The author argues that the analysis of historical energy systems can provide an explanation for the basic patterns of different social formations.
The world is full of environmental injustices and inequalities; yet few European historians have tackled these subjects head on, nor have they explored their relationships with social inequalities.
This book links the environmental movement that emerged in the United States during the 1960s to earlier progressive movements and considers the importance of race, ethnicity, class, and gender issues for the history and evolution of environmentalism.
An environmental history of waterways in the United States.
James C. Williams’s history of energy development and use in California.
Green Versus Gold examines California’s environmental history, ranging from its Native American past to conflicts and movements of recent decades.
A collection on the environmental history of the Middle East that covers five broad themes: agriculture and pastoralism; water; nature and culture; marine environments, and environmental monitoring.
Rothman considers how the negative consequences of tourism development in the American West potentially outweigh the economic prosperity it brings to communities.
A comprehensive history of the Adirondack mountain range in the eastern United States.
An edited collection investigating the history of forestry in the United States from the nineteenth century onward.
