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Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940-2000
The second volume of Robbins’s environmental history of Oregon.
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Fish versus Power: An Environmental History of the Fraser River
An environmental history of the Fraser River (British Columbia) and the attempts to dam it for power and to defend it for salmon.
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Troubles with Turtles: Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island
Troubles with Turtles provides an enthusiastic and provocative anthropological account of human-environment relationships in the island community of the village Vassilikos, Zakynthos, Greece.
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Roundtable Review of Making a Green Machine by Finn Arne Jørgensen
Peter Thorsheim, Heike Weber, Tim Cooper, and Carl A. Zimring discuss Finn Arne Jørgensen’s book on the Scandinavian beverage container deposit-refund system.
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The Land We Share: Private Property and the Common Good
Is private ownership an inviolate right that individuals can wield as they see fit?
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Thinking about the Environment: Our Debt to the Classical and Medieval Past
The contributions to this volume explore and uncover contemporary scholarship’s debt to the classical and medieval past.
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A Venetian Island: Environment, History and Change in Burano
Based on ethnographic and archival data, this in-depth study of the Venetian island of Burano shows how its inhabitants develop their sense of a distinct identity.
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The Eighteenth-Century Climate of Jamaica Derived from the Journals of Thomas Thistlewood, 1750-1786
Examines the weather records of Thomas Thistlewood, a large property and slave-owner in eighteenth-century Jamaica.
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Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II South
On the use, abuse, and regulation of pesticides from World War II until 1970.
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Umwelt-Geschichte: Arbeitsfelder, Forschungsansätze, Perspektiven [Environmental History: Fields, Approaches, Perspectives]
An interdisciplinary collection of essays that investigates the various approaches and research fields of environmental history.