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Turning to Nature in Germany: Hiking, Nudism, and Conservation, 1900–1940
Book excerpt from Turning to Nature in Germany by John Alexander Williams.
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Profit: An Environmental History
Book excerpt from Profit by former Rachel Carson Center fellow Mark Stoll.
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The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade
A book exploring the world of succulent collecting.
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Capturing Glaciers: A History of Repeat Photography and Global Warming
A book on the history of repeat photography of glaciers.
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Environment and Infrastructure: Challenges, Knowledge and Innovation from the Early Modern Period to the Present
An edited volume environment and infrastructure in the late middle ages to our days.
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Borne by the River: Canoeing the Delaware from Headwaters to Home
In a combination of different genres, this book accounts for life and environment along the Delaware River.
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“Green States in a Dirty World: 1975 and the Performance of Nordic Green Modern”
This book chapter examines the 1975 Nordic Council conference at Frostavallen in Sweden as a transnational media event which specifically sought to articulate a green modernity to the outside world.
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Air Conditioning
Hsuan Hsu’s Air Conditioning explores questions about culture, ethics, ecology, and social justice raised by the history and uneven distribution of climate controlling technologies.
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“(Inter)national and (Trans)regional Agents: The Coastal Sand Dunes of Mozambique”
This book chapter provides a transdisciplinary overview of the agents, agencies, and processes of change occurring in the Mozambican coast in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and their connection to international trends and global environmental concerns.
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“Actor-Networks, Conservation Treaties, and International Environmental History”
This book chapter argues that the actor-network approach is particularly suited for research in environmental history with its long-standing interest in more-than-human agency.