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The Adirondacks: A History of America's First Wilderness
A comprehensive history of the Adirondack mountain range in the eastern United States.
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The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice
A critique of environmental justice movements in the United States.
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Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity
A cultural critique of zoos that seeks to problematize their role as a sanctuary for animals.
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Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
An interdisciplinary explanation of why Europeans and people of European descent have come to control so much of the world’s wealth.
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The Presidio: From Army Post to National Park
How a site in San Francisco that had been a military base for much of its modern history became a unique, urban national park.
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Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: From Cooperation to Confrontation
An account of how water pollution control policy emerged during the seminal decades of environmental activism, with reference to the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world: the Great Lakes.
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The Amazon River Forest: A Natural History of Plants, Animals, and People
An investigation, based on both fieldwork and historical sources, of changing land use practices in the Amazonian floodplain forest.
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Who Owns the Environment?
A collection of essays that, as a whole, considers strong private property rights as crucial for environmental protection.
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Smelter Smoke in North America: The Politics of Transborder Pollution
Chronicles how industry developed a continental perspective in a shared regional space, the mineralized West, and how successful efforts of governments and citizens to protect the environment evolved.
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The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Coast Indians 1774–1874
An investigation into the introduction of European diseases to native peoples on the Pacific Northwest coast (North America).