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Roundtable Review of Evolutionary History by Edmund Russell
Russell employs the notion of the coevolution of plants, animals, and microorganisms to explain the causes and consequences of a broad range of events.
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Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
A biography of American scientist and popular ecology writer, Rachel Carson.
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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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Nature and the Orient: The Environmental History of South and Southeast Asia
Experts in history, history of science, archaeology, geography, and environmental studies examine the history of the region.
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Roundtable Review of The Passage to Cosmos by Laura Dassow Walls
In this book, Laura Dassow Walls describes how the explorer Alexander von Humboldt developed his unitary worldview.
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The Kruger National Park: A Social and Political History
Do we owe the world-famous Kruger National Park to the triumph of “good” conservationists over the forces of “evil” commercial exploitation? Environmental historian Jane Carruthers investigates.
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Roundtable Review of In the Field, Among the Feathered by Thomas R. Dunlap
Thomas R. Dunlap discusses the development of birding and its long-term public influence in the USA through the history of field guides.
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Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930
A review of a collection of essays on the history and adventure of American exploration with several references to sophisticated analyses of trigonometric surveys, the science of empire building, and natural history exchange networks.
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Horizontal Yellow: Nature and History in the Near Southwest
Horizontal Yellow is a book about history and nature and humankind’s impact on nature in the Near Southwest, the region of yellowed grass stretching from the Rocky Mountains’ eastern range to Louisiana’s bayou country, and from southern Kansas to the Gulf Coast.
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Gesellschaft und Ernährung um 1000: Eine Archäologie des Essens
Gesellschaft und Ernahrung is a lavishly illustrated catalog of an exhibition on the history of food that ran at the Food Museum in Vevey, Switzerland, in 2000.