Shen Hou, Carson Fellow from February to July 2011, talks about her research project at the RCC. It explores the introduction, reception, and transformation of American ideas of nature conservation, and related practices in China.
This volume brings together, for the first time—in Italy or for an English-speaking audience—a collection of over 40 authors from this deep and broad tradition of Italian environmental writing.
George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms. David Lowenthal here offers fresh insights, from new sources, into Marsh’s career and shows his relevance today.
The contributions to this volume explore and uncover contemporary scholarship’s debt to the classical and medieval past.
A study of homesteading in America from the late nineteenth century to the present.
By looking at works by Native Americans, African Americans, European Americans, and others, and by considering forms of literature beyond the traditional nature essay, Myers expands our conceptions of environmental writing and environmental justice.
This book shifts through historical material, Salomon de Caus’s writings, and his extant landscape designs to determine what is fact and what is fiction in the life of this polymathic and prolific figure.
An anthology devoted to the United States’ earliest nature writing.
Eric Rutkow shows that trees were essential to the early years of the republic and indivisible from the country’s rise as both an empire and a civilization.
An early eco-apocalyptic novel set in the wilderness of post-urban England.
