An interview with Joachim Radkau, professor of history at the University of Bielefeld in Germany and author of Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment..
An overview, in German, of the discipline of environmental history.
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.
This small collection of essays by Finnish scholars establishes the basic tenets of environmental history as a field of inquiry.
First published in 1933, The People’s Forests makes a passionate case for the public ownership and management of the nation’s forests in the face of generations of devastating practices.
In Driven Wild, Paul Sutter traces the intellectual and cultural roots of the modern wilderness movement from about 1910 through the 1930s, with tightly drawn portraits of four Wilderness Society founders—Aldo Leopold, Robert Sterling Yard, Benton MacKaye, and Bob Marshall. Each man brought a different background and perspective to the advocacy for wilderness preservation, yet each was spurred by a fear of what growing numbers of automobiles, aggressive road building, and the meteoric increase in Americans turning to nature for their leisure would do to the country’s wild places.
Faith in Nature traces the history of environmentalism—and its moral thrust—from its roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism through the Progressive Era to the present.
In this inaugural issue of its journal, the radical environmentalist group Earth First! announces its principles and platform.
This issue of Earth First! includes articles on RARE II (Roadless Area Review and Evaluations) and the US Forest Service’s alleged plans to develop protected wilderness areas.
This issue of the rebooted journal features reports on direct action campaigns in the United States and the United Kingdom, criticisms of President Clinton’s Forest Plan, and more.
