This book presents the socio-environmental history of black people around Kuruman, on the edge of the Kalahari in South Africa.

Highland Sanctuary unravels the complex interactions among agriculture, herding, forestry, the colonial state, and the landscape in the Usambara mountains of Tanzania.

Richards shows how humans—whether clearing forests or draining wetlands, transporting bacteria, insects, and livestock; hunting species to extinction, or reshaping landscapes—altered the material well-being of the natural world along with their own.

Brian Donahue offers an innovative, accessible, and authoritative history of the early farming practices of Concord, Massachusetts.