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Green Versus Gold: Sources in California's Environmental History
Green Versus Gold examines California’s environmental history, ranging from its Native American past to conflicts and movements of recent decades.
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Transformations of Middle Eastern Natural Environments: Legacies and Lessons
A collection on the environmental history of the Middle East that covers five broad themes: agriculture and pastoralism; water; nature and culture; marine environments, and environmental monitoring.
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Who Owns America? Social Conflict Over Property Rights
An interdisciplinary collection of essays that investigate the history of land ownership in the United States, including with reference to related conflicts with environmentalists.
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Pan's Travail: Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans
This environmental history of ancient civilizations seeks to demonstrate that environmental degradation is not exclusively a problem of the modern world.
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National Parks: Rights and the Common Good
An analysis of public parks in the United States, from a communitarian perspective.
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Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West
Rothman considers how the negative consequences of tourism development in the American West potentially outweigh the economic prosperity it brings to communities.
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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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Was wird bleiben? [What will remain?]
Reflects upon the short period of geological time during which humans have inhabited the Earth, raising questions as to how much time the human race may have left on the planet, and what might happen after the human race—and even Earth itself—disappears.