Auer, Matthew R., ed. Restoring Cursed Earth: Appraising Environmental Policy Reforms in Eastern Europe and Russia. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
Highland Sanctuary unravels the complex interactions among agriculture, herding, forestry, the colonial state, and the landscape in the Usambara mountains of Tanzania.
Anderson argues that livestock were a central factor in the cultural clash between colonists and Indians as well as a driving force in the expansion west.
Ferrieres, Madeleine. Sacred Cow, Mad Cow: A History of Food Fears. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.
A study of social vulnerability to climate in Switzerland and in the Czech Lands during the early 1770s.
Emily O’Gorman examines the ways in which ducks as well as people negotiated the changing water landscapes of the Murrumbidgee River caused by the creation of rice paddies.
Anna Tsing’s essay opens a door to multispecies landscapes as protagonists for histories of the world.
The philosopher Timothy Morton is using the Oedipal logic to explain the human shift from a creature inferior to nature to a geophysical force on a planetary scale and to think about possible solutions for an accordingly upcoming bitter end.
Presents state-of-the-art research on the impact of ongoing and anticipated economic policy and institutional reforms on agricultural development and sustainable rural resource in two East-Asian transition (and developing) economies—China and Vietnam.
Brian Donahue offers an innovative, accessible, and authoritative history of the early farming practices of Concord, Massachusetts.
