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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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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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Rioting Townsmen Destroy Abbey’s Salmon Weir in Medieval Scotland

by Richard Hoffmann

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Arcadia, 2012, no. 5

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"Selling the 'Untold Wealth' in the Seas: A Social and Cultural History of the South-east Australian Shelf Trawling Industry, 1915–1961"

Between 1915 and 1961 a state-run trawling industry operated on the South-east Australian shelf targeting tiger flathead (Neoplatycephalus richardsoni) as its principal species…

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"Overseeing the Family of Whitefishes: The Priorities and Debates of Coregonid Management on America's Great Lakes, 1870–2000"

Chiarappa, Michael J. “Overseeing the Family of Whitefishes: The Priorities and Debates of Coregonid Management on America’s Great Lakes, 1870–2000.” Environment and History 11, no.2 (May, 2005): 163–94. doi:10.3197/096734005774434566.

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"'The Common Cormorant or Shag Lays Eggs Inside a Paper Bag.' A Cultural Ecology of Fish-eating Birds in Western Australia"

This paper builds a history of the rise of ecological awareness of the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia through the cultural perceptions of fish-eating birds.