Cahokia: America’s Ancient Metropolis
The ancient Native American city of Cahokia supported an estimated 20,000 residents at its height and featured scores of earthen mounds. However, by 1400 it was abandoned.
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Garbage Dreams
The award-winning Garbage Dreams follows three teenage boys growing up as ‘Zabaleen’ or garbage collectors in Cairo, Egypt.
Death in the Everglades: The Murder of Guy Bradley, America's First Martyr to Environmentalism
Death in the Everglades chronicles the demise of one of 20th-century Florida’s most enduring folk heroes.
Greening NAFTA: The North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation
In 1993, environmental objections to NAFTA resulted in the establishment of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), the first international organization created to address issues related to trade and the environment. Surprisingly, however, the CEC has received little scholarly attention, to date. This book is intended to fill that gap by providing a comprehensive analysis of how the organization has fulfilled, or failed to fulfill, its mandates.
Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains
Taking an environmental history perspective of the nothwestern plains, this book represents an excellent example of how to tie the human experience to the limits and opportunities presented by environment.
"Forest Conservation and the Reciprocal Timber Trade between New Zealand and New South Wales, 1880s–1920s"
The magnitude of this two-way trade created domestic timber shortages on both sides of the Tasman Sea, and stimulated conservation efforts from the early years of the twentieth century.
"Timber Trade on the Malabar Coast, c. 1780–1840"
State formation in south-west India at the end of the 18th century led to heavy exploitation of natural resources, particularly of the hardwood timbers of Travancore, Malabar, and Kanara…
"The Wasting of Wolin: Environmental Factors in the Downfall of a Medieval Baltic Town"
This medieval environmental history examines the tenth-century industrial and trade town of Wolin which grew rapidly on an island immediately off the northwestern coast of Poland.
"Frontier Foods for Late Medieval Consumers: Culture, Economy, Ecology"
This essay considers medieval long distance trades in grain, cattle, and preserved fish as antecedents to today’s globalised movements of foodstuffs.
"Editorial Introduction" to Environment and History 7, no. 2, "Beyond Local, Natural Ecosystems" special issue (May, 2001)
With this issue of Environment and History, van Dam contributes to the thesis that the expansion of trade systems and the emergence of large-scale human intervention in (formerly) natural ecosystems is a continuous, interactive process with a long history, long before the Industrial Revolution or the discovery of the New Worlds.