Nature and the Orient: The Environmental History of South and Southeast Asia
Experts in history, history of science, archaeology, geography, and environmental studies examine the history of the region.
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science
On the Rim: Looking for the Grand Canyon
A cultural history of the Grand Canyon that investigates the intersections of culture, nature, and landscape.
American Forests: Nature, Culture, and Politics
An edited collection investigating the history of forestry in the United States from the nineteenth century onward.
Smelter Smoke in North America: The Politics of Transborder Pollution
Chronicles how industry developed a continental perspective in a shared regional space, the mineralized West, and how successful efforts of governments and citizens to protect the environment evolved.
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.
Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
A biography of American scientist and popular ecology writer, Rachel Carson.
Ellen Swallow Richards Accepted at MIT
The chemist is one of the pioneers of environmental hygiene.
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Sounds in the Sky: Listening for the Aurora Borealis at Fort Chipewyan
Changing Deserts: Integrating People and Their Environment
This book draws on the diversity of papers on deserts and drylands presented at the first Oxford Interdisciplinary Deserts Conference in March 2010.
Indigenous Knowledge
This book investigates how indigenous peoples from various cultures interact with and conceptualize their environments, past and present.