The environmental consequences of the US military presence from World War II through the end of t...

The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of ...

An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush

A concise environmental history of the near-extinction of the bison from the mid-eighteenth centu...

Finalist for the 2014 Weber-Clements Book Prize for the Best Non-fiction Book on Southwestern Ame...

Two centuries ago, native New Yorker Washington Irving exploded onto the literary scene of Europe...

The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of ...

Mortal Remains introduces new methods of analyzing death and its crucial meanings over a 240-year...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-140) and index.

'[A] monumental dual biography . . . a distinguished work, combining deep research, a pleasing na...

Essays that investigate issues of race, class, consumption, and the body in an array of urban pla...

'Told with authority and style. . . Crisply summarizing the Adamses' legacy, the authors stress p...

'In the twenty-first century, precious little has been written about America's first professional...

Offers a new history of manifest destiny that breaks from triumphalist narratives of US territori...