Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past. It traces the origins of the ...

When Henry David Thoreau went for his daily walk, he would consult his instincts on which directi...

An environmental explanation of Brazil's repeated failures to re-establish itself as a leading ru...

Challenging the conventional wisdom of Western environmental historians, this book examines the c...

This book explores political controversy to shed light on the working of political institutions a...

This book describes and analyses the environmental history of the mountain areas of the Mediterra...

This book tells the story of environmental destruction and human suffering during the Mao years.

John Wesley Powell, the great American explorer and environmental pioneer, embodied the energy, o...

Donald Worster's A Passion for Nature is the most complete account of the great conservationist a...

This is the first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, concentrati...

Shows the intersection of chemical warfare and pest control in the twentieth century.

A comparative history of the development of ideas about nature in the Anglo settler countries.

In the Wealth of Nature, the author offers a series of thoughtful, eloquent essays which lay out ...

Since 1492, when Columbus 'discovered' America, the world has been moving toward an increasingly ...

The West remains unsettled--by cultural habits, intellectual debate, and ecological conditions. I...

Since 1492, when Columbus 'discovered' America, the world has been moving toward an increasingly ...

Challenging the conventional wisdom of Western environmental historians, this book examines the c...

The book represents a significant new departure in the study of ecology and change in human society.

Eleven eloquent essays that convey the power of the new western history. Provides an introduction...

First published in 1999, this book is a comparative history of the development of ideas about nat...

This book tells the story of environmental destruction and human suffering during the Mao years.

Nature Incorporated explores the Industrial Revolution in New England from an environmental persp...

An environmental explanation of Brazil's repeated failures to re-establish itself as a leading ru...

When Europeans first reached the land that would become the United States they were staggered by ...

Taking as a case study the sixteenth-century history of a region of highland central Mexico, this...

Robert Harms explores nature and culture in the story of the Nunu.

Shows the intersection of chemical warfare and pest control in the twentieth century.

A comprehensive analysis of the biological experience of black slaves in the Caribbean.

The concern today about suburban sprawl is not new. In the decades after World War II, the spread...

The first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, especially its colo...

The living resources of California's rivers and coastal waters are among the most varied and prod...

In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disa...

Donald Worster engages with key political, economic, and environmental thinkers while presenting ...

In Worster's magisterial biography, John Muir's 'special self' is fully explored as is his extrao...

If the word 'hero' still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to Jo...

A groundbreaking history that explores how human desires have affected our relationship with the ...