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Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People
The Burden of Conservation in Modern China
State-led conservation transformed Gansu's landscape—rural communities bore the costs
From the 1940s to the 1960s, soil and water conservation measures transformed both the arid, erosion-prone environment of China’s Loess Plateau and the lives of rural people....
ISBN: 9780295753980
more detailsContaminated Country
Nuclear Colonialism and Aboriginal Resistance in Australia
The destruction and defiance that swirled around Australia's embrace of the world's nuclear order
Though a nonnuclear state, Australia was embroiled in the military and civilian nuclear energy programs of numerous global powers across the twentieth...
ISBN: 9780295753799
more detailsAmphibious Anthropologies
Living in Wet Environments
Muddying the divide between land and water
This interdisciplinary collection delves into the experiences and meanings of life in environments where water levels and availability are in constant flux. Amphibious Anthropologies brings together a global set...
ISBN: 9780295753898
more detailsCrafting a Tibetan Terroir
Winemaking in Shangri-La
How wine has transformed Tibetan land and lives
Set in the Sino-Tibetan border region renamed "Shangri-La" by the Chinese government for tourism promotion, Crafting a Tibetan Terroir considers how the deployment of the French notion of...
ISBN: 9780295753362
more detailsNature Unfurled
Asian American Environmental Histories
Explores Asian Americans' diverse connections and interactions with the natural world
As immigrants and laborers, gardeners and artists, activists and vacationers, Asian Americans have played, worked, and worshipped in nature for almost two centuries, forging enduring...
ISBN: 9780295753171
more detailsKernels of Resistance
Maize, Food Sovereignty, and Collective Power
The story of how Mesoamerican food activists faced down Monsanto . . . and won
Right before the 2014 World Cup, US trade interests pressured Guatemala’s legislature into lifting its national ban on genetically modified (GM) crops and...
ISBN: 9780295753300
more detailsAnimating Central Park
A Multispecies History
The entangled human and more-than-human histories of one of the world’s iconic urban green spaces
From deer and beavers to “free range” pigs and goats in and around Seneca Village, what we now know as Central...
ISBN: 9780295753195
more detailsViable Ecologies
Conservation and Coexistence on the Galápagos Islands
How humans living amid an abundance of diverse flora and fauna help us rethink conservation
Famous for their geographic isolation and high proportion of endemic species, the Galápagos Islands have long been promoted as the premier...
ISBN: 9780295753447
more detailsCleaning Up the Bomb Factory
Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest
Housewives, hard hats, and an Ohio town’s restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyard
In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio’s outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold...
ISBN: 9780295752556
more detailsBetween the Tides in California
Exploring Beaches and Tidepools
A fascinating guide to the secret worlds of the intertidal zone
The vast and diverse California coast is an awe-inspiring place of exploration and discovery, full of life forms that are shockingly unfamiliar. Intertidal fish that...
ISBN: 9780295752372
more detailsSeeds of Control
Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea
Conservation as a tool of colonialism in early twentieth-century Korea
Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905–1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the peninsula’s extensive mountains and forests....
ISBN: 9780295752860
more detailsFir and Empire
The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China
A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE
Restores China’s place in forest history
The disappearance of China’s naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country’s history, one often blamed on imperial demand for...
ISBN: 9780295752877
more detailsThe Toxic Ship
The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade
An infamous voyage explores the hazardous waste trade and environmental justice
In 1986 the Khian Sea, carrying thousands of tons of incinerator ash from Philadelphia, began a two-year journey, roaming the world's oceans in search of...
ISBN: 9780295751832
more detailsSustaining Natures
An Environmental Anthropology Reader
Highlights new directions in the field and topics of interest to undergraduate students
Environmental anthropology is at its best when firmly grounded in respectful and systematic ethnographic research and writing that spotlights uncommon perspectives on widely...
ISBN: 9780295751450
more detailsAn Ecological History of Modern China
Is environmental degradation an inevitable result of economic development? Can ecosystems be restored once government officials and the public are committed to doing so? These questions are at the heart of An Ecological History of...
ISBN: 9780295751719
more detailsFukushima Futures
Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape
A probe of the environmental and sociocultural effects of industrialization and nuclear disaster on coastal livelihoods
Both before and after the 2011 "Triple Disaster" of earthquake, tidal wave, and consequent meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear...
ISBN: 9780295751344
more detailsEcologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400-1900
Reveals how imperial power and local resistance have shaped landscapes
The perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have their own layered histories. So Sumit Guha argues in this sweeping examination of a pivotal five...
ISBN: 9780295751498
more detailsSettler Cannabis
From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California
Connects California cannabis production to the violence and dispossession of Indigenous land and people
Young countercultural back-to-the-land settlers flocked to northwestern California beginning in the 1960s, and by the 1970s, unregulated cannabis production proliferated on Indigenous...
ISBN: 9780295751566
more detailsBellwether Histories
Animals, Humans, and US Environments in Crisis
Explores ecological crises and extinctions that have shaped US history
A multispecies history of the globalized United States, Bellwether Histories reveals how animals have been ensnared in colonialism, capitalism, and environmental destruction as human decisions created...
ISBN: 9780295751429
more detailsInsect Histories of East Asia
Spotlights insects in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean history from the exalted to the despised
Interactions between people and animals are attracting overdue attention in diverse fields of scholarship, yet insects still creep within the shadows of...
ISBN: 9780295751801
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