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Cleaning 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In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio’s outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold...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 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 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 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
more detailsCharged
A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future
Winner of the 24th Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize
Finalist for the 2023 Cundill History Prize
Gold Medal Recipient, Nautilus Book Awards, Sustainability
To achieve fossil fuel independence,...
ISBN: 9780295752181
more detailsInside the World of Climate Change Skeptics
An extraordinary look into doubt, denial, and distrust
As wildfires rip across the western United States and sea levels rise along coastal cities from Louisiana to Alaska, some people nevertheless reject the mainstream scientific consensus on...
ISBN: 9780295751306
more detailsThe Camphor Tree and the Elephant
Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia
Uncovers a spiritual dimension in the transition to the Anthropocene
What is the role of religion in shaping interactions and relations between the human and nonhuman in nature? Why are Muslim and Christian organizations generally not...
ISBN: 9780295751184
more detailsBetween the Tides in Washington and Oregon
Exploring Beaches and Tidepools
Take a closer look into the secret worlds of the intertidal zone
A spectacular variety of life flourishes between the ebb and flow of high and low tide. Anemones talk to each other through chemical signaling,...
ISBN: 9780295749969
more detailsThe Cultivated Forest
People and Woodlands in Asian History
Synthesizes multiple perspectives on Asian forests from early history to the near present
Forests have histories that need to be told. This examination of wood and woodlands in East and Southeast Asia brings together case studies...
ISBN: 9780295750903
more detailsSpawning Modern Fish
Transnational Comparison in the Making of Japanese Salmon
Winner of the Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize from the Society for East Asian Anthropology
Multispecies ethnography turns its attention to the bodies of fish
Since the mid-nineteenth century, agricultural development and fisheries management in northern Japan have...
ISBN: 9780295750392
more detailsGoverning Water in India
Inequality, Reform, and the State
Intensifying droughts and competing pressures on water resources foreground water scarcity as an urgent concern of the global climate change crisis. In India, individual, industrial, and agricultural water demands exacerbate inequities of access and expose...
ISBN: 9780295750439
more detailsOceanographers and the Cold War
Disciples of Marine Science
A political history of twentieth-century oceanography
Oceanographers and the Cold War is about patronage, politics, and the community of scientists. It is the first book to examine the study of the oceans during the Cold War...
ISBN: 9780295751276
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