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Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books explore human relationships with natural environments in all their variety and complexity. They seek to cast new light on the ways that natural systems affect human communities, the ways that people affect the environments of which they are a part, and the ways that different cultural conceptions of nature profoundly shape our sense of the world around us.
Series editor: Paul S. Sutter, professor of history at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Founding editor: William Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Please send book proposals to: Mike Baccam
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Seeds 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
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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 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 detailsPeople of the Ecotone
Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America
Winner of the 2023 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize for best book in western environmental history from the Western History Association
Indigenous power in a significant cultural and ecological borderland
In People of the Ecotone, Robert Morrissey...
ISBN: 9780295750880
more detailsCommunist Pigs
An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall
The pig played a key role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles. By the mid-1980s, East Germany produced more pork per capita than West...
ISBN: 9780295750699
more detailsFootprints of War
Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam
When American forces arrived in Vietnam, they found themselves embedded in historic village and frontier spaces already shaped by many past conflicts. American bases and bombing targets followed spatial and political logics influenced by the...
ISBN: 9780295749730
more detailsWetlands in a Dry Land
More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin
Winner of the Inaugural Book Prize from the Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand Environmental History Network
A compelling environmental history of a critical ecosystem under threat
In the name of agriculture, urban growth, and disease control, humans...
ISBN: 9780295749150
more detailsThe Organic Profit
Rodale and the Making of Marketplace Environmentalism
Where did the curious idea of buying one’s way to sustainability come from? In no small part, the answer lies in the story of entrepreneurial health reformer J. I. Rodale, his son Robert Rodale, and...
ISBN: 9780295745015
more detailsSeismic City
An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake
On April 18, 1906, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco region, igniting fires that burned half the city. The disaster in all its elements — earthquake, fires, and recovery — profoundly disrupted the urban...
ISBN: 9780295746098
more detailsSmell Detectives
An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America
What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenth-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary...
ISBN: 9780295746104
more detailsDefending Giants
The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics
Giant redwoods are American icons, paragons of grandeur, exceptionalism, and endurance. They are also symbols of conflict and negotiation, remnants of environmental battles over the limits of industrialization, profiteering, and globalization.
Since the middle of...
ISBN: 9780295745732
more detailsThe City Is More Than Human
An Animal History of Seattle
Winner of the 2017 Virginia Marie Folkins Award, Association of King County Historical Organizations (AKCHO)
Winner of the 2017 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize, Western History Association
Seattle would not exist without animals. Animals have played a...
ISBN: 9780295745718
more detailsBehind the Curve
Science and the Politics of Global Warming
In 1958, Charles David Keeling began measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. His project kicked off a half century of research that has expanded...
ISBN: 9780295995601
more detailsWhales and Nations
Environmental Diplomacy on the High Seas
Before commercial whaling was outlawed in the 1980s, diplomats, scientists, bureaucrats, environmentalists, and sometimes even whalers themselves had attempted to create an international regulatory framework that would allow for a sustainable whaling industry. In Whales...
ISBN: 9780295995595
more detailsWilderburbs
Communities on Nature's Edge
Since the 1950s, the housing developments in the West that historian Lincoln Bramwell calls “wilderburbs” have offered residents both the pleasures of living in nature and the creature comforts of the suburbs. Remote from cities...
ISBN: 9780295995632
more detailsLoving Nature, Fearing the State
Environmentalism and Antigovernment Politics before Reagan
A "conservative environmental tradition" in America may sound like a contradiction in terms, but as Brian Allen Drake shows in Loving Nature, Fearing the State, right-leaning politicians and activists have shaped American environmental consciousness since...
ISBN: 9780295995205
more detailsPests in the City
Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats
From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions. In Pests in the City, Dawn Day Biehler argues that the urban ecologies that...
ISBN: 9780295994826
more detailsCar Country
An Environmental History
For most people in the United States, going almost anywhere begins with reaching for the car keys. This is true, Christopher Wells argues, because the United States is Car Country—a nation dominated by landscapes that...
ISBN: 9780295994291
more detailsTangled Roots
The Appalachian Trail and American Environmental Politics
The Appalachian Trail, a thin ribbon of wilderness running through the densely populated eastern United States, offers a refuge from modern society and a place apart from human ideas and institutions. But as environmental historian—and...
ISBN: 9780295994307
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