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Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Endowment
Established by Jan and Jack Creighton along with members of the Weyerhaeuser family, this endowment supports Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books, a series of publications dealing with significant environmental issues
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Bringing Whales Ashore
Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan
Japan today defends its controversial whaling expeditions by invoking tradition—but what was the historical reality? In examining the techniques and impacts of whaling during the Tokugawa period (1603–1868), Jakobina Arch shows that the organized, shore-based...
ISBN: 9780295748108
more detailsCultivating Nature
The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape
Winner of the 2019 Turku Book Award from the European Society for Environmental History
The Albufera Natural Park, an area ten kilometers south of Valencia that is widely regarded as the birthplace of paella, has long...
ISBN: 9780295748092
more detailsSeeds of Control
Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial 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. Under the banner of “forest love,” the colonial government...
ISBN: 9780295747453
more detailsFir and Empire
The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China
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 lumber. China’s early modern forest history is typically viewed...
ISBN: 9780295747330
more detailsCommunist Pigs
An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall
The pig played a fundamental role in the German Democratic Republic’s attempts to create and sustain a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles. By the mid-1980s, East Germany produced more pork per capita...
ISBN: 9780295747309
more detailsWetlands in a Dry Land
More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin
In the name of agriculture, urban growth, and disease control, humans have drained, filled, or otherwise destroyed nearly 87 percent of the world’s wetlands over the past three centuries. Unintended consequences include biodiversity loss, poor...
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 detailsFire
A Brief History
Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pyne—named...
ISBN: 9780295746180
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 detailsEnvironmental Justice in Postwar America
A Documentary Reader
In the decades after World War II, the American economy entered a period of prolonged growth that created unprecedented affluence—but these developments came at the cost of a host of new environmental problems. Unsurprisingly, a...
ISBN: 9780295743691
more detailsTutira
The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station
ISBN: 9780295996479
more detailsNative Seattle
Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
This updated edition of Native Seattle brings the indigenous story to the present day and puts the movement of recognizing Seattle's Native past into a broader context. Native Seattle focuses on the experiences of local...
ISBN: 9780295741345
more detailsMaking Climate Change History
Documents from Global Warming's Past
This collection pulls together key documents from the scientific and political history of climate change, including congressional testimony, scientific papers, newspaper editorials, court cases, and international declarations. Far more than just a compendium of source...
ISBN: 9780295741390
more detailsNuclear Reactions
Documenting American Encounters with Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Reactions explores the nuclear consensus that emerged in post–World War II America, characterized by widespread support for a diplomatic and military strategy based on nuclear weapons and a vision of economic growth that welcomed...
ISBN: 9780295999623
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
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