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Tutira
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 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 detailsThe Wilderness Writings of Howard Zahniser
Howard Zahniser (1906–1964), executive secretary of The Wilderness Society and editor of The Living Wilderness from 1945 to 1964, is arguably the person most responsible for drafting and promoting the Wilderness Act in 1964. The...
ISBN: 9780295995625
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 detailsNature Next Door
Cities and Trees in the American Northeast
The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees. Nature Next Door argues that the growth of cities, the construction of parks, the transformation of farming, the boom in tourism, and changes...
ISBN: 9780295993317
more detailsGeorge Perkins Marsh
Prophet of Conservation
George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms. David Lowenthal here offers fresh insights, from new sources, into Marsh’s career and...
ISBN: 9780295983158
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 detailsThe Republic of Nature
An Environmental History of the United States
In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered...
ISBN: 9780295993294
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
more detailsWilderness Forever
Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act
Winner of the Forest History Society's 2006 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award
As a central figure in the American wilderness preservation movement in the mid-twentieth century, Howard Zahniser (1906-1964) was the person most responsible for the...
ISBN: 9780295987071
more detailsThe Rhine
An Eco-Biography, 1815–2000
The Rhine River is Europe’s most important commercial waterway, channeling the flow of trade among Switzerland, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. In this innovative study, Mark Cioc focuses on the river from the moment when...
ISBN: 9780295985008
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 detailsWhere Land and Water Meet
A Western Landscape Transformed
Water and land interrelate in surprising and ambiguous ways, and riparian zones, where land and water meet, have effects far outside their boundaries. Using the Malheur Basin in southeastern Oregon as a case study, this...
ISBN: 9780295984995
more detailsDriven Wild
How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement
In its infancy, the movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States was motivated less by perceived threats from industrial and agricultural activities than by concern over the impacts of automobile owners seeking recreational...
ISBN: 9780295982205
more detailsVacationland
Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country
Winner of the Western Writers of America 2014 Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction, Contemporary
Mention the Colorado high country today and vacation imagery springs immediately to mind: mountain scenery, camping, hiking, skiing, and world-renowned resorts...
ISBN: 9780295994338
more detailsFaith in Nature
Environmentalism as Religious Quest
The human impulse to religion--the drive to explain the world, humans, and humans’ place in the universe – can be seen to encompass environmentalism as an offshoot of the secular, material faith in human reason...
ISBN: 9780295985565
more detailsA Storied Wilderness
Rewilding the Apostle Islands
The Apostle Islands are a solitary place of natural beauty, with red sandstone cliffs, secluded beaches, and a rich and unique forest surrounded by the cold, blue waters of Lake Superior. But this seemingly pristine...
ISBN: 9780295992921
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