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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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Animating 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 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In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio’s outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold...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 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
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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 detailsCapturing Glaciers
A History of Repeat Photography and Global Warming
Explores the photography of climate change
Photographs do not simply speak for themselves. Their meanings are built through interpretive frameworks that shift over time. Today, photographs of receding glaciers are one of the most well recognized...
ISBN: 9780295752020
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 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 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 detailsBringing 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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