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Studies in Environment and History Series

44 primary works • 44 total works
The books in this series study the ways in which the natural environment and human societies have interacted throughout history and around the world. All human societies have by necessity had a strong relationship with their ecosystems, through behavior that has been variously adapting, exploiting, transcending, destroying, or preserving. A key com…
The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History
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3.20 · 5 Ratings · published 1984 · 5 editions
This study focuses on the black biological experie…

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    The Fisherman's Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980
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    3.58     · 24 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1986 · 5 editions
    The living resources of California's rivers and co…

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    Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955–1985
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    3.85     · 13 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1987 · 5 editions
    Bringing together a wide range of environmental is…

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    Games against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa
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    3.75     · 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1987 · 7 editions
    In this book, Robert Harms makes an important adva…

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    The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on Modern Environmental History
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    4.07     · 14 Ratings · published 1989 · 6 editions
    Since 1492, when Columbus "discovered" America, th…

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    The Mountains of the Mediterranean World: An Environmental History
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    3.67     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1992 · 2 editions
    This book describes and analyses the environmental…

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    A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico
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    3.63     · 84 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 1994 · 12 editions
    This is a book about the biological conquest of th…

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    The Danish Revolution, 1500–1800: An Ecohistorical Interpretation
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · published 1994 · 5 editions
    This book tells the story of a fertile European co…

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    Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China
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    3.86     · 21 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1994 · 9 editions
    Challenging the conventional wisdom of Western env…

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    The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920
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    3.76     · 176 Ratings · 16 Reviews · published 2000 · 17 editions
    The Destruction of the Bison explains the decline …

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    Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China
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    3.79     · 145 Ratings · 13 Reviews · published 2001 · 12 editions
    In clear and compelling prose, Judith Shapiro rela…

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    The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism
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    3.71     · 242 Ratings · 15 Reviews · published 2001 · 13 editions
    The Bulldozer in the Countryside is the first scho…

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    Environment, Power, and Injustice: A South African History
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    4.14     · 7 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1999 · 9 editions
    This book presents the socio-environmental history…

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    Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
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    3.98     · 1847 Ratings · 129 Reviews · published 1986 · 38 editions
    People of European descent form the bulk of the po…

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    Fish versus Power: An Environmental History of the Fraser River
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    3.44     · 9 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2004 · 10 editions
    Amid contemporary debates over large dam developme…

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    The Green and the Brown: A History of Conservation in Nazi Germany
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    3.69     · 13 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2002 · 10 editions
    This study provides the first comprehensive discus…

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    The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900–1938
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    4.07     · 28 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2006 · 7 editions
    An exploration of the social and environmental con…

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    Humanity's Burden: A Global History of Malaria
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    3.75     · 24 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2008 · 10 editions
    Humanity’s Burden provides a panoramic overview of…

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    Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth
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    3.77     · 43 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2011 · 12 editions
    We tend to see history and evolution springing fro…

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    Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History
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    3.51     · 37 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2011 · 11 editions
    In one of the first ever environmental histories o…

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    The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
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    4.04     · 56 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2011 · 8 editions
    The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottom…

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    Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History
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    3.81     · 74 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 2012 · 10 editions
    For centuries, bird guano has played a pivotal rol…

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    Environmental Infrastructure in African History: Examining the Myth of Natural Resource Management in Namibia
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · published 2013 · 7 editions
    Environmental Infrastructure in African History of…

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    An Environmental History of Russia
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    3.50     · 10 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2013 · 10 editions
    The former Soviet empire spanned eleven time zones…

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    Climate Change and the Course of Global History: A Rough Journey
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    3.70     · 23 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2014 · 10 editions
    Climate Change and the Course of Global History pr…

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    Pemmican Empire: Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780–1882
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    3.82     · 17 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2014 · 5 editions
    In the British territories of the North American G…

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    The Ecology of War in China: Henan Province, the Yellow River, and Beyond, 1938–1950
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    3.85     · 13 Ratings · published 2014 · 7 editions
    This book explores the interplay between war and t…

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    Forests in Revolutionary France: Conservation, Community, and Conflict, 1669-1848
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2015 · 9 editions
    This book investigates the economic, strategic, an…

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    Waste Into Weapons: Recycling in Britain During the Second World War
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    4.20     · 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2015 · 5 editions
    During the Second World War, the United Kingdom fa…

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    Empire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests
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    3.54     · 13 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2015 · 5 editions
    The battles to protect ancient forests and spotted…

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    Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China's Borderlands
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    3.29     · 7 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2015 · 5 editions
    In this book, David Bello offers a new and radical…

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    The Nature of Soviet Power: An Arctic Environmental History
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    3.85     · 13 Ratings · 6 editions
    During the twentieth century, the Soviet Union tur…

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    Feral Animals in the American South: An Evolutionary History
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    4.00     · 9 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 5 editions
    The relationship between humans and domestic anima…

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    The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128
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    4.43     · 23 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2016 · 6 editions
    On July 19, 1048, the Yellow River breached its ba…

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    The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past
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    3.86     · 21 Ratings · 4 Reviews · 5 editions
    New insights into the microbiome, epigenetics, and…

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    Greyhound Nation: A Coevolutionary History of England, 1200–1900
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    3.00     · 5 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 5 editions
    Edmund Russell's much-anticipated new book examine…

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    The Nature of Disaster in China: The 1931 Yangzi River Flood
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    4.50     · 16 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2019 · 7 editions
    In 1931, China suffered a catastrophic flood that …

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    The Frigid Golden Age: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560 - 1720
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    3.78     · 50 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2018 · 5 editions
    Dagomar Degroot offers the first detailed analysis…

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    Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta
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    3.83     · 30 Ratings · 4 Reviews · 6 editions
    What happens when a distant colonial power tries t…

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    Snowshoe Country: An Environmental and Cultural History of Winter in the Early American Northeast
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    4.12     · 17 Ratings · 4 Reviews · 5 editions
    Snowshoe Country is an environmental and cultural …

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    Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia's Aral Sea Basin
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    3.94     · 17 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 5 editions
    The drying up of the Aral Sea - a major environmen…

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    The Guts of the Matter: A Global History of Human Waste and Infectious Intestinal Disease
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    4.00     · 4 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 5 editions
    The Guts of the Matter is a study of our oldest ec…

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    The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s
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    4.33     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 3 editions
    Beginning in the 1870s, migrant groups from Russia…

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    The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World
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    4.00     · 3 Ratings · 5 editions
    What is the source of Norway's culture of environm…

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