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  • Make It a Green Peace!: The Rise of Countercultural Environmentalism

    The Rise of Countercultural Environmentalism

    by Frank Zelko ...
    The emergence of Greenpeace in the late 1960s from a loose-knit group of anti-nuclear and anti-whaling activists fundamentally changed the nature of environmentalism--its purpose, philosophy, and tactics--around the world. And yet there has been no comprehensive objective history of Greenpeace's origins-until now. Make It a Green Peace! draws upon meeting minutes, internal correspondence, ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • A Field on Fire

    The Future of Environmental History

    by Mark D. Hersey, Ted Steinberg, Marco Armiero, Kevin C. Armitage, Brian C. Black, Lisa M. Brady, Karl Boyd Brooks, Robert Wellman Campbell, Brian Allen Drake0, Sterling Evans1, Sara M. Gregg2, Shen Hou3, Neil M. Maher4, Christof Mauch5, Daniel T. Rodgers6, Adam Rome7, Edmund Russell8, Mikko Saikku9, Frank Zelko0 ...
    A frank and engaging exploration of the burgeoning academic field of environmental historyInspired by the pioneering work of preeminent environmental historian Donald Worster, the contributors to A Field on Fire: The Future of Environmental History reflect on the past and future of this discipline. Featuring wide-ranging essays by leading environmental historians from the United States, Europe, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Environmental Activism on the Ground

    Small Green and Indigenous Organizing

    by Jessica DeWitt, Sterling Evans, Zoltan Grossman, Mark Leeming, Mark McLaughlin, John Welch, Anna Willow, Frank Zelko ...
    Series Book 9 - Canadian History and Environment
    Environmental Activism on the Ground draws upon a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship to examine small scale, local environmental activism, paying particular attention to Indigenous experiences. It illuminates the questions that are central to the ongoing evolution of the environmental movement while reappraising the history and character of late twentieth and early twenty-first ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Shades of Green

    Environment Activism Around the Globe

    by Frank Zelko, Mahesh Ranagarjan, Sandra Lynn Chaney, Jane Carruthers, Peter Ho, Daniel J. Klooster, J. Christopher Brown ...
    Series series International Environmental History
    Shades of Green examines the impact of political, economic, religious, and scientific institutions on environmental activism around the world. The book highlights the diversity of national, regional and international environmental activism, showing that the term "environmentalism" covers an entire range of perceptions, values and interests. It demonstrates that each instance of environmental ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

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  • What is Environmental History?

    by J. Donald Hughes ...
    Series series What is History?
    What is environmental history? It is a kind of history that seeks understanding of human beings as they have lived, worked, and thought in relationship to the rest of nature through the changes brought by time.In this new edition of his seminal student textbook, J. Donald Hughes provides a masterful overview of the thinkers, topics, and perspectives that have come to constitute the exciting ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Environment at the Margins

    Literary and Environmental Studies in Africa

    Edited by Byron Caminero-Santangelo, Garth Myers ...
    Environment at the Margins brings literary and environmental studies into a robust interdisciplinary dialogue, challenging dominant ideas about nature, conservation, and development in Africa and exploring alternative narratives offered by writers and environmental thinkers. The essays bring together scholarship in geography, anthropology, and environmental history with the study of African and ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • After Europe

    by Ivan Krastev ...
    In this provocative book, renowned public intellectual Ivan Krastev reflects on the future of the European Union—and its potential lack of a future. With far-right nationalist parties on the rise across the continent and the United Kingdom planning for Brexit, the European Union is in disarray and plagued by doubts as never before. Krastev includes chapters devoted to Europe's major problems ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Canada's 1960s

    The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era

    by Bryan Palmer ...
    Rebellious youth, the Cold War, New Left radicalism, Pierre Trudeau, Red Power, Quebec's call for Revolution, Marshall McLuhan: these are just some of the major forces and figures that come to mind at the slightest mention of the 1960s in Canada. Focusing on the major movements and personalities of the time, as well as the lasting influence of the period, Canada's 1960s examines the legacy of this ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • The Great Acceleration

    An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945

    by J. R. McNeill, Peter Engelke ...
    The Earth has entered a new age—the Anthropocene—in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth century, the accelerating pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a massive uncontrolled experiment. The Great Acceleration explains its causes and consequences, highlighting the role of energy systems, as ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Radicals for Capitalism

    A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement

    by Brian Doherty ...
    On Wall Street, in the culture of high tech, in American government: Libertarianism -- the simple but radical idea that the only purpose of government is to protect its citizens and their property against direct violence and threat -- has become an extremely influential strain of thought. But while many books talk about libertarian ideas, none until now has explored the history of this uniquely ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ecofeminism

    by Vandana Shiva, Maria Mies ...
    Series series Critique Influence Change
    This groundbreaking work remains as relevant today as when it was when first published. Two of Zed's best-known authors argue that ecological destruction and industrial catastrophes constitute a direct threat to everyday life, the maintenance of which has been made the particular responsibility of women. In both industrialized societies and the developing countries, the new wars the world is ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Sounding of the Whale

    Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century

    by D. Graham Burnett ...
    "This wonderful book documents the interplays among science, conservation and politics in the evolving career of the whale over the last century." —William Perrin, Senior Scientist for Marine Mammals at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries ServiceFrom biblical times, whales have breached in the human imagination as looming figures of terror, power, confusion, and mystery. In the ... Read more

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