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  • The Environment in American History

    Nature and the Formation of the United States

    by Jeff Crane ...
    From pre-European contact to the present day, people living in what is now the United States have constantly manipulated their environment. The use of natural resources – animals, plants, minerals, water, and land – has produced both prosperity and destruction, reshaping the land and human responses to it. The Environment in American History is a clear and comprehensive account that vividly shows ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Nature of Hope

    Grassroots Organizing, Environmental Justice, and Political Change

    Edited by Char Miller, Jeff Crane ...
    Series series Intersections in Environmental Justice
    The Nature of Hope focuses on the dynamics of environmental activism at the local level, examining the environmental and political cultures that emerge in the context of conflict. The book considers how ordinary people have coalesced to demand environmental justice and highlights the powerful role of intersectionality in shaping the on-the-ground dynamics of popular protest and social change ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Natural Protest

    Essays on the History of American Environmentalism

    Edited by Michael Egan, Jeff Crane ...
    Series series New Directions in American History
    From Jamestown to 9/11, concerns about the landscape, husbanding of natural resources, and the health of our environment have been important to the American way of life. Natural Protest is the first collection of original essays to offer a cohesive social and political examination of environmental awareness, activism, and justice throughout American history. Editors Michael Egan and Jeff Crane ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Down to Earth

    Nature's Role in American History

    by Ted Steinberg ...
    A tour de force of writing and analysis, Down to Earth offers a sweeping history of our nation, one that for the first time places the environment at the very center of our story. Writing with marvelous clarity, historian Ted Steinberg sweeps across the centuries, re-envisioning the story of America as he recounts how the environment has played a key role in virtually every social, economic, and ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Denying the Source

    The Crisis of First Nations Water Rights

    by Merrell-Ann Phare ...
    Series series An RMB Manifesto
    Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies.First Nations are facing some of the worst water crises in Canada and throughout North America. Their widespread lack of access to safe drinking water receives ongoing national media attention, and yet progress addressing the causes of the problem is painfully ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • This Green and Growing Land

    Environmental Activism in American History

    by Kevin C. Armitage ...
    From Benjamin Franklin’s campaign to combat pollution at the Philadelphia’s docks in the 1750s to the movement against climate change today, American environmentalists have sought to protect the natural world and promote a healthy human society. In This Green and Growing Land, historian Kevin Armitage shows how the story of American environmentalism—part philosophy, part social movement--is in no ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • American Environmental History

    An Introduction

    by Carolyn Merchant ...
    Series series Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures
    By studying the many ways diverse peoples have changed, shaped, and conserved the natural world over time, environmental historians provide insight into humanity's unique relationship with nature and, more importantly, are better able to understand the origins of our current environmental crisis. Beginning with the precolonial land-use practice of Native Americans and concluding with our twenty ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Case Studies in Environmental Ethics

    by Patrick Derr, Edward McNamara ...
    Case Studies in Environmental Ethics is a collection of more than 40 case studies covering diverse topics such as: genetic engineering, aesthetics, pollution, animal rights, population, and resource management. It is intended as a supplemental book for college courses primarily in Environmental Ethics. Each case presents factual information on a particular topic, followed by a discussion of the ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Shrinking the Earth

    The Rise and Decline of Natural Abundance

    by Donald Worster ...
    The discovery of the Americas around 1500 AD was an extraordinary watershed in human experience. It gave rise to the modern period of human ecology, a phenomenon global in scope that set in motion profound changes in almost every society on earth. This new period, which saw the depletion of the lands of the New World, proved tragic for some, triumphant for others, and powerfully affecting for all. ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • A Climate of Crisis

    America in the Age of Environmentalism

    by Patrick Allitt ...
    Series series Penguin History American Life
    A provocative history of the environmental movement in America, showing how this rise to political and social prominence produced a culture of alarmism that has often distorted the factsFew issues today excite more passion or alarm than the specter of climate change. In A Climate of Crisis, historian Patrick Allitt shows that our present climate of crisis is far from exceptional. Indeed, the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Greener than Thou

    Are You Really An Environmentalist?

    by Terry L. Anderson, Laura E. Huggins ...
    In a powerful argument for free market environmentalism, Terry Anderson and Laura Huggins break down liberal and conservative stereotypes of what it means to be an environmentalist. They show that, by forming local coalitions around market principles, stereotypes are replaced by pragmatic solutions that improve environmental quality without necessarily increasing red tape. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Wilderness

    A New History

    Edited by Michael Lewis ...
    This collected volume of original essays proposes to address the state of scholarship on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of Americans responses to wilderness from first contact to the present. While not bringing a synthetic narrative to wilderness, the volume will gather competing interpretations of wilderness in historical context. ... Read more

    $37.79 USD