Environmental History


Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History)
The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (Hill and Wang Critical Issues)
DUST BOWL 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: The Southern Plains in the 1930s
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492
Silent Spring
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series)
Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
Wilderness and the American Mind
Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History
Tim Palmer
Underlying many aspects of water development is a myth: the myth that we must have more.
Tim Palmer, Endangered Rivers and the Conservation Movement

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a practical knowledge of the construction of small lakes was part of the equipment of most countrymen. Many of the holes they dug and dams they built still hold water and are now often regarded as 'natural.' They are of immeasurable value in the landscape. ...more
Elisabeth Beazley, Designed for recreation: A practical handbook for all concerned with providing leisure facilities in the countryside;

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