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Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,021 ratings — published 1983
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,601 ratings — published 1991
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History)
by (shelved 42 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,866 ratings — published 1986
DUST BOWL 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 914 ratings — published 1979
The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (Hill and Wang Critical Issues)
by (shelved 33 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 777 ratings — published 1995
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 459,146 ratings — published 1997
Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 819 ratings — published 1995
The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,102 ratings — published 1972
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 55,137 ratings — published 1962
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 673 ratings — published 2019
Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series)
by (shelved 20 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 629 ratings — published 2000
Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 397 ratings — published 1986
Wilderness and the American Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,056 ratings — published 1967
Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 471 ratings — published 2002
Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 324 ratings — published 2001
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,130 ratings — published 2000
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 36,472 ratings — published 1949
Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 (New Approaches to the Americas)
by (shelved 15 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 381 ratings — published 2010
Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 109 ratings — published 2006
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,940 ratings — published 1986
Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (Studies in Environment and History)
by (shelved 13 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 284 ratings — published 1977
The Republic of Nature: An Environmental history of the United States (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
by (shelved 12 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 212 ratings — published 2012
The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 182 ratings — published 2000
The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 673 ratings — published 1980
Plagues and Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 5,011 ratings — published 1976
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 29,831 ratings — published 2015
Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History (Studies in Environment and History)
by (shelved 10 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 75 ratings — published 2012
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,618 ratings — published 2014
The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World (California World History Library) (Volume 1)
by (shelved 10 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 49 ratings — published 2003
The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 60 ratings — published 2002
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 937 ratings — published 2001
Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 661 ratings — published 2008
The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.69 — 144 ratings — published 2001
Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 306 ratings — published 2004
The Ecological Indian: Myth and History (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.60 — 317 ratings — published 1999
Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle (The Lamar Series in Western History)
by (shelved 9 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 180 ratings — published 2007
The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Studies in Environment and History)
by (shelved 9 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.71 — 245 ratings — published 2001
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 4.51 — 174,529 ratings — published 2013
The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 184 ratings — published 2006
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,862 ratings — published 2000
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,427 ratings — published 2013
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 978 ratings — published 2014
Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 (Nature | History | Society)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 16 ratings — published 2009
Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500-1800 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 237 ratings — published 1983
What is Environmental History? (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.68 — 66 ratings — published 2006
Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 42 ratings — published 2011
Car Country: An Environmental History (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 120 ratings — published 2012
Reel Nature : America's Romance With Wildlife on Film (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 50 ratings — published 1999
Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 178 ratings — published 2000
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,488 ratings — published 1992
“In fact, the advocates of People's Park had asserted another version of what is probably America's oldest and most cherished fantasy: a daily reality of harmony between man and nature based on an experience of the land land as essentially feminine - that is not simply the land as mother, but the land as woman, the total female principle of gratification - enclosing the individual in an environment of receptivity, repose, and painless and integral satisfaction.”
― Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters
― Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters
“It is a country to breed mystical people, egocentric people, perhaps poetic people. But not humble ones…Puny you may feel there, and vulnerable, but not unnoticed. This is a land to mark the sparrow’s fall”
― Wolf Willow
― Wolf Willow
