Thirty years ago, Alfred Crosby published a small work that illuminated a simple point, that the ...

Brazil once enjoyed a near monopoly in rubber when the commodity was gathered in the wild. By 191...

This study focuses on the black biological experience in slavery, in the Caribbean. It begins wit...

War and Nature combines discussion of technology, nature, and warfare to explain the impact of wa...

Bringing together a wide range of environmental issues that have been debated since the mid-1950s...

Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 milli...

Historian Alfred W. Crosby looks at hard, accurate throwing and the manipulation of fire as uniqu...

Challenging the conventional wisdom conveyed by Western environmental historians about China, thi...

This is the first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, concentrati...

The living resources of California's rivers and coastal waters are among the most varied and prod...

Judith Shapiro, in clear and compelling prose, relates the great, untold story of the devastating...

When Europeans first reached the land that would become the United States they were staggered by ...