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...

Crosby examines Catholic thought of McCarthy, the relationship between Catholics and Protestants,...

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 ...

First published in 1999, this book is a comparative history of the development of ideas about nat...

Taking as a case study the sixteenth-century history of a region of highland central Mexico, this...