Joshua P. Howe is associate professor history and environmental studies at Reed College. He is author of Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming (University of Washington Press, 2014) and editor of Making Climate Change History: Documents from Global Warming’s Past (University of Washington Press, 2017).
29 Ebooks von Paul S. Sutter
Joshua P. Howe: Making Climate Change History
This collection pulls together key documents from the scientific and political history of climate change, including congressional testimony, scientific papers, newspaper editorials, court cases, and …
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Melanie A. Kiechle: Smell Detectives
What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenth-century Americans who used th …
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Joanna L. Dyl: Seismic City
On April 18, 1906, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco region, igniting fires that burned half the city. The disaster in all its elements — earthquake, fires, and recovery — profoundly …
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Jakobina K. Arch: Bringing Whales Ashore
Japan today defends its controversial whaling expeditions by invoking tradition—but what was the historical reality? In examining the techniques and impacts of whaling during the Tokugawa period (160 …
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Christopher W. Wells: Environmental Justice in Postwar America
In the decades after World War II, the American economy entered a period of prolonged growth that created unprecedented affluence—but these developments came at the cost of a host of new environmenta …
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Paul S. Sutter: Driven Wild
In its infancy, the movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States was motivated less by perceived threats from industrial and agricultural activities than by concern over the impacts of a …
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Frederick L. Brown: The City Is More Than Human
Winner of the 2017 Virginia Marie Folkins Award, Association of King County Historical Organizations (AKCHO) Winner of the 2017 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize, Western History Association Seattle would no …
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Darren Frederick Speece: Defending Giants
Giant redwoods are American icons, paragons of grandeur, exceptionalism, and endurance. They are also symbols of conflict and negotiation, remnants of environmental battles over the limits of industr …
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James W. Feldman: Nuclear Reactions
Nuclear Reactions explores the nuclear consensus that emerged in post–World War II America, characterized by widespread support for a diplomatic and military strategy based on nuclear weapons and a v …
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Lynn A. Nelson: Pharsalia
Pharsalia, a plantation located in piedmont Virginia at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is one of the best-documented sites of its kind. Drawing on the exceptionally rich trove of papers left b …
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Mark D. Hersey: My Work Is That of Conservation
George Washington Carver (ca. 1864–1943) is at once one of the most familiar and misunderstood figures in American history. In My Work Is That of Conservation, Mark D. Hersey reveals the life and wor …
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Albert G. Way & Leon Neel: The Art of Managing Longleaf
Greenwood Plantation in the Red Hills region of southwest Georgia includes a rare one-thousand-acre stand of old-growth longleaf pine woodlands, a remnant of an ecosystem that once covered close to n …
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Albert G. Way: Conserving Southern Longleaf
The Red Hills region of south Georgia and north Florida contains one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems in North America, with longleaf pine trees that are up to four hundred years old and a …
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Brian Allen Drake: The Blue, the Gray, and the Green
The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a handful of books to apply an environmental history approach to the Civil War. This book explores how nature—disease, climate, flora and fauna, and o …
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Paul S. Sutter: Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies
Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon, ” preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. …
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Monica R. Gisolfi: The Takeover
Economists have described the upcountry Georgia poultry industry as the quintessential agribusiness. Following a trajectory from Reconstruction through the Great Depression to the present day, Monica …
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Paul M. Pressly & Paul S. Sutter: Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture
An essay collection exploring the history of 5, 000-year relationship between human culture and nature on the Georgia coast. One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough cons …
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David Fedman: Seeds of Control
Conservation as a tool of colonialism in early twentieth-century Korea Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905–1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to an …
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Thomas Fleischman: Communist Pigs
The pig played a key role in the German Democratic Republic’s attempts to create a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles. By the mid-1980s, East Germany produced more pork per …
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Ian M. Miller: Fir and Empire
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The disappearance of China’s naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country’s history, one often blamed on imperi …
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Emily O’Gorman: Wetlands in a Dry Land
Winner of the Inaugural Book Prize from the Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand Environmental History Network A compelling environmental history of a critical ecosystem under threat In the name of agric …
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Robert J. Mayhew: Debating Malthus
Introducing students to the place of population in environmental thinking For centuries, thinking about the earth’s increasing human population has been tied to environmental ideas and political acti …
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James Morton Turner: Charged
Winner of the 24th Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize Finalist for the 2023 Cundill History Prize Gold Medal Recipient, Nautilus Book Awards, Sustainability The dirty work essential to …
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Robert Michael Morrissey: People of the Ecotone
Winner of the 2023 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize for best book in western environmental history from the Western History Association Indigenous power in a significant cultural and ecological borderland I …
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Andrew N. Case: The Organic Profit
From green-lifestyle mavens who endorse products on social media to natural health activists sponsored by organic food companies, the marketplace for advice about how to live life naturally is better …
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Sarah R. Hamilton: Cultivating Nature
Winner of the 2019 Turku Book Award from the European Society for Environmental History The Albufera Natural Park, an area ten kilometers south of Valencia that is widely regarded as the birthplace o …
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David Andrew Biggs: Footprints of War
When American forces arrived in Vietnam, they found themselves embedded in historical village and frontier spaces already shaped by past conflicts. American bases and bombing targets followed spatial …
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Simone M. Müller: The Toxic Ship
An infamous voyage explores the hazardous waste trade and environmental justice In 1986 the Khian Sea, carrying thousands of tons of incinerator ash from Philadelphia, began a two-year journey, roami …
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Dani Inkpen: Capturing Glaciers
Explores the photography of climate change Photographs do not simply speak for themselves. Their meanings are built through interpretive frameworks that shift over time. Today, photographs of recedin …
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