Bücher der Reihe Studies in Environment and History

Silver traces the effects of English settlement on South Atlantic ecology, showing how three cultures interacted with their changing environment.

An environmental history of the mountain areas of Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Morocco.

Bringing together a wide range of environmental issues that have been debated since the mid-1950s, this book views these issues as a result of changes in values in American society since World War II. The author explores such substantive issues as pollution, natural lands, chemical carcinogens, and population-resources balances. He examines the politics of environmental science, economic analysis, planning, and management, and traces the impact of environmental issues on local, state, and federal government. The book explores political controversy to shed light on the working of political institutions and to establish their relationship to social change.

For centuries, bird guano has played a pivotal role in the agricultural and economic development of Latin America, East Asia and Oceania. As their populations ballooned during the Industrial Revolution, North American and European powers came to depend on this unique resource as well, helping them meet their ever-increasing farming needs. This book explores how the production and commodification of guano has shaped the modern Pacific Basin and the world's relationship to the region. Marrying traditional methods of historical analysis with a broad interdisciplinary approach, Gregory T. Cushman casts this once little-known commodity as an engine of Western industrialization, offering new insight into uniquely modern developments such as environmental consciousness and conservation movements; the ascendance of science, technology and expertise; international relations; and world war.

As cities from Cape Town to La Paz face acute water shortages, citizens need to know how urban water systems evolved to understand their vulnerabilities and alternatives. This volume sheds light on the challenges of water management in Australian cities drawing on environmental, urban and economy history.

Pipe Dreams analyzes the transformation of Central Asia's landscapes through tsarist- and Soviet-era hydraulic projects. Arguing that water was a central concern, Maya K. Peterson brings a critical region into view across a long period and engages environmental questions through a rich political and social framework.

This book tells the story of a fertile European country that, as a result of over population and military armament, found itself in an ecological crisis. This book explores Denmark's successful strategies for recovery, and provides an important historical background to the modern ecological crisis.

What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta? This history, which spans from 1760 to 1920, demonstrates how colonial property law and hydraulic engineering transformed the ecology of the Bengal delta to drain Calcutta.

The first detailed analysis of how climate change influenced the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic, from the middle of the sixteenth century to the early decades of the eighteenth century. For environmental historians, scholars of Dutch history, and anyone interested in climate change.

This book investigates the bitterly contested development of environmental conservation in France from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, suggesting that conflicts over forests between the state, landowning elites, and the peasantry reflected escalating demand for this most vital of natural resources and shaped the country's revolutionary struggles.

Edmund Russell's much-anticipated new book examines interactions between greyhounds and their owners in England from 1200 to 1900 to make a compelling case that history is an evolutionary process. Five forces - politics, economics, technology, ecology, and culture - consistently shaped greyhounds and their owners, with a radical transition in 1831.

Part materialist manifesto, part empirical case study, and part methodological guide, The Matter of History develops a radical new post-anthropocentric understanding of the past that explains how powerful organisms and things pushed diverse nations and cultures towards a global 'Great Convergence'.

This book will appeal to readers interested in labor and environmental issues, rethinking conventional narratives that workers oppose environmental protections. It addresses the history of timber workers and nature from the Industrial Workers of the World in the 1910s through the battles over protecting the spotted owl in the 1990s.

The first history of the human-engineered flooding of China's Yellow River, and how the creation of the delta affected the state, the environment, and the inhabitants of the region.

During the twentieth century, the Soviet Union turned the Kola Peninsula into one of the most populated, industrialized, militarized, and polluted parts of the Arctic. This in-depth exploration of five industries in the region examines cultural perceptions of nature, plans for development, lived experiences, and modifications to the physical world.

Waste into Weapons is the first in-depth history of twentieth-century recycling in Britain. Based on meticulous research, Peter Thorsheim examines the relationship between armaments production, civil liberties, cultural preservation, and diplomacy as these elements played out during Britain's government-sponsored recycling campaign in the Second World War.

George Colpitts offers new perspectives on the market economy of the western prairie after 1780, one that created asymmetric power among traders and informed the bioregional history of the West where the North American bison became a food commodity hunted to nearly the last animal.

Climate Change and the Course of Global History presents the first global study by a historian to fully integrate the earth-system approach of the new climate science with the material history of humanity. Starting with the role of environmental change in biological and human evolution, the book uses the results of three decades of climate science to present a new understanding of human history.

This study follows a generation of American naturalists across the Appalachian Mountains and into the middle-western frontier and lays before the reader their impressions of a vast natural world soon to become a domesticated landscape of fields, meadows, and pastures.

This book explores the serious and far-reaching impacts of Little Ice Age climate fluctuations in Ottoman lands. This study demonstrates how imperial systems of provisioning and settlement that defined Ottoman power in the 1500s came unraveled in the face of ecological pressures and extreme cold and drought, leading to the outbreak of the destructive Celali Rebellion.

Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the imperial orders of the Ottoman state, this book charts how changes in the control of natural resources fundamentally altered the nature of Ottoman imperial sovereignty in Egypt and throughout the empire.

This book introduces readers to evolutionary history, a new field that unites history and biology to create a fuller understanding of the past than either can produce on its own. With examples from around the globe, it will help readers see the broadest patterns of history and the details of their own life in a new light.

Humanity's Burden provides a panoramic overview of the history of malaria. It traces the long arc of malaria out of tropical Africa into Eurasia, its transfer to the Americas during the early years of the Columbian exchange, and its retraction from the middle latitudes into the tropics since the late nineteenth century.

Amid contemporary debates over large dam development and declines in fisheries, this book offers a case study of a river basin (Fraser River, in British Columbia) where development decisions did not ultimately dam the river, but rather conserved its salmon.

An exploration of the social and environmental consequences of oil extraction in the tropical rainforest. Using northern Veracruz as a case study, the author argues that oil production generated major historical and environmental transformations in land tenure systems and uses, and social organisation.

The book represents a significant new departure in the study of ecology and change in human society.

Nature Incorporated explores the Industrial Revolution in New England from an environmental perspective. Focusing on the legendary Waltham-Lowell style mills, this book examines how these textile factories brought water under their exclusive control.

Explores the environmental dynamic in the history of rural black South Africans. It historicizes food production and other environmental relations. But class, gender and, later, race determined the food production individuals practised. After the mid-twentieth century, the interventionist state enforced coercive conservation and segregation, undermining most food production by blacks.

This was the first scholarly history of efforts to reduce the environmental costs of suburban development in the United States. The book offers an account of two of the most important historical events since 1945 - the mass migration to the suburbs and the rise of the environmental movement.