Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2017. — 302 p. From Benjamin Franklin's campaign to combat pollution at the Philadelphia's docks in the 1750s to the movement against climate change today, American environmentalists have sought to protect the natural world and promote a healthy human society. In This Green and Growing Land, historian Kevin Armitage shows how the story of...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. — 264 p. How the story of Noah's Flood was central to the development of a global environmental consciousness in early modern Europe. Winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Prize by the Journal of the History of Ideas, Kenshur Prize by the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indiana University Many centuries before the emergence of the...
2nd ed. — Grey House Publishing, Inc., 2008. — 1089 p. — ISBN: 978-1-59237-119-8. A collection of biographies of the men and women who have made a significant contribution to environmental issues over the last 200 years. Biographies range from scientists to advocates, businessmen to musicians, politicians to actors, along with others who have forever altered how we think about...
Bloomsbury Sigma, 2021. — 384 p. It was Eunice Newton Foote, an American scientist and women's rights campaigner living in Seneca Falls, New York, who first warned the world that an atmosphere heavy with carbon dioxide could send temperatures here on Earth soaring. This was back in 1856. At the time, no one paid much attention. Our Biggest Experiment tells Foote's story, along...
University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 296 p. Given the ubiquity of environmental rhetoric in the modern world, it's easy to think that the meaning of the terms environment and environmentalism are and always have been self-evident. But in Surroundings , we learn that the environmental past is much more complex than it seems at first glance. In this wide-ranging history of the...
Greenwood Press, 2008. — 374 p. Students today are often confronted with alarms and concerns over the state of the environment. Global warming, biodiversity, genetically engineered food - disputes over such topics are a constant refrain. But to best understand these contemporary debates, students need to understand the long history of these environmental concerns. Great Debates in...
Greenwood Press, 2008. — 346 p. This book describes nearly 200 scientific and political controversies involving the environment throughout the history of the US. Each entry begins by listing the time period, the parties to the controversy, other interested parties, and the general environmental issues involved; and end with sources for further information. Among the topics are...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. — 424 pp. Through a series of essays, Eurasian Environments prompts us to rethink our understanding of tsarist and Soviet history by placing the human experience within the larger environmental context of flora, fauna, geology, and climate. This book is a broad look at the environmental history of Eurasia, specifically examining steppe...
Harper, 2022. — 896 p. New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. With the detonation of the Trinity...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. — 280 p. The untold history of how Chicago served as an important site of innovation in environmental thought as America transitioned to modern, industrial capitalism. In Nature's Laboratory , Elizabeth Grennan Browning argues that Chicago—a city characterized by rapid growth, severe labor unrest, and its position as a gateway to the...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 510 p. In 1972, James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis began collaborating on the Gaia hypothesis. They suggested that over geological time, life on Earth has had a major role in both producing and regulating its own environment. Gaia is now an ecological and environmental worldview underpinning vital scientific and cultural debates over...
On Point Press, 2019. — 384 p. Intended to delight and provoke, these short, beautifully crafted essays, enlivened with photos and illustrations, explore how humans have engaged with Canadian nature and what those interactions say about the nature of Canada. Tracing a path from the Ice Age to the Anthropocene, some of the foremost stars in the field of environmental history...
University of California Press, 2002. — 270 p. A pioneer in international conservation and wildlife ecology, Raymond Dasmann published his first book, the influential text Environmental Conservation , when the term "environment" was little known and "conservation" to most people simply meant keeping or storing. This delightful memoir tells the story of an unpretentious man who...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 285 p. The Historical A-Z Dictionary of Environmentalism strategically skips across issues, concepts, time, organizations, and cultures, not with any pretense of producing a definitive dictionary but rather with the aim of producing an inclusive, wide-ranging, and global history of environmentalism. This is done through a chronology, a list of acronyms and...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. — 384 p. — (Intersections: Histories of Environment, Science, and Technology in the Anthropocene) Nature’s Diplomats explores the development of science-based and internationally conceived nature protection in its foundational years before the 1960s, the decade when it launched from obscurity onto the global stage. Raf De Bont studies a...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019. — 552 p. The story of a passionate attempt to capture the entire biosphere of an isolated community facing ecological transformation. In 1964-65, an international team of thirty-eight scientists and assistants, led by Montreal physician Stanley Skoryna, sailed to the mysterious Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to conduct an unprecedented survey of...
University of California Press, 2012. — 288 p. Ecology is the centerpiece of many of the most important decisions that face humanity. Roots of Ecology documents the deep ancestry of this now enormously important science from the early ideas of Herodotos, Plato, and Pliny, up through those of Linnaeus and Darwin, to those that inspired Ernst Haeckel's mid-nineteenth-century...
University of Chicago Press, 2023. — 248 p. The first biography of a visionary biologist whose groundbreaking ideas regarding wildlife and science revolutionized national parks. When twenty-three-year-old George Meléndez Wright arrived in Yosemite National Park in 1927 to work as a ranger naturalist - the first Hispanic person to occupy any professional position in the National...
Monthly Review Press, 2020. — 672 p. Winner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2020 and the Paul Sweezy Outstanding Book Award 2022 Twenty years ago, John Bellamy Foster’s Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature introduced a new understanding of Karl Marx’s revolutionary ecological materialism. More than simply a study of Marx, it commenced an intellectual and social history,...
Imperial College Press, 2013. - 430 pp. This is an original and wide-ranging account of the careers of a close-knit group of highly influential ecologists working in Britain from the late 1960s onwards. The book can also be read as a history of some recent developments in ecology. One of the group, Robert May, is a past president of the Royal Society, and the author of what...
Yale University Press, 1996. — 274 p. The ecosystem concept—the idea that flora and fauna interact with the environment to form an ecological complex—has long been central to the public perception of ecology and to increasing awareness of environmental degradation. In this book an eminent ecologist explains the ecosystem concept, tracing its evolution, describing how numerous...
University of Regina Press, 2018. — 320 p. Richard St. Barbe Baker was an inspirational visionary and pioneering environmentalist who is credited with saving and planting billions of trees. He saved lives, too, through his ceaseless global campaign to raise the alarm about deforestation and desertification and by finding effective, culturally sensitive ways for people to...
Fordham University Press, 2018. — 273 p. — ISBN10: 0823282112, 13 978-0823282111. Ecological Form brings together leading voices in nineteenth-century ecocriticism to suture the lingering divide between postcolonial and ecocritical approaches. Together, these essays show how Victorian thinkers used aesthetic form to engage problems of system, interconnection, and dispossession...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 491 p. This book examines the role of photography and visual culture in the emergence of ecological science between 1895 and 1939. Dr Damian Hughes is an independent researcher and photohistorian with 25 years’ experience as a practicing field ecologist.
University of California Press, 2001. — 324 p. Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing, foraging, and timber cutting in the...
A & C Black, 2012. — 352 p. American scientist and author Rachel Carson is said to have sparked the modern day environmental movement with the publication of Silent Spring in 1962. She made vivid the prospect of life without birdsong. But has her warning been heeded? Fifty years on, Conor Mark Jameson reflects on the growth of environmentalism since Silent Spring was published....
Durham : Duke University Press, 1987. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0822307197; ISBN13: 978-0822307198 The Environmental Problem: Regulation or Structure The Centipede and the Hydra The Environmental Agencies The Economic Enterprises The Party and Territorial Administrations The Experts Public Opinion and Mass Organizations Structure and Regulatory Principle Revisited Postscript:...
MIT Press, 2020. — 480 p. The trajectories of pollution in global capitalism, from the toxic waste of early tanneries to the poisonous effects of pesticides in the twentieth century. Through the centuries, the march of economic progress has been accompanied by the spread of industrial pollution. As our capacities for production and our aptitude for consumption have increased,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 224 p. Studies of the history of international relations traditionally have focused on the decisions made by those at the highest levels of government. In more recent years, scholars have expanded their attention to cover economic, cultural, or social interactions among nations. What has remained largely ignored, however, is the impact of an...
Scribner, 2023. — 460 p. In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir - iconic environmentalist, writer, and philosopher - meets face-to-face for the first time with his longtime editor Robert Underwood Johnson, an elegant and influential figure at The Century magazine. Before long, the pair, opposites in many ways, decide to venture to Yosemite Valley, the magnificent site...
University of North Carolina Press, 2020. — 278 p. — (Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges) The age of European high imperialism was characterized by the movement of plants and animals on a historically unprecedented scale. The human migrants who colonized territories around the world brought a variety of other species with them, from the crops and livestock they hoped to...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 216 p. In Aldo Leopold and an Ecological Conscience ecologists, wildlife biologists, and other professional conservationists explore the ecological legacy of Aldo Leopold and his A Sand County Almanac and his contributions to the environmental movement, the philosophy of science, and natural resource management. Twelve personal essays describe the...
2nd Edition — Oxford University Press, 2016. — 400 p. For anyone interested in wildlife, birds, wilderness areas, parks, ecology, conservation, environmental literature, and ethics, the name Aldo Leopold is sure to pop up. Since first publication, Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire has remained the classic short, inspiring biography of Leopold - the perfect companion to reading his...
Harvard University Press, 2022. — 336 p. An environmental historian delves into the history, science, and philosophy of a paradoxical pursuit: the century-old quest to design natural places and create wild species. Environmental restoration is a global pursuit and a major political concern. Governments, nonprofits, private corporations, and other institutions spend billions of...
Columbia University Press, 2007. — 504 p. By studying the many ways diverse peoples have changed, shaped, and conserved the natural world over time, environmental historians provide insight into humanity's unique relationship with nature and, more importantly, are better able to understand the origins of our current environmental crisis. Beginning with the precolonial land-use...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 232 p. A wide-ranging and original introduction to the Anthropocene (the Age of Humanity) that offers fresh, theoretical insights bridging the sciences and the humanities From noted environmental historian Carolyn Merchant, this book focuses on the original concept of the Anthropocene first proposed by Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer in their...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 344 p. In 1887, a year after founding the Audubon Society, explorer and conservationist George Bird Grinnell launched Audubon Magazine . The magazine constituted one of the first efforts to preserve bird species decimated by the women’s hat trade, hunting, and loss of habitat. Within two years, however, for practical reasons, Grinnell dissolved both...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 344 p. In 1887, a year after founding the Audubon Society, explorer and conservationist George Bird Grinnell launched Audubon Magazine . The magazine constituted one of the first efforts to preserve bird species decimated by the women’s hat trade, hunting, and loss of habitat. Within two years, however, for practical reasons, Grinnell dissolved...
University of Nebraska Press, 2020. — 264 p. Theodore Roosevelt’s scientific curiosity and love of the outdoors proved a defining force throughout his hectic life as a rancher and explorer, police commissioner and governor of New York, vice president and president of the United States. Conservation and natural history were parts of a whole for this driven, charismatic public...
Island Press, 2001. — 464 p. Gifford Pinchot is known primarily for his work as first chief of the U. S. Forest Service and for his argument that resources should be used to provide the "greatest good for the greatest number of people". But Pinchot was a more complicated figure than has generally been recognized, and more than half a century after his death, he continues to...
University of California Press, 2018. — 200 p. Since its publication in 1962, Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring has often been celebrated as the catalyst that sparked an American environmental movement. Yet environmental consciousness and environmental protest in some regions of the United States date back to the nineteenth century, with the advent of industrial manufacturing and...
Introduced by Graham White — Canongate UK, 1998. — 736 p. The name of John Muir has come to stand for the protection of wild land and wilderness in both America and Britain. Born in Dunbar in 1838, Muir is famed as the father of American conservation. This collection, including the rarely-seen Stickeen, presents the finest of Muir's writings, and imparts a rounded portrait of a...
Routledge, 2021. — 142 p. This book argues that the Soviet Union was a highly influential actor in furthering understandings of society-nature interaction on the international stage and played a key role in helping to shape, conceptualize and assess the relationship between humankind and the Earth system. It considers how humankind's capacity to affect physical and biological...
Scarecrow Press, 2007. — 391 p. Human beings have been concerned about nature and their place in it for millennia. Disquiet about the consequences of human action on the natural environment date back to the ancient Greeks and Romans. The efforts of the green movement can be traced back to the nineteenth century. In this period, individuals, groups, and organizations began...
Harvard University Press, 2016. — 264 p. Putting a provocative new slant on the history of U.S. conservation, Vanishing America reveals how wilderness preservation efforts became entangled with racial anxieties - specifically the fear that forces of modern civilization, unless checked, would sap white America’s vigor and stamina. Nineteenth-century citizens of European descent...
Harvard University Press, 2016. — 264 p. Putting a provocative new slant on the history of U.S. conservation, Vanishing America reveals how wilderness preservation efforts became entangled with racial anxieties - specifically the fear that forces of modern civilization, unless checked, would sap white America’s vigor and stamina. Nineteenth-century citizens of European descent...
HarperCollins, 2009. — 304 p. In the last three decades of the nineteenth century, an American buffalo herd once numbering 30 million animals was reduced to twelve. It was the era of Manifest Destiny, a Gilded Age that treated the West as nothing more than a treasure chest of resources to be dug up or shot down. The buffalo in this world was a commodity, hounded by legions of...
University of North Carolina Press, 2017. — 319 p. Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth century, Megan Raby details how ecologists took advantage of growing U.S....
University of Chicago Press, 2019. — 336 p. The climate change reckoning looms. As scientists try to discern what the Earth’s changing weather patterns mean for our future, Rachel Rothschild seeks to understand the current scientific and political debates surrounding the environment through the history of another global environmental threat: acid rain. The identification of...
Stackpole Books, 2022. — 232 p. The story of how America’s public lands - our city parks, national forests, and wilderness areas - came into being can be traced to a few conservation pioneers and proteges who shaped policy and advocated for open spaces. Some, like Frederick Law Olmsted and Gifford Pinchot, are well known, while others have never been given their due. Jeffrey...
Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2010. — 694 p. Notes on Contributors. The Elements of Environmental History. Paths Toward Home: Landmarks of the Field in Environmental History. Louis S. Warren. Air. Nancy Langston. The Living Earth: History, Darwinian Evolution, and the Grasslands. Donald Worster. Fire. Stephen J. Pyne. Water. Rebecca Solnit. Nature and the Construction of Society...
Lyons Press, 2016. — 232 p. The history of Yosemite National Park is as compelling as the waterfalls, monoliths, and peaks that have mesmerized visitors for more than a century. But what hikers see today in the iconic Yosemite Valley, as well as on the peaks in the high country and within the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees, is a world away from the place Native Americans once...
Greenwood Press, 2004. — 312 p. — ISBN: 0–313–32826–9 Through biographical examinations of some of the key figures in the debate on conservation, this book seeks to explore a range of subjects, such as the evolution of the conservation movement, its implications for policy-makers, and how it impacts the daily lives of people everywhere. The varying approaches taken by these...
University of Nebraska Press, 2003. — 146 p. Yellowstone National Park, a global icon of conservation and natural beauty, was born at the most improbable of times: the American Gilded Age, when altruism seemed extinct and society’s vision seemed focused solely on greed and growth. Perhaps that is why the park’s “creation myth” recounted how a few saintlike pioneer...
Springer Science+Business Media, 2003. — xxiv, 482 p. — (Science across cultures, 4). — ISBN: 978-90-481-6271-0, 978-94-017-0149-5. Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures consists of about 25 essays dealing with the environmental knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles...
Springer Science+Business Media, 2003. — 506 p. — (Science across cultures, 4). — ISBN: 978-90-481-6271-0, 978-94-017-0149-5. Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures consists of about 25 essays dealing with the environmental knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying...
Duke University Press, 2016. — 496 p. In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. She shows how race, class, and gender influenced every aspect of the movement, including the establishment of parks; campaigns to protect wild game, birds,...
University of Georgia Press, 2006. — 320 p. One writer's role in securing a prominent and powerful "place of nature" in American culture. This study situates John Burroughs, together with John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt, as one of a trinity of thinkers who, between the Civil War and World War I, defined and secured a place for nature in mainstream American culture. Though not as...
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0822957337; ISBN13: 978-0822957331. Models of Nature studies the early and turbulent years of the Soviet conservation movement from the October Revolution to the mid-1930s—Lenin’s rule to the rise of Stalin. This new edition includes an afterword by the author that reflects upon the study's impact and...
De Gruyter, 2021. — 450 p. Today, the environment seems omnipresent in European policy within and beyond the European Union. The idea of a shared European environment, however, has come a long way and is still being contested. Greening Europe focuses on the many ways people have interacted with nature and made it an issue of European concern. The authors ask how notions of...
Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 528 p.
Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past. It traces the origins of the concept, discusses the thinkers who have shaped it, and shows how it in turn has shaped the modern perception of our place in nature. The book includes portraits of Linnaeus, Gilbert White, Darwin, Thoreau, and such key twentieth-century...
Columbia University Press, 2016. — 400 p. David Brower (1912–2000) was a central figure in the modern environmental movement. His leadership, vision, and elegant conception of the wilderness forever changed how we approach nature. In many ways, he was a twentieth-century Thoreau. Brower transformed the Sierra Club into a national force that challenged and stopped federally...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2023. — 480 с.: ил. — (Historia Rossica). — ISBN 978-5-44482-332-4 В XX веке Советский Союз превратил Кольский полуостров – когда-то удаленный форпост Российской империи – в один из самых населенных, промышленно развитых, милитаризованных и загрязненных районов Арктики. Эта трансформация оказала существенное влияние на советский опыт...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2023. — 480 с.: ил. — (Historia Rossica). — ISBN 978-5-44482-332-4 В XX веке Советский Союз превратил Кольский полуостров – когда-то удаленный форпост Российской империи – в один из самых населенных, промышленно развитых, милитаризованных и загрязненных районов Арктики. Эта трансформация оказала существенное влияние на советский опыт...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2023. — 480 с.: ил. — (Historia Rossica). — ISBN 978-5-44482-332-4 В XX веке Советский Союз превратил Кольский полуостров – когда-то удаленный форпост Российской империи – в один из самых населенных, промышленно развитых, милитаризованных и загрязненных районов Арктики. Эта трансформация оказала существенное влияние на советский опыт...
Монография. — Красноярск: Красноярский государственный аграрный университет, 2009. – 175 с. Монография посвящена актуальной и малоизученной теме – раскрытию исторического опыта природопользования в период 1945 – 1970 гг. в Ангаро-Енисейском регионе. Рассматривается эволюция взглядов на проблемы природопользования и природоохранная работа научных, государственных и общественных...
Оренбург: ОГУ, 2009. — 234 с. В учебном пособии рассматриваются исторические этапы становления экологии как фундаментальной науки и особенности экологических кризисов в эти периоды развития цивилизации; рассмотрены современные экологические проблемы человечества и раскрыта специфическая сущность научного инструментария экологических исследований; проанализирована взаимосвязь...
Учебное пособие. — Пермь: Прокростъ, 2021. — 169 с. — ISBN 978-5-94279-517-7. В учебном пособии обсуждается история экологических учений с момента накопления первых данных до настоящего времени. Рассмотрено пять периодов истории экологии, а также методология исторических учений и современные тенденции развития экологического знания. Учебное пособие содержит лекционный материал,...
Учебное пособие. — Краснодар: Кубанский государственный аграрный университет имени И.Т. Трубилина, 2018. — 94 с. — ISBN 978-5-00097-662-3. В учебном пособии кратко изложены основные этапы становления науки экологии, история ее развития как общебиологической науки от ранней античности до современности. Большое внимание уделено методологии экологии. Обсуждаются особенности...
М.: Маршрут, 2004. — 84 с. — ISBN: 5-89035-148-6. В учебном пособии рассматривается история развития экологии как науки со времен Древнего Мира по наши дни. В историческом контексте обсуждается взаимодействие человека и природы, исторические этапы, изменяющие отношение человека к природе и влияние научно-технического прогресса на развитие и становление экологии. Содержится...
М.: ГЕОС, 2014. — 190 с. — ISBN: 9785891186712
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