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Southern Rivers
Restoring America's Freshwater Biodiversity
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817361280
Pub Date: March 2024
Format: Paperback
Offers a vision for how the Southeast can manage its rivers and water supply as we confront a perfect storm of species extinction, climate-driven extreme weather events, and sea level rise
Atomic Environments
Nuclear Technologies, the Natural World, and Policymaking, 1945–1960
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780817321468
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Hardcover
Demonstrates how policymakers influenced environmental science during the early nuclear age
Geoengineering, Persuasion, and the Climate Crisis
A Geologic Rhetoric
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9780817321420
Pub Date: December 2022
Format: Hardcover
A rhetorical exploration of an underexamined side of climate change—the ongoing research into and development of geoengineering strategies
Zombiescapes and Phantom Zones
Ecocriticism and the Liminal from "Invisible Man" to "The Walking Dead"
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817360535
Pub Date: April 2022
Format: Paperback
A study of the natural world as imagined by contemporary writers, specifically their portrayals of nature as monster
Climate Politics on the Border
Environmental Justice Rhetorics
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780817321116
Pub Date: March 2022
Format: Hardcover
Explores the ways climate change and extreme weather are negotiated politically in a border community
The Defoliation of America
Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780817321086
Pub Date: December 2021
Format: Hardcover
Examines the domestic and international use of phenoxy herbicides by the United States in the mid-twentieth century
Enemy in the Blood
Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817356927
Pub Date: October 2020
Format: Paperback
Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina examines the dramatic yet mostly forgotten history of malaria control in northwest Argentina. Carter traces the evolution of malaria science and policy in Argentina from the disease’s emergence as a social problem in the 1890s to its effective eradication by 1950.
A Field on Fire
The Future of Environmental History
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780817320010
Pub Date: January 2019
Format: Hardcover
A frank and engaging exploration of the burgeoning academic field of environmental history
Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation
An Archaeology of Colonial Nevis, West Indies
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780817318918
Pub Date: December 2015
Format: Hardcover
Offers a rare exploration of the substantial environmental impact of capitalist sugar agriculture, colonial settlement, and the Atlantic slave trade on the Caribbean island of Nevis
The Everest Effect
Nature, Culture, Ideology
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780817318932
Pub Date: October 2015
Format: Hardcover
The Everest Effect is an accessibly written cultural history of how nature, technology, and culture have worked together to turn Mount Everest into a powerful and ubiquitous physical measure of Western values.
Southern Rivers
Restoring America's Freshwater Biodiversity
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817361280
Pub Date: March 2024
Format: Paperback
Offers a vision for how the Southeast can manage its rivers and water supply as we confront a perfect storm of species extinction, climate-driven extreme weather events, and sea level rise
Atomic Environments
Nuclear Technologies, the Natural World, and Policymaking, 1945–1960
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780817321468
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Hardcover
Demonstrates how policymakers influenced environmental science during the early nuclear age
Geoengineering, Persuasion, and the Climate Crisis
A Geologic Rhetoric
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9780817321420
Pub Date: December 2022
Format: Hardcover
A rhetorical exploration of an underexamined side of climate change—the ongoing research into and development of geoengineering strategies
Zombiescapes and Phantom Zones
Ecocriticism and the Liminal from "Invisible Man" to "The Walking Dead"
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817360535
Pub Date: April 2022
Format: Paperback
A study of the natural world as imagined by contemporary writers, specifically their portrayals of nature as monster
Climate Politics on the Border
Environmental Justice Rhetorics
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780817321116
Pub Date: March 2022
Format: Hardcover
Explores the ways climate change and extreme weather are negotiated politically in a border community
The Defoliation of America
Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780817321086
Pub Date: December 2021
Format: Hardcover
Examines the domestic and international use of phenoxy herbicides by the United States in the mid-twentieth century
Enemy in the Blood
Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817356927
Pub Date: October 2020
Format: Paperback
Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina examines the dramatic yet mostly forgotten history of malaria control in northwest Argentina. Carter traces the evolution of malaria science and policy in Argentina from the disease’s emergence as a social problem in the 1890s to its effective eradication by 1950.
A Field on Fire
The Future of Environmental History
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780817320010
Pub Date: January 2019
Format: Hardcover
A frank and engaging exploration of the burgeoning academic field of environmental history
Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation
An Archaeology of Colonial Nevis, West Indies
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780817318918
Pub Date: December 2015
Format: Hardcover
Offers a rare exploration of the substantial environmental impact of capitalist sugar agriculture, colonial settlement, and the Atlantic slave trade on the Caribbean island of Nevis
The Everest Effect
Nature, Culture, Ideology
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780817318932
Pub Date: October 2015
Format: Hardcover
The Everest Effect is an accessibly written cultural history of how nature, technology, and culture have worked together to turn Mount Everest into a powerful and ubiquitous physical measure of Western values.