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Atomic Environments

Atomic Environments

Nuclear Technologies, the Natural World, and Policymaking, 1945–1960

by Neil Shafer Oatsvall

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

Geoengineering, Persuasion, and the Climate Crisis

A Geologic Rhetoric

by Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder

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

Zombiescapes and Phantom Zones

Ecocriticism and the Liminal from "Invisible Man" to "The Walking Dead"

by Lee Rozelle

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

Climate Politics on the Border

Environmental Justice Rhetorics

by Kenneth Walker

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

The Defoliation of America

Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests

by Amy Marie Hay

Foreword by Mark D. Hersey

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

Enemy in the Blood

Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina

by Eric D. Carter

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

A Field on Fire

The Future of Environmental History

Edited by Mark D. Hersey and Ted Steinberg

Contributions by Mark D. Hersey, Ted Steinberg, Marco Armiero, Kevin C. Armitage, Brian C. Black, Lisa M. Brady, Karl Boyd Brooks, Robert Wellman Campbell, Brian Allen Drake, Sterling Evans, Sara M. Gregg, Shen Hou, Neil M. Maher, Christof Mauch, Daniel T. Rodgers, Adam Rome, Edmund Russell, Mikko Saikku and Frank Zelko

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

Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation

An Archaeology of Colonial Nevis, West Indies

by Marco G. Meniketti

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

The Everest Effect

Nature, Culture, Ideology

by Elizabeth Mazzolini

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.

Loving God’s Wildness

Loving God's Wildness

The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature

by Jeffrey Bilbro

Price: $54.95

ISBN: 9780817318574

Pub Date: April 2015

Format: Hardcover

Analyzing writings ranging from the Puritans to the present day, Loving God’s Wildness traces the effects of Christian theology on America’s ecological imagination, revealing the often conflicted ways in which Americans relate to and perceive the natural world.
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