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Gifford Pinchot
Selected Writings
Av Gifford Pinchot, Char Miller
Inbunden, 2017
1261 kr
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The founding chief of the U.S. Forest Service and twice governor of Pennsylvania, Gifford Pinchot was central to the early twentieth-century conservation movement in the United States and the political history and evolution of the Keystone State. This collection of Pinchot’s essays, articles, and …
Gifford Pinchot
Selected Writings
Av Gifford Pinchot, Char Miller
Häftad, 2017
324 kr
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The founding chief of the U.S. Forest Service and twice governor of Pennsylvania, Gifford Pinchot was central to the early twentieth-century conservation movement in the United States and the political history and evolution of the Keystone State. This collection of Pinchot’s essays, articles, and …
Taylored Citizenship
State Institutions and Subjectivity
Av Char Miller
Inbunden, 2001
1036 kr
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Miller shows how government institutions changed the meaning of American citizenship during the World War II era. He considers the state's role in creating concepts of citizenship and subjectivity by analyzing the application within military and educational institutions of systems of discipline …
Taylored Citizenship
State Institutions and Subjectivity
Av Char Miller
E-bok, 2001
1169 kr
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Miller shows how government institutions changed the meaning of American citizenship during the World War II era. He considers the state's role in creating concepts of citizenship and subjectivity by analyzing the application within military and educational institutions of systems of discipline …
Atlas of U.S. and Canadian Environmental History
Av Char Miller
Inbunden, 2003
3904 kr
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This visually dynamic historical atlas chronologically covers American environmental history through the use of four-color maps, photos, and diagrams, and in written entries from well known scholars.Organized into seven categories, each chapter covers: agriculture * wildlife and forestry * land use …
American Forests
Nature, Culture, and Politics
Av Char Miller
Häftad, 1997
416 kr
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Highlighting the political, social, and environmental forces that have determined the use and abuse of American forests, this book seeks to challenge forest management and the scientific approach to timber harvesting in national forests.
Where There's Smoke
The Environmental Science, Public Policy, and Politics of Marijuana
Av Char Miller
E-bok, 2018
446 kr
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Over the course of a year, in just one national forest in California, raids on illegal marijuana growing operations yielded 19,710 pounds of infrastructure, 138 ounces of restricted poisons, 4,595 pounds of fertilizer, 12 gallons of common pesticides, 5.6 miles of waterlines, and 102 propane …
Ogallala
Water for a Dry Land
Av John Opie, Char Miller m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
401 kr
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2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Ogallala aquifer, a vast underground water reserve extending from South Dakota through Texas, is the product of eons of accumulated glacial melts, ancient Rocky Mountain snowmelts, and rainfall, all percolating slowly through gravel beds hundreds of feet …
Just Environments
Building a Resilient San Antonio
Av Char Miller
Inbunden, 2027
536 kr
Kommande
San Antonio has a history of grassroots organizing reaching back to mid-19th-century mutual-aid societies. That organizing tradition continues in force as contemporary organizations respond to 21st-century challenges confronting the nation's seventh largest city, from climate change to the struggle …
Out Of The Woods
Essays in Environmental History
Häftad, 1997
744 kr
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Through the pages of Environmental History Review, now Environmental History, an entire discipline has been created and defined over time through the publication of the finest scholarship by humanists, social and natural scientists, and other professionals concerned with the complex relationship …
Between Ruin and Restoration
An Environmental History of Israel
Av Daniel Orenstein, Alon Tal m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
829 kr
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The environmental history of Israel is as intriguing and complex as the nation itself. Situated on a mere 8,630 square miles, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf, varying from desert to forest, Israel’s natural environment presents innumerable challenges to its growing population. …
Seeking the Greatest Good
The Conservation Legacy of Gifford Pinchot
Av Char Miller
Häftad, 2013
403 kr
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President John F. Kennedy officially dedicated the Pinchot Institute for Conservation Studies on September 24, 1963 to further the legacy and activism of conservationist Gifford Pinchot (1865–1946). Pinchot was the first chief of the United States Forest Service, appointed by Theodore Roosevelt in …
America's Great National Forests, Wildernesses, and Grasslands
Av Char Miller, Scott J. Tilden
Inbunden, 2016
374 kr
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For more than a century, America's national forests have proved an environmental gift and cultural treasure, our spectacular backyard. Under the management of the U.S. Forest Service, this system of public lands encompasses 193 million acres of mountains, prairies, rivers, and canyons-much of it …
Cities and Nature in the American West
Av Char Miller
Häftad, 2010
396 kr
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In less than a century, the American West has transformed from a predominantly rural region to one where most people live in metropolitan centers. Cities and Nature in the American West offers provocative analyses of this transformation. Each essay explores the intersection of environmental, urban, …
Death Valley National Park
A History
Av Hal K. Rothman, Char Miller
Häftad, 2013
273 kr
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The first comprehensive study of the park, past and present, Death Valley National Park probes the environmental and human history of this most astonishing desert. Established as a national monument in 1933, Death Valley was an anomaly within the national park system. Though many who knew this …
Yale School of the Environment
The First 125 Years
Av James G. Lewis, Char Miller m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
622 kr
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Urban Texas
Politics and Development
Av Char Miller, Heywood T. Sanders
Häftad, 2000
225 kr
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Atlas of U.S. and Canadian Environmental History
Av Char Miller
E-bok, 2003
4369 kr
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This visually dynamic historical atlas chronologically covers American environmental history through the use of four-color maps, photos, and diagrams, and in written entries from well known scholars.Organized into seven categories, each chapter covers: agriculture * wildlife and forestry * land use …
Atlas of U.S. and Canadian Environmental History
Av Char Miller
E-bok, 2003
4369 kr
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This visually dynamic historical atlas chronologically covers American environmental history through the use of four-color maps, photos, and diagrams, and in written entries from well known scholars.Organized into seven categories, each chapter covers: agriculture * wildlife and forestry * land use …
Theodore Roosevelt, Naturalist in the Arena
Av Char Miller, Clay S. Jenkinson
Häftad, 2020
284 kr
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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 …
Forty Years a Forester
Häftad, 2019
292 kr
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Elers Koch, a key figure in the early days of the U.S. Forest Service, was among the first American-trained silviculturists, a pioneering forest manager, and a master firefighter. By horse and on foot, he helped establish the boundaries of most of our national forests in the West, designed new …
Fifty Years of the Texas Observer
Av Char Miller
Häftad, 2004
218 kr
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For the past five decades the Texas Observer has been an essential voice in Texas culture and politics, championing honest government, civil rights, labor, and the environment, while providing a platform for many of the state's most passionate and progressive voices. Included are ninety-one …
Fifty Years of the Texas Observer
Av Char Miller
E-bok, 2012
246 kr
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For the past five decades the Texas Observer has been an essential voice in Texas culture and politics, championing honest government, civil rights, labor, and the environment, while providing a platform for many of the state’s most passionate and progressive voices. Included are ninety-one …
Deep in the Heart of San Antonio
Land and Life in South Texas
Av Char Miller
E-bok, 2012
205 kr
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Char Miller''s collection of essays provides an insightful survey of San Antonio and South Texas. The essays are grouped into six thematic sections: an overview; natural and environmental history; water issues; urban development; politics; and the city''s future. Miller describes the First Friday …
On the Edge
Water, Immigration, and Politics in the Southwest
Av Char Miller
E-bok, 2013
182 kr
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On the Edge grew out of a lifetime spent living and traveling across the American Southwest, from San Antonio to Los Angeles. Char Miller examines this borderland region through a native''s eyes and contemplates its considerable conflicts. Internal to the various US states and Mexico''s northern …
Not So Golden State
Sustainability vs. the California Dream
Av Char Miller
E-bok, 2016
186 kr
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In Not So Golden State , leading environmental historian Char Miller looks below the surface of California''s ecological history to expose some of its less glittering conundrums. In this necessary work, Miller asks tough questions as we stand at the edge of a human-induced natural disaster in the …
West Side Rising
How San Antonio's 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement
Av Char Miller
Häftad, 2022
146 kr
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On September 9, 1921, a tropical depression stalled just north of San Antonio and within hours overwhelmed its winding network of creeks and rivers. Floodwaters ripped through the city’s Latino West Side neighborhoods, killing more than eighty people. Meanwhile a wall of water crashed into the …
Natural Consequences
Av Char Miller
Häftad, 2022
166 kr
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Drought and fires, floods and rising tides: These and other climate-driven forces are compelling us to examine our role as inhabitants of our imperiled planet. In over forty vitally important essays and vignettes, Natural Consequences is Char Miller’s literary tour de force that illuminates the …
Natural Consequences: Intimate Essays for a Planet in Peril
Av Char Miller
E-bok, 2022
220 kr
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Drought and fires, floods and rising tides: These and other climate-driven forces are compelling us to examine our role as inhabitants of our imperiled planet. In over forty vitally important essays and vignettes, Natural Consequences is Char Miller’s literary tour de force that illuminates the …
Nature and Place in Texas
A History
Av Char Miller, Char Miller m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
458 kr
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Texas history is often recounted through tales of revolution, oil booms, and cattle drives. But what if we considered a different lens—one shaped by wind and wildfire, rivers and drought, grasslands and pine forests?Nature and Place in Texas reimagines the Lone Star story by centering its …
