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45 produkter
Shrinking the Earth
The Rise and Decline of Natural Abundance
E-bok, 2016
208 kr
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The discovery of the Americas around 1500 AD was an extraordinary watershed in human experience. It gave rise to the modern period of human ecology, a phenomenon global in scope that set in motion profound changes in almost every society on earth. This new period, which saw the depletion of the …
Shrinking the Earth
The Rise and Decline of American Abundance
Häftad, 2018
336 kr
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The discovery of the Americas around 1500 AD was an extraordinary watershed in human experience. It gave rise to the modern period of human ecology, a phenomenon global in scope that set in motion profound changes in almost every society on earth. This new period, which saw the depletion of the …
Rivers of Empire
Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
Häftad, 1992
250 kr
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Donald Worster examines the development history of the American West, identifying the élite of technology and wealth who have controlled its most essential resource: water.
Under Western Skies
Nature and History in the American West
Häftad, 1994
351 kr
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For decades, the story of the American West has been told as a glorious tale of conquest and rugged individualism - the triumph of progress. But recently, a new school of historians has challenged this view, creating what is known as the 'new western history', an approach that gives a central role …
Wealth of Nature
Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination
Häftad, 1994
384 kr
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Hailed as "one of the most eminent environmental historians of the West" by Alan Brinkley in The New York Times Book Review, Donald Worster has been a leader in reshaping the study of American history. Winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for his book Dust Bowl, Worster has helped bring …
A River Running West
The Life of John Wesley Powell
Häftad, 2002
448 kr
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If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedicated conservationist, Powell led the expedition that put the Colorado River on American maps and revealed the Grand …
A Passion for Nature
The Life of John Muir
Inbunden, 2009
491 kr
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"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special self is nothing."In Donald Worster's …
Dust Bowl
The Southern Plains in the 1930s
Häftad, 2004
320 kr
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In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms.Now, twenty-five years …
River Running West
The Life of John Wesley Powell
E-bok, 2000
195 kr
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If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian''s lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedicated conservationist, Powell led the expedition that put the Colorado River on American maps and revealed the Grand …
Wealth of Nature
Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination
E-bok, 1994
283 kr
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Hailed as "one of the most eminent environmental historians of the West" by Alan Brinkley in The New York Times Book Review , Donald Worster has been a leader in reshaping the study of American history. Winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for his book Dust Bowl , Worster has helped bring …
Passion for Nature
The Life of John Muir
E-bok, 2008
182 kr
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"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature''s loveliness. My own special self is nothing."In Donald Worster''s …
Dust Bowl
The Southern Plains in the 1930s
E-bok, 2004
177 kr
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In the mid 1930s, North America''s Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster''s classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms.Now, twenty-five years …
A Passion for Nature
The Life of John Muir
Häftad, 2011
362 kr
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Donald Worster's A Passion for Nature is the most complete account of the great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club ever written. It is the first to be based on Muir's full private correspondence and to meet modern scholarly standards, yet it is also full of rich detail and personal …
Passion for Nature
The Life of John Muir
E-bok, 2008
182 kr
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"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature''s loveliness. My own special self is nothing."In Donald Worster''s …
River Running West
The Life of John Wesley Powell
E-bok, 2002
195 kr
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If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian''s lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedicated conservationist, Powell led the expedition that put the Colorado River on American maps and revealed the Grand …
Shrinking the Earth
The Rise and Decline of American Abundance
Inbunden, 2016
418 kr
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The discovery of the Americas around 1500 AD was an extraordinary watershed in human experience. It gave rise to the modern period of human ecology, a phenomenon global in scope that set in motion profound changes in almost every society on earth. This new period, which saw the depletion of the …
Shrinking the Earth
The Rise and Decline of Natural Abundance
E-bok, 2016
208 kr
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The discovery of the Americas around 1500 AD was an extraordinary watershed in human experience. It gave rise to the modern period of human ecology, a phenomenon global in scope that set in motion profound changes in almost every society on earth. This new period, which saw the depletion of the …
Be Fruitful and Multiply
How Fertility and Innovation Have Changed Humankind and the Earth
Inbunden, 2025
304 kr
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A groundbreaking history that explores how human desires have affected our relationship with the natural world, and why this is a cause for hope Donald Worster looks back over 200,000 years of Homo sapiens sapiens to show how human nature, especially the drive for food and sex, has responded to …
Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt
Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China
Av Robert Marks, Donald Worster m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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Challenging the conventional wisdom conveyed by Western environmental historians about China, this book examines the correlations between economic and environmental changes in the southern Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi from 1400 to 1850, but also provides substantial background from …
The Fisherman's Problem
Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980
Av Arthur F. McEvoy, Donald Worster m. fl.
Inbunden, 1986
1928 kr
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The living resources of California's rivers and coastal waters are among the most varied and productive in the world. They also offer a laboratory example of the mismanagement and waste that have attended the settlement and development of the North American continent. The Fisherman's Problem is a …
Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber
A Study in Environmental History
Av Warren Dean, Donald Worster m. fl.
Inbunden, 1987
1677 kr
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Brazil once enjoyed a near monopoly in rubber when the commodity was gathered in the wild. By 1913, however, cultivated rubber in South-east Asia swept the Brazilian gathered product from the market. In this innovative study, Warren Dean demonstrates that environmental factors have played a key …
The Ends of the Earth
Perspectives on Modern Environmental History
Inbunden, 1989
1514 kr
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Since 1492, when Columbus 'discovered' America, the world has been moving toward an increasingly integrated global economy, higher population levels and consequently greater resource demands, and an increasingly precarious state of the biosphere. These developments play a major part in both modern …
The Ends of the Earth
Perspectives on Modern Environmental History
Häftad, 1989
569 kr
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Since 1492, when Columbus 'discovered' America, the world has been moving toward an increasingly integrated global economy, higher population levels and consequently greater resource demands, and an increasingly precarious state of the biosphere. These developments play a major part in both modern …
The Fisherman's Problem
Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980
Av Arthur F. McEvoy, Donald Worster m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
569 kr
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The living resources of California's rivers and coastal waters are among the most varied and productive in the world. They also offer a laboratory example of the mismanagement and waste that have attended the settlement and development of the North American continent. The Fisherman's Problem is a …
Beauty, Health, and Permanence
Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955-1985
Av Samuel P. Hays, Donald Worster m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
719 kr
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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 …
Green Imperialism
Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860
Av Richard H. Grove, Donald Worster
Inbunden, 1995
1526 kr
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This is the first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, concentrating especially on its hitherto unexplained colonial and global aspects. It highlights the significance of Utopian, physiocratic and medical thinking in the history of environmental ideas. The book shows …
Americans and their Forests
A Historical Geography
Av Michael Williams, Donald Worster m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
846 kr
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When Europeans first reached the land that would become the United States they were staggered by the breadth and density of the forest they found. The existence of that forest, and the effort either to use or subdue it, have been constant themes in American history, literature, economics, and …
Nature's Economy
A History of Ecological Ideas
Av Donald Worster, Donald Worster m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
536 kr
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Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past, first published in 1994. 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. Our view of the living world is a product …
The Mountains of the Mediterranean World
Av J. R. McNeill, Donald Worster
Häftad, 2003
586 kr
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This book describes and analyses the environmental history of the mountain areas of the Mediterranean world, focusing on Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Morocco. The author examines the land and its people and concludes that great changes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries created the …
The Caribbean Slave
A Biological History
Av Kenneth F. Kiple, Donald Worster m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
927 kr
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This study focuses on the black biological experience in slavery, in the Caribbean. It begins with a consideration of the rapidly changing disease environment after the arrival of the Spaniards; it also looks at the slave ancestors in their West African homeland and examines the ways in which the …
