Environmental History Series – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Environmental History Series. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
10 produkter
On the Great Plains
Agriculture and Environment
Av Geoff Cunfer
Inbunden, 2005
621 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Depending on who is telling it, the history of Euro-American farmers on the Great Plains has been a story of either agricultural triumph or ecological failure - an optimistic tale of taming nature for human purposes or a dire account of disrupting nature and suffering the environmental …
On the Great Plains
Agriculture and Environment
Av Geoff Cunfer
Häftad, 2005
444 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Depending on who is telling it, the history of Euro-American farmers on the Great Plains has been a story of either agricultural triumph or ecological failure - an optimistic tale of taming nature for human purposes or a dire account of disrupting nature and suffering the environmental …
National Environmental Policy Act
Judicial Misconstruction, Legislative Indifference, and Executive Neglect
Av Matthew J. Lindstrom, Zachary A. Smith
Häftad, 2008
227 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Growing public concerns about environmental degradation and the compromised integrity of the earth's ecological system spurred Congress to pass the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), the first law to focus such environmental concerns into a comprehensive national policy.Though NEPA …
Bound in Twine
The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950
Häftad, 2013
341 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Before the invention of the combine, the binder was an essential harvesting implement that cut grain and bound the stalks in bundles tied with twine that could then be hand-gathered into shocks for threshing. Hundreds of thousands of farmers across the United States and Canada relied on binders and …
Don't Breathe the Air
Air Pollution and U.S. Environmental Politics, 1945-1970
Inbunden, 2000
467 kr
Tillfälligt slut
This work is a comprehensive examination of the role of air pollution and citizen activism during the rise of environmentalism in the post-World War II United States. It clearly lays out the issues and strategies that prepared the way for the federal clean air legislation of the 1970s.
On the River with Lewis and Clark
Av Huser
Häftad, 2004
202 kr
Tillfälligt slut
On their remarkable journey across the North American continent, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's ""Corps of Discovery"" traveled almost ten thousand miles, about nine thousand of them on rivers - the Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri, Jefferson, Beaverhead, Clearwater, Snake, Columbia, and …
Building the Borderlands
A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton Along the Mexico-Texas Border
Av Casey Walsh
Inbunden, 2008
537 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Cotton, crucial to the economy of the American South, has also played a vital role in the making of the Mexican north. The Lower Rio Bravo (Rio Grande) Valley irrigation zone on the border with Texas in northern Tamaulipas, Mexico, was the centerpiece of the Cardenas government's effort to make …
Holy Ground, Healing Water
Cultural Landscapes at Waconda Springs, Kansas
Häftad, 2010
244 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Most people would not consider north central Kansas’ Waconda Lake to be extraordinary. The lake, completed in 1969 by the federal Bureau of Reclamation for flood control, irrigation, and water supply purposes, sits amid a region known—when it is thought of at all—for agriculture and, perhaps to a …
