An environmental and cultural history of winter in the colonial Northeast, this book closely examines indigenous and settler knowledge of snow, ice, and life in the cold. A strong addition to the literature on indigenous America and environmental history, this book emphasizes Native perspectives and the science of winter ecology.
An environmental and cultural history of winter in the colonial Northeast, this book closely examines indigenous and settler knowledge of snow, ice, a...
This book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese history, environmental history, and disaster studies. It analyses of one of the most lethal floods in history, exploring its environmental, social, and cultural dimensions. It examines the historical development of water problems in Yangzi region, which remain relevant today.
This book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese history, environmental history, and disaster studies. It analyses of one of the most lethal ...
This book investigates the bitterly contested development of environmental conservation in France from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, suggesting that conflicts over forests between the state, landowning elites, and the peasantry reflected escalating demand for this most vital of natural resources and shaped the country's revolutionary struggles.
This book investigates the bitterly contested development of environmental conservation in France from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, sugg...
Samuel Dolbee explains political and environmental transformations in Middle East history from the late Ottoman Empire to the Second World War by tracing the movement of locusts and their relationship to people in motion and states in the Jazira, the borderlands region of today's Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
Samuel Dolbee explains political and environmental transformations in Middle East history from the late Ottoman Empire to the Second World War by trac...
