Add to ORKGOn its surface, Donald Worster\u27s collection of forceful and eloquent essays appears to revisit the subjects and themes he has explored in his previous books. There are sixteen essays in Wealth of Nature. The first three and the last one explore the concerns and practice of environmental history. Five essays investigate the ecological consequences of American agriculture, particularly in the Great Plains. Worster explored this subject in his Bancroft Prize-winning book, Dust Bowl. The next three essays primarily concern the economic and ecological irrationalities of irrigation in the West, a subject that Worster previously investigated in his book, Rivers of Empire. Finally, the twelfth through fifteenth essays-like Worster\u27s first boo...
In an intensive and methodical manner, Power casts doubt upon notions of environmental protection ch...
This essay explores one way of understanding how concepts of human nature and the natural world evol...
peer reviewedOn the cusp of the 1980s, when it became increasingly apparent that humanity had left i...
On its surface, Donald Worster\u27s collection of forceful and eloquent essays appears to revisit th...
With Shrinking the Earth, Donald Worster makes yet another remarkable addition to an already long li...
No one is a more powerful spokesman for the New Western History than Donald Worster, and no western ...
Prolific environmental historian Dan Flores has gathered together and revised many of his previously...
In this book Taylor traces the evolution of political thought about the environment from within a di...
As editors Steven Petersheim and Madison Jones acknowledge in their Introduction, the field of ecocr...
This is not an environmental history of America. That would require several volumes, as William Cron...
Covering 500 years in 500 pages, Paradise Found details the amazing abundance of the natural world t...
The saving of bison occupies a central place in Nature\u27s Ghosts, but Mark Barrow\u27s chronicle e...
The history of any land begins with nature, and all histories must end with nature, J. Frank Dobie ...
Review of: "Consuming Nature: Environmentalism in the Fox River Valley, 1850–1950," by Gregory Summe...
The essays gathered here respond to a series of conferences collectively titled Reinventing Nature,...
In an intensive and methodical manner, Power casts doubt upon notions of environmental protection ch...
This essay explores one way of understanding how concepts of human nature and the natural world evol...
peer reviewedOn the cusp of the 1980s, when it became increasingly apparent that humanity had left i...
On its surface, Donald Worster\u27s collection of forceful and eloquent essays appears to revisit th...
With Shrinking the Earth, Donald Worster makes yet another remarkable addition to an already long li...
No one is a more powerful spokesman for the New Western History than Donald Worster, and no western ...
Prolific environmental historian Dan Flores has gathered together and revised many of his previously...
In this book Taylor traces the evolution of political thought about the environment from within a di...
As editors Steven Petersheim and Madison Jones acknowledge in their Introduction, the field of ecocr...
This is not an environmental history of America. That would require several volumes, as William Cron...
Covering 500 years in 500 pages, Paradise Found details the amazing abundance of the natural world t...
The saving of bison occupies a central place in Nature\u27s Ghosts, but Mark Barrow\u27s chronicle e...
The history of any land begins with nature, and all histories must end with nature, J. Frank Dobie ...
Review of: "Consuming Nature: Environmentalism in the Fox River Valley, 1850–1950," by Gregory Summe...
The essays gathered here respond to a series of conferences collectively titled Reinventing Nature,...
In an intensive and methodical manner, Power casts doubt upon notions of environmental protection ch...
This essay explores one way of understanding how concepts of human nature and the natural world evol...
peer reviewedOn the cusp of the 1980s, when it became increasingly apparent that humanity had left i...