Environmental History

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environmental history
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
por Jared M. Diamond
12,212 membros
183 críticas
3.9
3 Members
aulsmith, kerrygiven, GerrysBookshelf
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
por Charles C. Mann
7,272 membros
196 críticas
4.2
3 Members
inge87, kerrygiven, GerrysBookshelf
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Silent Spring
por Rachel Carson
6,512 membros
97 críticas
4
3 Members
inge87, spiphany, GerrysBookshelf
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
por Aldo Leopold
4,379 membros
59 críticas
4.2
3 Members
lquilter, spiphany, kerrygiven
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
por Mark Kurlansky
3,243 membros
68 críticas
3.9
2 Members
kerrygiven, GerrysBookshelf
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Arctic Dreams
por Barry Lopez
1,946 membros
40 críticas
4.1
2 Members
bluepiano, GerrysBookshelf
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
por Jared Diamond
24,985 membros
376 críticas
4.1
Member
GerrysBookshelf
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
por Charles C. Mann
2,455 membros
64 críticas
4.1
Member
GerrysBookshelf
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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300–1850
por Brian M. Fagan
874 membros
12 críticas
3.8
Member
spiphany
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The Social Conquest of Earth
por Edward O. Wilson
856 membros
19 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
spiphany
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Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
por Alfred W. Crosby
806 membros
5 críticas
4.2
Member
spiphany
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Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
por Mike Davis
690 membros
6 críticas
4.1
Member
aulsmith
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Wilderness and the American Mind
por Roderick Nash
645 membros
1 crítica
½ 4.3
Member
spiphany
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The Frontier in American History
por Frederick Jackson Turner
505 membros
7 críticas
3.9
Member
spiphany
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Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
por David R. Montgomery
448 membros
8 críticas
4.1
Member
GerrysBookshelf
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Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World
por J. R. McNeill
394 membros
2 críticas
4
Member
spiphany
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The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
por Brian Fagan
376 membros
6 críticas
½ 3.6
Member
kerrygiven
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The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
por Paul Bogard
351 membros
16 críticas
4.2
Member
inge87
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Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization
por David Keys
349 membros
5 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
bluepiano
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Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s
por Donald Worster
348 membros
1 crítica
3.9
Member
spiphany
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Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage
por William L. Rathje
342 membros
9 críticas
4.1
Member
aulsmith
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Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
por William Stolzenburg
281 membros
30 críticas
½ 4.4
Member
kerrygiven
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The Conquest of Nature
por David Blackbourn
182 membros
2 críticas
½ 4.3
Member
spiphany
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The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea
por Callum Roberts
172 membros
4 críticas
4.2
Member
inge87
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Tambora. The Eruption that Changed the World
por Gillen D'Arcy Wood
153 membros
7 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
inge87
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The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
por Kristin Ohlson
150 membros
8 críticas
4.2
Member
inge87
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Rat Island: Predators in Paradise and the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue
por William Stolzenburg
79 membros
4 críticas
½ 3.5
Member
kerrygiven
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Otter Country
por Miriam Darlington
78 membros
5 críticas
½ 3.6
Member
inge87
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Emerald City : An Environmental History of Seattle
por Matthew Klingle
73 membros
3.8
Member
TBergen
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Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment
por Joachim Radkau
63 membros
3.9
Member
spiphany
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Concrete Jungle : A Pop Media Investigation of Death and Survival in Urban Ecosystems
por Mark Dion
51 membros
½ 3.6
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: It's an anthology rather than a monograph, but it's otherwise very appropriate.
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Shallow Water Dictionary
por John Stilgoe
50 membros
1 crítica
½ 4.3
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: Not a dictionary, but a sort of elegy to the coastal marshes of eastern US
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Thirst: Water and Power in the Ancient World
por Steven Mithen
47 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.3
Member
inge87
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The End is Nigh: A History of Natural Disasters
por Henrik Svensen
22 membros
1 crítica
3
Member
bluepiano
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Prairie Time: A Blackland Portrait
por Matt White
14 membros
4
Member
inge87
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
por Michael Pollan
13,913 membros
351 críticas
4.2
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Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
por William Cronon
1,393 membros
13 críticas
4.2
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The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
por Wendell Berry
1,281 membros
10 críticas
4.2
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Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
por William Cronon
377 membros
3 críticas
4
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The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River
por Richard White
237 membros
3 críticas
3.9
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The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century
por William Rosen
234 membros
5 críticas
½ 3.6
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Driven Wild: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement
por Paul S. Sutter
47 membros
2 críticas
½ 3.6
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
por William Cronon
1,037 membros
14 críticas
½ 4.3
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
por Marc Reisner
1,748 membros
35 críticas
½ 4.3
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The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492
por Alfred W. Crosby
530 membros
7 críticas
4
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The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920
por Andrew C. Isenberg
108 membros
1 crítica
3.8
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Late Victorian Holocausts
por Mike Davis
679 membros
7 críticas
4.1
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A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
por Clive Ponting
334 membros
3 críticas
3.9
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Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History
por Ted Steinberg
187 membros
1 crítica
4.2
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Flight Maps: Adventures With Nature In Modern America
por Jennifer Price
180 membros
3 críticas
½ 3.4
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The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
por Tim Flannery
532 membros
11 críticas
4
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Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
por Donald Worster
196 membros
4.1
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The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination
por Donald Worster
70 membros
4
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The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
por Carolyn Merchant
410 membros
4 críticas
4
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The Ecological Indian: Myth and History
por Shepard III Krech
256 membros
2 críticas
3.8
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The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China
por Mark Elvin
108 membros
1 crítica
½ 4.6
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Major problems in environmental history
por Carolyn Merchant
94 membros
1 crítica
3.2
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The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on Modern Environmental History
por Donald Worster
48 membros
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Civilizations : Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature
por Felipe Fernández-Armesto
690 membros
8 críticas
3.9
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The Bulldozer in the Countryside
por Adam Rome
122 membros
2 críticas
4
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Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914
por J. R. McNeill
112 membros
2 críticas
½ 4.4
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Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire
por Stephen J. Pyne
74 membros
½ 4.5
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The Earth transformed : an untold history
por Peter Frankopan
378 membros
4 críticas
3.9
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Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash
por Susan Strasser
225 membros
1 crítica
3.9
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Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America
por Virginia DeJohn Anderson
163 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.7
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Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West
por Donald Worster
104 membros
2 críticas
4
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Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England
por Carolyn Merchant
100 membros
2 críticas
3.9
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The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States
por Mark Fiege
91 membros
1 crítica
3.1
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Land Use, Environment, and Social Change: The Shaping of Island County, Washington
por Richard White
46 membros
½ 4.3
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The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History
por Anthony N. Penna
18 membros
3
78
The World Without Us
por Alan Weisman
5,933 membros
188 críticas
3.8
79
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
por Timothy Egan
1,431 membros
67 críticas
4
80
The Great Plains
por Walter Prescott Webb
314 membros
1 crítica
3.9
81
The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado
por Elliott West
252 membros
3 críticas
4.2
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Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas
por Donald Worster
246 membros
1 crítica
4.1
83
Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage
por Heather Rogers
200 membros
7 críticas
½ 3.5
84
A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
por Clive Ponting
195 membros
5 críticas
½ 3.4
86
Forcing the Spring: The Transformation Of The American Environmental Movement
por Robert Gottlieb
87 membros
½ 3.5
87
Vicious: Wolves and Men in America
por Jon T. Coleman
76 membros
2 críticas
½ 3.5
91
The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail
por W. Jeffrey Bolster
72 membros
1 crítica
4.8
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What is Environmental History (What is History series)
por J. D. Hughes
42 membros
4
96
Environmental History of Latin America
por Shawn William Miller
31 membros
4
97
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
por Robin Wall Kimmerer
4,083 membros
117 críticas
½ 4.4
98
Plagues and People
por William H. McNeill
1,877 membros
20 críticas
4
99
Landscape and Memory
por Simon Schama
1,623 membros
13 críticas
4.1
100
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
por David Quammen
1,451 membros
20 críticas
½ 4.4