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  • Beyond the Walls

    New Perspectives on the Archaeology of Historical Households

    Edited by Kevin R. Fogle, James A. Nyman, Mary C. Beaudry ...
    “Thought-provoking and engaging, Beyond the Walls provides new and relevant theoretical perspectives and specific case studies for archaeologists conducting research related to household archaeology. Essential for both students and professionals.”—Mark D. Groover, author of The Archaeology of North American Farmsteads“From ranching stations in Hawai’i to slave quarters in South Carolina, the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Changes in the Land

    Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

    by William Cronon, John Demos ...
    The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated.Winner of the Francis Parkman PrizeIn this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an ... Read more

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  • Black Faces, White Spaces

    Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors

    by Carolyn Finney ...
    Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented by both white and black Americans. Bridging the fields of environmental ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

    Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

    Edited by William Cronon ...
    A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics.In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • American Environmental History

    An Introduction

    by Carolyn Merchant ...
    Series series Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures
    By studying the many ways diverse peoples have changed, shaped, and conserved the natural world over time, environmental historians provide insight into humanity's unique relationship with nature and, more importantly, are better able to understand the origins of our current environmental crisis. Beginning with the precolonial land-use practice of Native Americans and concluding with our twenty ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Land Education

    Rethinking Pedagogies of Place from Indigenous, Postcolonial, and Decolonizing Perspectives

    Edited by Kate McCoy, Eve Tuck, Marcia McKenzie ...
    This important book on Land Education offers critical analysis of the paths forward for education on Indigenous land. This analysis discusses the necessity of centring historical and current contexts of colonization in education on and in relation to land. In addition, contributors explore the intersections of environmentalism and Indigenous rights, in part inspired by the realisation that the ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture

    Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast

    by Paul S Sutter, Paul M Pressly ...
    Series series Environmental History and the American South
    An essay collection exploring the history of 5,000-year relationship between human culture and nature on the Georgia coast.One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. But another distinctive feature of the coast is its deep and diverse human history. Indeed, few places that seem so natural hide so ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Wilderness

    A New History

    Edited by Michael Lewis ...
    This collected volume of original essays proposes to address the state of scholarship on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of Americans responses to wilderness from first contact to the present. While not bringing a synthetic narrative to wilderness, the volume will gather competing interpretations of wilderness in historical context. ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Chiefdoms and Other Archaeological Delusions

    by Timothy R. Pauketat ...
    Series series Issues in Eastern Woodlands Archaeology
    In recent decades anthropology, especially ethnography, has supplied the prevailing models of how human beings have constructed, and been constructed by, their social arrangements. In turn, archaeologists have all too often relied on these models to reconstruct the lives of ancient peoples. In lively, engaging, and informed prose, Timothy Pauketat debunks much of this social-evolutionary ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Black Feminist Archaeology

    by Whitney Battle-Baptiste ...
    Black feminist thought has developed in various parts of the academy for over three decades, but has made only minor inroads into archaeological theory and practice. Whitney Battle-Baptiste outlines the basic tenets of Black feminist thought and research for archaeologists and shows how it can be used to improve contemporary historical archaeology. She demonstrates this using Andrew Jackson‘s ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History

    Edited by Andrew C. Isenberg ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of the most innovative and important new approaches to history, one that bridges the human and natural world, the humanities and the sciences. With the current trend towards internationalizing history, environmental history is perhaps the quintessential approach to studying subjects outside the nation ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Removing Mountains

    Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields

    by Rebecca R. Scott ...
    Series series A Quadrant Book
    A coal mining technique practiced in southern West Virginia known as mountaintop removal is drastically altering the terrain of the Appalachian Mountains. Peaks are flattened and valleys are filled as the coal industry levels thousands of acres of forest to access the coal, in the process turning the forest into scrubby shrublands and poisoning the water. This is dangerous and environmentally ... Read more

    $17.99 USD