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Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies
Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgias Little Grand Canyon, preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the …
Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture
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 …
Debating Malthus
Introducing students to the place of population in environmental thinkingFor centuries, thinking about the earth's increasing human population has been tied to environmental ideas …
Smell Detectives
What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenth-century …
Defending Giants
Giant redwoods are American icons, paragons of grandeur, exceptionalism, and endurance. They are also symbols of conflict and negotiation, remnants of environmental battles over …
Seeds of Control
Conservation as a tool of colonialism in early twentieth-century KoreaJapanese colonial rule in Korea (19051945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly …
Wetlands in a Dry Land
Winner of the Inaugural Book Prize from the Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand Environmental History NetworkA compelling environmental history of a critical ecosystem under threatIn …
Bringing Whales Ashore
Japan today defends its controversial whaling expeditions by invoking traditionbut what was the historical reality? In examining the techniques and impacts of whaling during the …
Environmental Justice in Postwar America
In the decades after World War II, the American economy entered a period of prolonged growth that created unprecedented affluencebut these developments came at the cost of a host …
Communist Pigs
The pig played a key role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles. By the mid-1980s, East Germany …
Making Climate Change History
This collection pulls together key documents from the scientific and political history of climate change, including congressional testimony, scientific papers, newspaper …