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An Environmental History of Russia
The former Soviet empire spanned eleven time zones and contained half the world's forests; vast deposits of oil, gas and coal; various ores; major rivers such as the Volga, Don and …
Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World
For centuries, bird guano has played a pivotal role in the agricultural and economic development of Latin America, East Asia and Oceania. As their populations ballooned during the …
Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt
Challenging the conventional wisdom conveyed by Western environmental historians about China, this book examines the correlations between economic and environmental changes in the …
The River, the Plain, and the State
On July 19, 1048, the Yellow River breached its banks, drastically changing its course across the Hebei Plain and turning it into a delta where the river sought a path out to the …
Pemmican Empire
In the British territories of the North American Great Plains, food figured as a key trading commodity after 1780, when British and Canadian fur companies purchased ever-larger …
The Bulldozer in the Countryside
The concern today about suburban sprawl is not new. In the decades after World War II, the spread of tract-house construction changed the nature of millions of acres of land, and a …
The Guts of the Matter
The Guts of the Matter is a study of our oldest ecological problem: the transmission of infectious intestinal disease from human waste. Spanning the early hominin era to the …
The Danish Revolution, 1500–1800
This book tells the story of a fertile European country that, as a result of over-population and military armament, over-exploited its fields and forests in a non-sustainable …
The Nature of Disaster in China
In 1931, China suffered a catastrophic flood that claimed millions of lives. This was neither a natural nor human-made disaster. Rather, it was created by an interaction between …
Mao's War against Nature
Judith Shapiro, in clear and compelling prose, relates the great, untold story of the devastating impact of Chinese politics on China’s environment during the Mao years. Maoist …
Pipe Dreams
The drying up of the Aral Sea - a major environmental catastrophe of the late twentieth century - is deeply rooted in the dreams of the irrigation age of the late nineteenth and …
Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt
In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both …