Overview :Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past. It traces the origins of the concept, discusses the thinkers who have sh... Read More
Overview :"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has ... Read More
Overview :For decades, the story of the American West has been told as a glorious tale of conquest and rugged individualism--the triumph of progress. ... Read More
Overview :Hailed as "one of the most eminent environmental historians of the West" by Alan Brinkley in The New York Times Book Review, Donald Worster ... Read More
Overview :The discovery of the Americas around 1500 AD was an extraordinary watershed in human experience. It gave rise to the modern period of human ... Read More
Overview :In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's cl... Read More
Overview :The West remains unsettled--by cultural habits, intellectual debate, and ecological conditions. In these four essays, which were presented a... Read More
Overview :If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, carefu... Read More
Overview :A groundbreaking history that explores how human desires have affected our relationship with the natural world, and why this is a cause for ... Read More
Overview :When Henry David Thoreau went for his daily walk, he would consult his instincts on which direction to follow. More often than not his inner... Read More
Overview :Since 1492, when Columbus "discovered" America, the world has been moving toward an increasingly integrated global economy, higher populatio... Read More