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Living Beyond the Pale: Environmental Justice and the Roma Minority

Richard Filčák

The Xavánte in transition: health, ecology, and bioanthropology in central Brazil

Carlos Everaldo Alvares Coimbra Junior, Nancy M. Flowers, Francisco M. Salzano and Ricardo V. Santos

Second nature: an environmental history of New England

Richard William Judd

Dancing with disaster: environmental histories, narratives, and ethics for perilous times

Kate Rigby

Hybrid nature: sewage treatment and the contradictions of the industrial ecosystem

Daniel Schneider

Taming Manhattan: environmental battles in the antebellum city

Catherine McNeur

This land, this nation: conservation, rural America, and the New Deal

Sarah T. Phillips

Nature and empire in Ottoman Egypt: an environmental history

Alan Mikhail

Down to earth: nature's role in American history

Theodore Steinberg

Growing American rubber: strategic plants and the politics of national security

Mark R. Finlay

Barry Commoner and the science of survival: the remaking of American environmentalism

Michael Egan

Miles from nowhere: tales from America's contemporary frontier

Dayton Duncan

Late Victorian holocausts: El Niño famines and the making of the third world

Mike Davis

When smoke ran like water: tales of environmental deception and the battle against pollution

Devra Lee Davis

Petrolia: the landscape of America's first oil boom

Brian Black

Pilgrims of the vertical: Yosemite rock climbers and nature at risk

Joseph E. Taylor

Eden on the Charles: the making of Boston

Michael Rawson

Mosquito empires: ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914

John Robert McNeill

A forest on the sea: environmental expertise in Renaissance Venice

Karl Richard Appuhn

Mass destruction: the men and giant mines that wired America and scarred the planet

Timothy J. LeCain

A Venetian island: environment, history and change in Burano

Lidia D. Sciama

Banana cultures: agriculture, consumption, and environmental change in Honduras and the United States

John Soluri

Killing for coal: America's deadliest labor war

Thomas G. Andrews

Plants and empire: colonial bioprospecting in the Atlantic world

Londa L. Schiebinger

Ogallala: water for a dry land

John Opie

A view to a death in the morning: hunting and nature through history

Matt Cartmill

Inhabited wilderness: Indians, Eskimos, and national parks in Alaska

Theodore Catton

Making salmon: an environmental history of the Northwest fisheries crisis

Joseph E. Taylor

Crimes against nature: squatters, poachers, thieves, and the hidden history of American conservation

Karl Jacoby

The health of the country: how American settlers understood themselves and their land

Conevery Bolton Valenčius

Maize and grace: Africa's encounter with a New World crop, 1500-2000

James McCann

Dust Bowl: the southern Plains in the 1930s

Donald Worster