Environmental History

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environmental history
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
af Jared M. Diamond
12,243 medlemmer
183 anmeldelser
3.9
3 Members
aulsmith, kerrygiven, GerrysBookshelf
2
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
af Charles C. Mann
7,309 medlemmer
198 anmeldelser
4.2
3 Members
inge87, kerrygiven, GerrysBookshelf
3
Det tavse forår
af Rachel Carson
6,572 medlemmer
98 anmeldelser
4
3 Members
inge87, spiphany, GerrysBookshelf
4
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
af Aldo Leopold
4,422 medlemmer
59 anmeldelser
4.2
3 Members
lquilter, spiphany, kerrygiven
5
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
af Mark Kurlansky
3,253 medlemmer
68 anmeldelser
3.9
2 Members
kerrygiven, GerrysBookshelf
6
Arctic Dreams
af Barry Lopez
1,963 medlemmer
40 anmeldelser
4.1
2 Members
bluepiano, GerrysBookshelf
7
Vejen til verden af i dag
af Jared Diamond
25,111 medlemmer
376 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
GerrysBookshelf
8
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
af Charles C. Mann
2,471 medlemmer
65 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
GerrysBookshelf
9
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300–1850
af Brian M. Fagan
881 medlemmer
12 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
spiphany
10
The Social Conquest of Earth
af Edward O. Wilson
861 medlemmer
19 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
Member
spiphany
11
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
af Alfred W. Crosby
806 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
4.2
Member
spiphany
12
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
af Mike Davis
692 medlemmer
6 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
aulsmith
13
Wilderness and the American Mind
af Roderick Nash
649 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 4.3
Member
spiphany
14
The Frontier in American History
af Frederick Jackson Turner
509 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
spiphany
15
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
af David R. Montgomery
452 medlemmer
8 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
GerrysBookshelf
16
Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World
af J. R. McNeill
394 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
4
Member
spiphany
17
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
af Brian Fagan
376 medlemmer
6 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
Member
kerrygiven
18
The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
af Paul Bogard
354 medlemmer
16 anmeldelser
4.2
Member
inge87
19
Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s
af Donald Worster
349 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
3.9
Member
spiphany
20
Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization
af David Keys
349 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
Member
bluepiano
21
Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage
af William L. Rathje
344 medlemmer
9 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
aulsmith
22
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
af William Stolzenburg
281 medlemmer
30 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
Member
kerrygiven
23
Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect That Shaped the American Frontier
af Jeffrey A. Lockwood
233 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
Member
inge87
24
The Conquest of Nature
af David Blackbourn
182 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Member
spiphany
25
The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea
af Callum Roberts
175 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
4.2
Member
inge87
26
Tambora. The Eruption that Changed the World
af Gillen D'Arcy Wood
154 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
Member
inge87
27
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
af Kristin Ohlson
153 medlemmer
8 anmeldelser
4.2
Member
inge87
28
Otter Country
af Miriam Darlington
79 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
Member
inge87
29
Rat Island: Predators in Paradise and the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue
af William Stolzenburg
79 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
½ 3.5
Member
kerrygiven
30
Emerald City : An Environmental History of Seattle
af Matthew Klingle
72 medlemmer
3.8
Member
TBergen
31
Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment
af Joachim Radkau
63 medlemmer
3.9
Member
spiphany
32
Concrete Jungle : A Pop Media Investigation of Death and Survival in Urban Ecosystems
af Mark Dion
51 medlemmer
½ 3.6
Member
bluepiano
Forklaringer
bluepiano: It's an anthology rather than a monograph, but it's otherwise very appropriate.
33
Shallow Water Dictionary
af John Stilgoe
50 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 4.3
Member
bluepiano
Forklaringer
bluepiano: Not a dictionary, but a sort of elegy to the coastal marshes of eastern US
34
Thirst: Water and Power in the Ancient World
af Steven Mithen
48 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.3
Member
inge87
35
My Backyard Jungle: The Adventures of an Urban Wildlife Lover who Turned his Yard into Habitat and Learned to Live with It
af James Barilla
42 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
4
Member
inge87
36
The End is Nigh: A History of Natural Disasters
af Henrik Svensen
22 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
3
Member
bluepiano
37
Prairie Time: A Blackland Portrait
af Matt White
14 medlemmer
4
Member
inge87
38
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
af Michael Pollan
13,933 medlemmer
351 anmeldelser
4.2
39
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
af William Cronon
1,398 medlemmer
13 anmeldelser
4.2
40
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
af Wendell Berry
1,289 medlemmer
10 anmeldelser
4.2
41
Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
af William Cronon
378 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
4
42
The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River
af Richard White
241 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
4
43
The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century
af William Rosen
236 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
44
Driven Wild: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement
af Paul S. Sutter
47 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
45
Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History (Studies in Environment and History)
af Gregory T. Cushman
32 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
3
47
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
af William Cronon
1,039 medlemmer
14 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
48
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
af Marc Reisner
1,759 medlemmer
35 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
49
The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492
af Alfred W. Crosby
532 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
4
50
The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920
af Andrew C. Isenberg
108 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
3.8
51
Late Victorian Holocausts
af Mike Davis
685 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
4.1
52
A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
af Clive Ponting
334 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
3.9
53
Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History
af Ted Steinberg
189 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
4.2
54
Flight Maps: Adventures With Nature In Modern America
af Jennifer Price
180 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
½ 3.4
55
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
af Tim Flannery
531 medlemmer
11 anmeldelser
4
56
Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
af Donald Worster
196 medlemmer
4.1
57
The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination
af Donald Worster
71 medlemmer
4
58
The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
af Carolyn Merchant
412 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
4
59
The Ecological Indian: Myth and History
af Shepard III Krech
257 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
3.8
60
The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China
af Mark Elvin
108 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 4.6
61
Major problems in environmental history
af Carolyn Merchant
94 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
3.2
62
The Roots of Dependency: Subsistance, Environment, and Social Change among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos
af Richard White
93 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.6
63
The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on Modern Environmental History
af Donald Worster
48 medlemmer
64
The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World (California World History Library)
af John F. Richards
45 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
4
65
Civilizations : Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature
af Felipe Fernández-Armesto
690 medlemmer
8 anmeldelser
3.9
66
The Bulldozer in the Countryside
af Adam Rome
122 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
4
67
Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914
af J. R. McNeill
111 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
68
Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire
af Stephen J. Pyne
74 medlemmer
½ 4.5
69
Vestal Fire: An Environmental History, Told Through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World
af Stephen J. Pyne
68 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
3.8
70
The Earth transformed : an untold history
af Peter Frankopan
396 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
3.8
71
Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash
af Susan Strasser
226 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
3.9
72
Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America
af Virginia DeJohn Anderson
165 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.7
73
Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West
af Donald Worster
104 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
4
74
Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England
af Carolyn Merchant
100 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
3.9
75
The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States
af Mark Fiege
91 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
3.1
76
Land Use, Environment, and Social Change: The Shaping of Island County, Washington
af Richard White
46 medlemmer
½ 4.3
77
The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History
af Anthony N. Penna
18 medlemmer
3
78
Verden uden os
af Alan Weisman
5,944 medlemmer
188 anmeldelser
3.8
79
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
af Timothy Egan
1,435 medlemmer
67 anmeldelser
4
80
The Great Plains
af Walter Prescott Webb
316 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
3.9
81
The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado
af Elliott West
251 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
4.2
82
Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas
af Donald Worster
249 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
4.1
83
Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage
af Heather Rogers
200 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
½ 3.5
84
A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
af Clive Ponting
195 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
½ 3.4
85
Traces on the Rhodian shore : nature and culture in Western thought from ancient times to the end of the eighteenth century
af Clarence J. Glacken
107 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.6
86
Forcing the Spring: The Transformation Of The American Environmental Movement
af Robert Gottlieb
88 medlemmer
½ 3.5
87
Vicious: Wolves and Men in America
af Jon T. Coleman
76 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
½ 3.5
88
The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land
af Conevery Bolton Valencius
74 medlemmer
3.8
91
The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail
af W. Jeffrey Bolster
72 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
4.8
92
Conservation And The Gospel Of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890-1920
af Samuel P. Hays
68 medlemmer
3
93
Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States
af John Soluri
46 medlemmer
½ 3.5
94
What is Environmental History (What is History series)
af J. D. Hughes
42 medlemmer
4
96
Environmental History of Latin America
af Shawn William Miller
31 medlemmer
4
97
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
af Robin Wall Kimmerer
4,198 medlemmer
120 anmeldelser
½ 4.5
98
Plagues and People
af William H. McNeill
1,891 medlemmer
20 anmeldelser
4
99
Landscape and Memory
af Simon Schama
1,632 medlemmer
13 anmeldelser
4.1
100
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
af David Quammen
1,453 medlemmer
20 anmeldelser
½ 4.4