Changes in the Land
Title | Changes in the Land PDF eBook |
Author | William Cronon |
Publisher | Hill and Wang |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2011-04-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 142992828X |
The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos, Changes in the Land, provides a brilliant inter-disciplinary interpretation of how land and people influence one another. With its chilling closing line, "The people of plenty were a people of waste," Cronon's enduring and thought-provoking book is ethno-ecological history at its best.
Land Use, Environment, and Social Change
Title | Land Use, Environment, and Social Change PDF eBook |
Author | Richard White |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2000-12-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0295980540 |
Whidbey and Camano, two of the largest of the numerous beautiful islands dotting Puget Sound, together form the major part of Island Country. Taking this county as a case study and following its history from Indian times to the present, Richard White explores the complex relationship between human induced environmental change and social change. This new edition of his classic study includes a new preface by the author and a foreword by William Cronon.
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
Title | Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West PDF eBook |
Author | William Cronon |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 590 |
Release | 2009-11-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0393072452 |
A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel." —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe
Changes in Land Use and Land Cover
Title | Changes in Land Use and Land Cover PDF eBook |
Author | William B. Meyer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 570 |
Release | 1994-09-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521470858 |
This book analyses the impact of human activities on the Earth's surface and environment.
Land-Use and Land-Cover Change
Title | Land-Use and Land-Cover Change PDF eBook |
Author | Eric F. Lambin |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2008-01-08 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 3540322027 |
This book presents recent estimates on the rate of change of major land classes. Aggregated globally, multiple impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect central aspects of Earth System functioning. The book offers innovative developments and applications in the fields of modeling and scenario construction. Conclusions are also drawn about the most pressing implications for the design of appropriate intervention policies.
Violence over the Land
Title | Violence over the Land PDF eBook |
Author | Ned BLACKHAWK |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674020995 |
In this ambitious book that ranges across the Great Basin, Blackhawk places Native peoples at the center of a dynamic story as he chronicles two centuries of Indian and imperial history that shaped the American West. This book is a passionate reminder of the high costs that the making of American history occasioned for many indigenous peoples.
How the Indians Lost Their Land
Title | How the Indians Lost Their Land PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart BANNER |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674020537 |
Between the early 17th century and the early 20th, nearly all U.S. land was transferred from American Indians to whites. Banner argues that neither simple coercion nor simple consent reflects the complicated legal history of land transfers--time, place, and the balance of power between Indians and settlers decided the outcome of land struggles.