A Dictionary of Environmental History
Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism
Inescapable Ecologies : A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge
The Yangtze Simon travels along the Yangtze, discovering a revival of religious faith in China. direct link
Fukushima: the next wave The set of events devastating Northern Japan in March 2011 have coalesced into one word - Fukushima. direct link
Inside Fukushima: beyond the ‘no go’ zone Radiation experts test Pacific Ocean waters surrounding the plant for signs of unsafe levels. direct link
China weighs environmental concerns against economic growth reports from Guangdong province in southern China on the clash between the populous nation's economic ambitions and worsening pollution problems. direct link
Manufactured Landscapes extends the narratives of Burtynsky's photographs, meditating on human impact on the planet without trying to reach simplistic judgements or reductive resolutions. direct link
Earth Days traces the origins of the modern environmental movement through the eyes of nine Americans who propelled the movement from its beginnings in the 1950s to its moment of triumph in 1970 with the original Earth Day and to its status as a major political force in America. direct link
Mysterious Poisons: History and PCBs explains how the PCBs have almost irreparably polluted the globe and still threaten future generations. direct link
The Fight to Save the River discusses both the long-running fight to rescue the Hudson from contamination and the far-reaching environmental legislation that has resulted from that struggle. direct link
Deepwater Horizon, an ecological disaster the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes on April 20, 2010, before sinking into the ocean and causing a gigantic oil spill. direct link
How Climate Made History (vl 2) Is it possible that climate change could have kick-started the end of Antiquity? direct link; also see episode 1
The Big Burn the dramatic story of an unimaginable wildfire that swept across the Northern Rockies in the summer of 1910. direct link
National Parks: The Environmental Challenge a brief history of the national park movement, and the challenges faced by Yellowstone National Park, England’s Lake District National Park, and Australia’s Kakadu National Park. direct link
An Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome - Lively and accessible account of the relationship between man and nature in Graeco-Roman antiquity
Tentsmuir: Ten Thousand Years of Environmental History an attempt to record how even within a limited geographical area plant and animal communities are constantly reacting to environmental change
Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347-1600 a systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death pandemic and the centuries that followed.
The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire explores the serious and far-reaching impacts of Little Ice Age climate fluctuations in Ottoman lands.
Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History examines relations between the Ottoman Empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt
Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa From Morocco to Iran and the Black Sea to the Red, Water on Sand rewrites the history of the Middle East and North Africa from the Little Ice Age to the Cold War era.
Landscape and Environment in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa investigates the "technological pastoral," the points of convergence and conflict between Western notions of pastoral Africa and the introduction of colonial technology, scientific ideas and commodification of land and animals.
Between Ruin and Restoration: An Environmental History of Israel assembles leading experts in policy, history, and activism to address Israel's continuing environmental transformation from the biblical era to the present and beyond, with a particular focus on the past one hundred and fifty years.
Pollution in a Promised Land: An Environmental History of Israel considers the ecological and tactical lessons that emerge from dozens of cases of environmental mishaps, from habitat loss to river reclamation.
Ice Blink: Navigating Northern Environmental History extends our understanding of the environmental history of northern Canada - clarifying both its practice and promise, and providing critical perspectives on current public debates
An Environmental History of Canada examines human interactions with the land, and the origins of our current environmental crisis, from First Peoples to the Kyoto Protocol.
Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-first Century addresses significant episodes from across the country over the past four hundred years
Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History depicts the natural and cultural forces that shaped the park's landscape, and examines the roots of our complex relationship with nature.
US Environmental History: Inviting Doomsday shows how the current environmental crisis is firmly rooted in the past.
The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred.
Car Country: An Environmental History a history that is essential for understanding American transportation and land-use issues today.
Second Nature: An Environmental History of New England explores the mix of ecological process and human activity that shaped that history over the past 12,000 years
Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles a nuanced and rich portrait of Los Angeles that will serve planners, communities, and environmentalists as they look to the past for clues, if not blueprints, for enhancing the quality and viability of cities.
The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the post-Civil War South by framing the New South as a struggle over environmental stewardship. F
Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle a compelling case study that offers important insights for every city seeking to live in harmony with its natural landscape.
City of Lake and Prairie: Chicago's Environmental History describes a rich but often troubled landscape shaped by communities of color, workers, and activists as well as complex human relations with industry, waterways, animals, and disease.
Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World a rich history of the transformation of the tropics in modern times, pointing ultimately to the declining biodiversity that has resulted from the domestication of widely varied natural systems.
Land Between Waters: Environmental Histories of Modern Mexico examines how humans have used, abused, and attended to nature in Mexico over more than two hundred years.
The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil offers new interpretations of crucial moments of labor struggle, casts new light on the role of the state in agricultural change, and illuminates a legacy that influences Brazil's development even today.
Beyond Waters: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Amazonian Inland focuses on the previously relatively unknown prehistory of the Amazonian hinterland.
Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History explores how the production and commodification of guano has shaped the modern Pacific Basin and the world's relationship to the region.
Landscape Change and Resource Utilization in East Asia: Perspectives from Environmental History Covering the ancient period through to the 21st century, this book examines how landscapes have changed across East Asia over time
The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China documents the histories of three contrasting localities within China to show how ecological dynamics defined the lives of the inhabitants.
Across Forest, Steppe and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China's Borderlands offers a new and radical interpretation of how China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), relied on the interrelationship between ecology and ethnicity to incorporate the country's far-flung borderlands into the dynasty's expanding empire.
Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China examines the correlations between economic and environmental changes in the southern Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi from 1400 to 1850, but also provides substantial background from 2CE on.
Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China Under Mao, the traditional Chinese ideal of 'harmony between heaven and humans' was abrogated in favor of Mao's insistence that 'People Will Conquer Nature'. Mao and the Chinese Communist Party's 'war' to bend the physical world to human will often had disastrous consequences both for human beings and the natural environment.
The Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern China China's urban growth, industrial expansion, and agricultural intensification rested on compromised water resources, with effects that cast a long shadow over China's future course as a global power.
The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future examines China's growing environmental crisis and its implications for the country's future development.
China's Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change argues that as China has become increasingly market driven, decentralized, and politically heterogeneous, the control and management of water has transformed from an unquestioned economic imperative to a lightning rod of bureaucratic infighting, societal opposition, and open protest.
A Change in Worlds on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands: Politics, Economies, and Environments in Northern Sichuan explores the environmental, economic, and political history of the Sino-Tibetan Songpan region of northern Sichuan from the late imperial Qing Dynasty to the early 21st century.
Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta In the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta emerged as one of Vietnam's most important economic regions.
Japan: An Environmental History traces the country's development through successive historical phases, as early agricultural society based on non-intensive forms of cultivation gave way to more intensified forms.
Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan demonstrates how the Japanese archipelago has become industrialized over the last two hundred years -- and how people and the environment have suffered as a consequence.
Environment and Society in the Japanese Islands: From Prehistory to the Presentdiscusses the historical roots of today's environmental issues and the complex relationship between human society and the natural environment.
Seeds of Control: Japan's Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea discusses Japanese "forest reclamation" in Korea during the period of Japanese colonial rule (1895-1945)
Pre-industrial Korea and Japan in Environmental Perspective discusses the history of Japan and Korea and their environmental interactions from late Pleistocene down to about 1870
Environment, Politics, and Ideology in North Korea: Landscape as Political Project the book focuses on the specificity of individual developmental sectors and projects, such as those addressing forestry and hydrology, seeking to trace general trends into these more particular environmental fields.
An Environmental History of India: From Earliest Times to the Twenty-First Century discusses how India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have produced rising populations and have stretched natural resources, even as they have become increasingly engaged with climate change.
When the Earth Roars: Lessons from the History of Earthquakes in Japan a historical analysis of destructive earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan since the seventeenth century
Ecologies and Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Studies in Environmental History essays on current research in medieval and early modern environmental history by historians and social scientists
An Environmental History of the Middle Ages: The Crucible of Nature Exploring the entire medieval period from 500 to 1500, and ranging across the whole of Europe, from England and Spain to the Baltic and Eastern Europe, this study focuses on three key areas: the natural elements of air, water, and earth; the forest; and wild and domestic animals.< p>
Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries p>
Nature and the Iron Curtain: Environmental Policy and Social Movements in Communist and Capitalist Countries, 1945-1990 contrast communist and capitalist countries with respect to their environmental politics in the context of the Cold War.
The Nature of Soviet Power: An Arctic Environmental History explains how Soviet environmental history was part of the global pursuit for unending economic growth among modern states
An Environmental History of Russia This environmental history of the former Soviet Union explores the impact that state economic development programs had on the environment.
Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History essays demonstrate how environmental debates in Germany have generally centered on the best ways to harmonize human priorities and organic order, rather than on attempts to reify wilderness as a place to escape from industrial society
Resources of the City: Contributions to an Environmental History of Modern Europe addresses a variety of environmental issues that faced European and North American cities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.< p>
The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History - a multidisciplinary global history of Earth from its origins to the present
An Environmental History of the World - a concise history, from ancient to modern times, of the interactions between human societies and the natural environment, including the other forms of life that inhabit our planet.
The Face of the Earth: Environment and World History the authors show how the process of human interaction with the natural environment unfolded in the past, and offer perspective on the ecological crises in our world at the beginning of the 21st century.
The Great Acceleration: Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945 explains the scale, scope, pace, and character of environmental change around the world since the middle of the twentieth century as well as the reasons behind it.
A Field on Fire : The Future of Environmental History - A frank and engaging exploration of the burgeoning academic field of environmental history
Turning Points of Environmental History - In this volume, an international group of environmental historians documents the significant ways in which humans have impacted their surroundings throughout history.
Global Environmental History 10,000BC to 2000AD his title weaves together the impact of humanity on nature and vice-versa while recognizing the contributions to the story of many fields of learning.
The Holocene: An Environmental History - the remarkable story of how the natural world has been transformed since the end of the last Ice Age around 15,000 years ago.
Companion to American Environmental History - gathers together a comprehensive collection of over 30 essays that examine the evolving and diverse field of American environmental history
Columbia Guide to American Environmental History - an accessible overview of American environmental history; a mini-encyclopedia of ideas, people, legislation, and agencies;
Environmental History of Modern Migrations - offers a worldwide perspective on the history of migrations throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Imagination These reflective and engaging essays capture the fascination of environmental history
Resources Under Regimes: Technology, Environment, and the State this provocative, comparative study, asks to what extent the form of a government and its economy determines how environmental and social problems are addressed
Ecological imperialism : The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 - evaluates the global historical importance of European ecological expansion.
World Fire: The Culture of Fire on Earth - the story of how fire and humans have coevolved.
The Frigid Golden Age : Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560-1720 - a detailed analysis of how a society thrived amid the Little Ice Age, a period of climatic cooling that reached its chilliest point between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries
The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire - This book explores the serious and far-reaching impacts of Little Ice Age climate fluctuations in Ottoman land
The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late Medieval World - assesses the contributions of commercial recession, war, climate change, and eruption of the Black Death to a far-reaching reversal of fortunes from which no part of Eurasia was spared.
A Cultural History of Climate Change - this book examines the cultural history of climate change under three broad headings: history, writing and politics.
Making Climate Change History: Documents from Global Warming's Past - a collection of primary sources selected from the most important--and often the most overlooked--documents in the scientific and political history of anthropogenic climate change.
Climate Change in Prehistory: The End of the Reign of Chaos - explores the challenges that faced humankind in a glacial climate and the opportunities that arose when the climate improved dramatically after the Ice Age.
History and Climate Change : A Eurocentric Perspective - a balanced and comprehensive overview of the links between climate and man's advance from pre-history to modern times.
Contested Waters: An Environmental History of the Colorado River - this book tells the river's story-a story of conquest, control, division, and depletion.
Shifting Baselines in the Chesapeake Bay: An Environmental History - examines the problem of shifting baselines for one of the most productive aquatic resources in the world: the Chesapeake Bay.
The Greater Gulf: Essays on the Environmental History of the Gulf of St. Lawrence - an exploration of the environmental history--marine and terrestrial--of the Gulf of St Lawrence.
This Delta, this Land: An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Floodplain - a comprehensive environmental history of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta-the first one to place the Delta's economic and cultural history in an environmental context.
Along Ukraine's River: A Social and Environmental History of the Dnipro - discusses the river as it was formed in nature and as it has been used and modified by human agency from ancient times to the present.
Unruly Waters: A Social and Environmental History of the Brazos River - This environmental history of the Brazos traces the techniques that engineers and politicians have repeatedly used to try to manage its flow.
Environmental History of the Hudson River: Human Uses that Changed the Ecology, Ecology that Changed Human Uses - examines how the natural and physical attributes of the river have influenced human settlement and uses, and how human occupation has, in turn, affected the ecology and environmental health of the river.
Fish Versus Power: An Environmental History of the Fraser River - an environmental history of the Fraser River (British Columbia) and the attempts to dam it for power and to defend it for salmon.
The Exploited Seas: New Directions for Marine Environmental History - explores the evolution of life-forms and eco-systems in the ocean from a historical perspective, in order to establish and develop the sub-discipline of marine environmental history.
Cape Cod: An Environmental History of a Fragile Ecosystem - offers an environmental, social, and economic history of Cape Cod told through the experiences of residents as well as visitors.
Coastal Metropolis: Environmental Histories of Modern New York City - offers new insight into how the modern city transformed its air, land, and water as it grew
Whales & Nations: Environmental Diplomacy on the High Seas - tells the story of the international negotiation, scientific research, and industrial development behind the efforts to regulate the whaling industry--and their ultimate failure.
Empire of Water: An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply - the task of providing water to New Yorkers transformed the natural and built environment of the city, its suburbs, and distant rural watersheds.
The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples, from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina - offers a tour across five centuries as he illuminates the interaction between people and the landscape, from early hunter-gatherer bands to present-day industrial and post-industrial society.
River Republic: The Fall and Rise of America's Rivers- chronicles the surging grassroots movement to bring America's rivers back to life and ensure they remain pristine for future generations.
Fish, Fishing, and Community in North Korea and Neighbours: Vibrant Matters - explores the histories and geographies of fishing in North Korea and the surrounding nations.
Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics - topics include human nutrition, animal rights, and the environmental impacts of agricultural production.
Crow's Range: An Environmental History of the Sierra Nevada - examines the history of the Sierra Nevada's geologic beginnings and various ecological communities.
The Greater Plains: Rethinking a Region's Environmental Histories - examines the region through the interrelated themes of water, grasses, animals, and energy
Exceptional Mountains: A Cultural History of the Pacific Northwest Volcanoes - discusses how mountaineering is but one conspicuous example of the outdoor recreation industry's unrestricted and problematic growth.
Vestal Fire: An Environmental History, Told Through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World - explores the terrain of Europe and the uses and abuses of its lands as well as, through migration and conquest, many parts of the rest of the world.
Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West - portrays how human actions inadvertently helped to create a strange and sometimes baffling ecology.
Developmental Dilemmas: Land Reform and Institutional Change in China - singles out land as an object of study and places it in the context of one of the world's largest and most populous countries undergoing institutional reform: the People's Republic of China.
Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China - traces the development of the food systems that coincided with China's emergence as an empire
Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis - With the onset of industrialization and colonization the process of deforestation has accelerated, as agriculture, metal smelting, trade, war, territorial expansion, and even cultural aversion to forests have all taken their toll.
Fire on Earth: An Introduction - puts fire in its rightful place as an integral part of the study of geology, biology, human history, physics, and global chemistry.
Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada - discusses how since Confederation, the country has devised various institutions to connect fire and society.
Canada's Forests: A History - provides an overall description of Canada's forests, their historical uses, and their current condition.
Fire Management in the American West: Forest Politics and the Rise of Megafires - shows how the US forest industry, under the constraint of profitability, pushed the USFS away from private industry regulation and toward fire exclusion, eventually changing national forest policy into little more than fire policy.
Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America - recounts how, after the Great Fires of 1910, a policy of fire suppression spread from America's founding corps of foresters into a national policy that manifested itself as a costly all-out war on fire.
The Bitterroot and Mr. Brandborg: Clearcutting and the Struggle for Sustainable Forestry in the Northern Rockies - narration of how one national forest supervisor understood the intricate connection between the grasslands and forests under his care and the communities that were so dependent on these invaluable resources.
Forests for the People: The Story of America's Eastern National Forests - tells one of the most extraordinary stories of environmental protection in our nation's history: how a diverse coalition of citizens, organizations, and business and political leaders worked to create a system of national forests in the Eastern United States.
Forests Forever: Their Ecology, Restoration, and Protection - offers a clear and readable survey of forest history and management.
From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: an Environmental History since 1492 - talks about the two processes that have had the most dramatic impact on the island's landscape: deforestation and sugar cultivation.
With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest - chronicles the chaotic path to what could be one of the greatest natural disasters of modern times: the disappearance of the Atlantic Forest.
Instituting Nature: Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests - describes Mexico's efforts over the past hundred years to manage its forests through forestry science and biodiversity conservation.
Forests and Peasant Politics in Modern France - Confronting an ecological crisis in 1860, French officials initiated an unprecedented policy of alpine reforestation.
Roots of Empire: Forests and State Power in Early Modern Spain, c. 1500-1750 - examines Spain's forest management policies from the sixteenth century through the middle of the eighteenth century, connecting the global imperial level with local lived experiences in forest communities impacted by this manifestation of expanded state power.
Trees, Forested Landscapes, and Grazing Animals: A European Perspective on Woodlands and Grazed Treescapes - breaks new ground in broadening the scope of wood-pasture and woodland research to address sites and ecologies that have previously been overlooked but which hold potential keys to understanding landscape dynamics.
Song of the Forest: Russian Forestry and Stalinist Environmentalism, 1905-1953 - profiles the leading Soviet-era conservationists, agencies, and administrators, and their efforts to formulate forest policy despite powerful ideological differences.
Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China - charts the rise of timber plantations between about 1000 and 1700, when natural forests were replaced with anthropogenic ones.
A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York's North Country - traces the planning, construction, and operation of penitentiaries in five Adirondack Park communities from the 1840s through the early 2000s to demonstrate that the histories of mass incarceration and environmental consciousness are interconnected.
Tainted Earth: Smelters, Public Health, and the Environment - traces the rise of public health concerns about nonferrous smelting in the western United States, focusing on three major facilities: Tacoma, Washington; El Paso, Texas; and Bunker Hill, Idaho.
Smarter Growth: Activism and Environmental Policy in Metropolitan Washington - offers a fresh understanding of environmental politics in metropolitan America
Environment in the Balance: The Green Movement and the Supreme Court - interprets a wide range of U.S. Supreme Court decisions over four decades and explores the current ferment among activists, to gauge the practical and cultural impact of environmentalism and its future prospects.
The Promise of Wilderness: American Environmental Politics since 1964 - demonstrates the continued vitality and centrality of wilderness within American environmentalism.
Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism - argues that military planning for World War III essentially created "catastrophic environmentalism": the idea that human activity might cause global natural disasters.
Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States - offers a history of environmental racism in the United States focusing on constructions of race and hygiene.
The World Hunt : An Environmental History of the Commodification of Animals - focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and the early modern world economy.
The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 - explains the decline of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than 1000 a century later.
Creatures of Empire : How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America - explains how domesticated animals were crucial agents in the colonization of America.
Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai'i - examines the trans-Pacific transformations these animals wrought on local landscapes and native economies.
An Environmental History of Wildlife in England, 1650-1950 - describes both rural and urban environments from 1650 to the mid-twentieth century.
The Animal in Ottoman Egypt - shows how the Ottoman Egyptian transition from an early modern society to a modern state both mirrored and shaped larger changes in the human-animal relationship.
The Lost Wolves of Japan - describes the processes of modernity that saw the Japanese wolf gradually transformed from a god to a pest, and hunted to extinction
Scorched Earth : Environmental Warfare As a Crime Against Humanity and Nature - discusses how by 1914, total war had been central to the practice of war across the globe for at least four centuries.
An Environmental History of the Civil War - This sweeping history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a moment of profound transformation in Americans' relationship to the natural world.
The Blue, the Gray, and the Green: Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War - explores how nature-disease, climate, flora and fauna, and other factors-affected the war and also how the war shaped Americans' perceptions, understanding, and use of nature.
Environmental Histories of the First World War - explores the global interactions of states, armies, civilians, and the environment during the war.
Nature at War: American Environments and World War II - an examination of American involvement in World War II through an environmental lens.
Environmental Histories of the Cold War - explores the links between the Cold War and the global environment, ranging from the environmental impacts of nuclear weapons to the political repercussions of environmentalism.
Environmental History of the UK Defence Estate, 1945 to the Present - explores the environmental history of the British military through a comparative framework of five key sites in England and Wales.
War and the Environment: Military Destruction in the Modern Age - discusses the intertwined relationship of military conflict and the environment
Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times - examines a variety of past disasters, from the Black Death of the Middle Ages to the mega-hurricanes of the twenty-first century, revealing the dynamic interaction of diverse human and nonhuman factors in their causation, unfolding, and aftermath.
Seismic City: An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake - argues that the disaster of 1906 must be understood as part of the ordinary relationship between the city and its natural surroundings.
Natural Disasters in a Global Environment - a transnational, global and environmental history of natural and man-made disasters.
Three Mile Island: The Meltdown Crisis and Nuclear Power in American Popular Culture - explains the far-reaching consequences of the partial meltdown of Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island power plant on March 28, 1979.
Coping with Calamity: Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736-1949 - considers the Jianghan Plain's volatile environment, the constant challenges it presented to peasants, and their often ingenious and sophisticated responses during the Qing and Republican periods.