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Foreign Trends in American Gardens
A History of Exchange, Adaptation, and Reception
Fabiani Giannetto, Raffaella Foreign Trends in American Gardens addresses the influence of foreign, designed landscapes on the development of their American counterparts. Including essays from an...
New Orleans
The Making of an Urban Landscape
Lewis, Peirce F.In his now classic work of historical geography, published in 1976, Lewis traces the rise and expansion of New Orleans through four major historic periods. This second edition...
In Pursuit of Wild Edibles
A Forager's Tour
Greene, JeffreyToday we care about the source of our food as much as the preparation, so it is no surprise that foodies have discovered wild edibles. From the most upscale restaurants in New...
Greening the City
Urban Landscapes in the Twentieth Century
Brantz, Dorothee, Dümpelmann, SonjaThe modern city is not only pavement and concrete. Parks, gardens, trees, and other plants are an integral part of the urban environment. Often the focal points of social...
Thomas Jefferson's Flower Garden at Monticello, 3rd ed
Hatch, Peter J., Betts, Edwin Morris, Perkins, Hazelhurst BoltonThe restoration of the flower gardens at Monticello in 1941, sponsored by the Garden Club of Virginia, was the result of Edwin Betts's scholarly research and Hazlehurst Perkins...
Narrating the Mesh
Form and Story in the Anthropocene
Caracciolo, MarcoA hierarchical model of human societies’ relations with the natural world is at the root of today’s climate crisis; Narrating the Mesh contends that narrative form is...
Gilbert White
A Biography of the Author of The Natural History of Selborne
Mabey, RichardWith more than two hundred editions, Gilbert White’s The Natural History of Selborne is one of the most published books in the English language. An environmental study...
Dancing with Disaster
Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times
Rigby, KateThe calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more...
Melodramatic Landscapes
Urban Parks in the Nineteenth Century
Schenker, HeathDuring the nineteenth century, large, naturalistic urban parks began to appear in cities around the world. These parks, as Melodramatic Landscapes engagingly...
Evergreen Ash
Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth and Literature
Abram, ChristopherNorse mythology is obsessed with the idea of an onrushing and unstoppable apocalypse: Ragnarok, when the whole of creation will perish in fire, smoke, and darkness and the...
Traces of J. B. Jackson
The Man Who Taught Us to See Everyday America
Horowitz, Helen L.J. B. Jackson transformed forever how Americans understand their landscape, a concept he defined as land shaped by human presence. In the first major biography of the greatest...
Framing the World
Explorations in Ecocriticism and Film
Willoquet-Maricondi, PaulaThe essays in this collection make a contribution to the greening of film studies and expand the scope of ecocriticism as a discipline traditionally rooted in literary studies...
Italy and the Environmental Humanities
Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies
Iovino, Serenella, Cesaretti, Enrico, Past, ElenaBringing together new writing by some of the field’s most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy--as a territory of both...
Unsettling Nature
Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination
Eggan, TaylorThe German poet and mystic Novalis once identified philosophy as a form of homesickness. More than two centuries later, as modernity’s displacements continue to intensify, we...
Genealogies of Environmentalism
The Lost Works of Clarence Glacken
Glacken, Clarence, Rajan, S. RaviClarence Glacken wrote one of the most important books on environmental issues published in the twentieth century. His magnum opus, Traces on the Rhodian Shore, first...
Earth Works
Readings for Backyard Gardeners
Hugo, Nancy RossIn Earth Works, award-winning columnist Nancy R. Hugo presents a month-by-month, season-by-season exploration of the pleasures and pains of gardening in the mid-Atlantic....
Cyclical City
Five Stories of Urban Transformation
Desimini, JillAs cities evolve and resources shift with time, spaces within those cities are often left fallow and abandoned. Cyclical City tells the stories behind these sites, from...
The Wild Within
Histories of a Landmark British Zoo
Flack, AndrewEstablished in 1836, the Bristol Zoo is the world’s oldest surviving zoo outside of a capital city and has frequently been at the vanguard of zoo innovation. In The Wild...
A Useful Dog
McCaig, DonaldAlternately comical, melancholic, pragmatic, and poetic, Donald McCaig’s collection AUseful Dog offers a delightful exploration of the simple yet rich relationship between dogs...
Quantitative Methods in the Humanities
An Introduction
Lemercier, Claire, Zalc, ClaireThis timely and lucid guide is intended for students and scholars working on all historical periods and topics in the humanities and social sciences--especially for those who...
Drawn to Landscape
The Pioneering Work of J. B. Jackson
Mendelsohn, Janet, Wilson, ChristopherFrom 1951 to 1969, John Brinckerhoff (J. B.) Jackson founded, edited, and published Landscape, a magazine that changed the way scholars, writers, teachers, designers, planners...
Cartooning the Landscape
Sullivan, ChipOne of the singular talents in landscape design, Chip Sullivan has shared his expertise through a seemingly unusual medium that, at second glance, makes perfect sense--the...
Building Natures
Modern American Poetry, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning
Daniel, JuliaIn Building Natures, Julia Daniel establishes the influence of landscape architecture, city planning, and parks management on American poetry to show how modernists...
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
Making the Modern Landscape
Herrington, SusanCornelia Hahn Oberlander is one of the most important landscape architects of the twentieth century, yet despite her lasting influence, few outside the field know her name. Her...