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The Significance of Territory

Over her thirty-year study of the concept of territory, Jean Gottmann has seen its significance evolve in a wide variety of ways throughout the world. Factors that influence...

America's Wetland

An Environmental and Cultural History of Tidewater Virginia and North Carolina
Sawyer, Roy T.

The geologically ancient Tidewater region of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina rests precariously atop millions of years of erosion from the nearby...

Recomposing Ecopoetics

North American Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene
Keller, Lynn

In the first book devoted exclusively to the ecopoetics of the twenty-first century, Lynn Keller examines poetry of what she terms the "self-conscious Anthropocene," a period...

Landscape and Images

Stilgoe, John R.

John Stilgoe is just looking around. This is more difficult than it sounds, particularly in our mediated age, when advances in both theory and technology too often seek to...

The Illusory Boundary

Environment and Technology in History
Reuss, Martin, Cutcliffe, Stephen H.

The view of nature and technology inhabiting totally different, even opposite, spheres persists across time and cultures. Most people would consider an English countryside or a...

New Woman Ecologies

From Arts and Crafts to the Great War and Beyond
Carroll, Alicia

A transatlantic phenomenon of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the "New Woman" broke away from many of the constraints of the Victorian era to enjoy a greater...

Out of the Shadow

Ecopsychology, Story, and Encounters with the Land
West, Rinda

In western culture, the separation of humans from nature has contributed to a schism between the conscious reason and the unconscious dreaming psyche, or internal human "nature...

The American Wilderness

Reflections on Nature Protection in the United States
Vale, Thomas R.

Interpretations of wild nature and wilderness are particularly diverse in the American mind, given our history, our collective economic success, and our diverse social and...

Design with Culture

Claiming America's Landscape Heritage
Birnbaum, Charles A., Hughes, Mary V.

Often viewed as nostalgic and inauthentic, the work of early preservationists has frequently been underrated by modern practitioners. Rather than considering early preservation...

World's Fair Gardens

Shaping American Landscapes
Maloney, Cathy Jean

As showcases for dramatic changes in garden style and new technology, world’s fairs offered leading landscape designers and nurserymen the chance to tempt visitors to try new...

Postcolonial Green

Environmental Politics and World Narratives
Roos, Bonnie, Hunt, Alex

Postcolonial Green brings together scholarship bridging ecocriticism and postcolonialism. Since its inception, ecocriticism has been accused of being inattentive to the...

Of Land, Bones, and Money

Toward a South African Ecopoetics
McGiffin, Emily

The South African literature of iimbongi, the oral poets of the amaXhosa people, has long shaped understandings of landscape and history and offered a forum for grappling with...

Skinny Dipping

And Other Immersions in Water, Myth, and Being Human
Lembke, Janet

The author of the acclaimed Dangerous Birds followed that success with a new collection of essays on the natural world, these connected by the theme of water: exploring...

Community-Based Collaboration

Bridging Socio-Ecological Research and Practice
Dukes, E. Franklin, Firehock, Karen E., Birkhoff, Juliana E.

The debate over the value of community-based environmental collaboration is one that dominates current discussions of the management of public lands and other resources. In ...

Literature of Place
Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day, 1970
Simo, Melanie
In a world that is increasingly reliant on science, technology, and virtual relationships, our reciprocal and intimate connection to place has often been overlooked. This...

Framing the World
Explorations in Ecocriticism and Film
Willoquet-Maricondi, Paula
The 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...

Anthropocene Fictions
The Novel in a Time of Climate Change
Trexler, Adam
Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth’s atmosphere, committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, melting polar ice caps, and...

Melodramatic Landscapes
Urban Parks in the Nineteenth Century
Schenker, Heath
During the nineteenth century, large, naturalistic urban parks began to appear in cities around the world. These parks, as Melodramatic Landscapes engagingly...

Quantitative Methods in the Humanities
An Introduction
Lemercier, Claire, Zalc, Claire
This 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...

National Park Roads
A Legacy in the American Landscape
Davis, Timothy
From Acadia and Great Smoky Mountains to Zion and Mount Rainier, millions of visitors tour America’s national parks. While park roads determine what most visitors see and how...

Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
A Landscape Critic in the Gilded Age
Major, Judith K.
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851–1934) was one of the premier figures in landscape writing and design at the turn of the twentieth century, a moment when the amateur...

Public Nature
Scenery, History, and Park Design
Carr, Ethan, Eyring, Shaun, Wilson, Richard Guy
This diverse new collection of essays, written by scholars, practitioners, and public-land managers, considers the history of public park design, as well as the parks...

The Most Defiant Devil
William Temple Hornaday and His Controversial Crusade to Save American Wildlife
Dehler, Gregory J.
The late nineteenth and early twentieth century were a brutal time for American wildlife, with many species pushed to the brink of extinction. (Some are endangered to this day...

Italy and the Environmental Humanities
Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies
Iovino, Serenella, Cesaretti, Enrico, Past, Elena
Bringing 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...

In Pursuit of Wild Edibles
A Forager's Tour
Greene, Jeffrey
Today 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...