Environmental History Books

New and Published Books

1. Climate: Present, Past and Future (Routledge Revivals)

   Volume 1: Fundamentals and Climate Now

   By H. H. Lamb

   Series: Routledge Revivals: A History of Climate Changes

   First published in 1972, this first volume of Professor Lamb’s study of our changing climate deals with the fundamentals of climate and climatology, as well as providing global data on the contemporary climates of the twentieth century....

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge
2. Climate: Present, Past and Future (Routledge Revivals)

   Volume 2: Climatic History and the Future

   By H. H. Lamb

   Series: Routledge Revivals: A History of Climate Changes

   First published in 1977, the second volume of Climate: Present, Past and Future covers parts 3 and 4 of Professor Hubert Lamb’s seminal and pioneering study of climatology. Part 3 provides a survey of evidence of types of climates over the last million years, and of methods of dating...

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge
3. A History of Climate Changes (4 Volumes)

   Selected Works of H. H. Lamb

   By H. H. Lamb

   Series: Routledge Revivals: A History of Climate Changes

   First published between 1966 and 1988, the four volumes in this collection demonstrate the immense breadth and depth of work on climate change by the pioneering English climatologist Hubert Lamb. Detailing everything from the fundamentals of climate and climatology, as well as a history of climatic...

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge
4. Picturing the Wolf in Children's Literature

   By Debra Mitts-Smith

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   From the villainous beast of “Little Red Riding Hood” and “The Three Little Pigs,” to the nurturing wolves of Romulus and Remus and Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, the wolf has long been a part of the landscape of children’s literature. Meanwhile, since the 1960s and the popularization of...

   Published June 23rd 2010 by Routledge
5. Restoration and History

   The Search for a Usable Environmental Past

   Edited by Marcus Hall

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History

   Once a forest has been destroyed, should one plant a new forest to emulate the old, or else plant designer forests to satisfy our immediate needs? Should we aim to re-create forests, or simply create them? How does the past shed light on our environmental efforts, and how does the present influence...

   Published December 22nd 2009 by Routledge
6. An Environmental History of the World

   Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life

   By J. Donald Hughes

   This second edition of An Environmental History of the World continues to present 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. Throughout their evolutionary...

   Published August 2nd 2009 by Routledge
7. The Globalization of Environmental Crisis

   Edited by Jan Oosthoek, Barry Gills

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   Previously published as a special issue of Globalizations, this collection of essays addresses what is arguably the most pressing and urgent issue of our day - the continuing development of global environmental crises and the need for new and urgent responses to them by the world community. The...

   Published December 23rd 2007 by Routledge