Environmental History Books

New and Published Books

1. Thinking through Landscape

   By Augustin Berque

   Our attitude to nature has changed over time. This book explores the historical, literary and philosophical origins of the changes in our attitude to nature that allowed environmental catastrophes to happen. It presents a philosophical reflection on human societies’ attitude to the environment,...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Nature's Spectacle

   The World's First National Parks and Protected Places

   By John Sheail

   National parks have always been an emotive and iconic symbol, ever since the first parks of the modern era were created in the mid-nineteenth century. This book, based on original research, delves deeply into their character and significance, and the larger context in which they developed. ...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Origins of Energy and Environmental Policy in Europe

   The Beginnings of a European Environmental Conscience

   By Thomas Hoerber

   Series: Routledge Research in Environmental Politics

   This book examines the development of a European environmental conscience through successive steps of European integration in energy policy. In the 1960s-70s, the world was slowly beginning to realise that environment degradation was not sustainable. With phenomena such as acid rain, it became...

   Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge
4. Climate: Present, Past and Future

   Volume 1: Fundamentals and Climate Now

   By Hubert Lamb

   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 November 21st 2012 by Routledge
5. Climate: Present, Past and Future

   Volume 2: Climatic History and the Future

   By Hubert Lamb

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

   Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
6. An Environmental History of the Middle Ages

   The Crucible of Nature

   By John Aberth

   The Middle Ages was a critical and formative time for Western approaches to our natural surroundings. An Environmental History of the Middle Ages is a unique and unprecedented cultural survey of attitudes towards the environment during this period. Humankind’s relationship with the environment...

   Published September 3rd 2012 by Routledge
7. 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 May 29th 2012 by Routledge
8. 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 14th 2011 by Routledge
9. 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
10. 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