Environmental History Books

New and Published Books

1. Trees, Forested Landscapes and Grazing Animals

   A European Perspective on Woodlands and Grazed Treescapes

   Edited by Ian D. Rotherham

   In this comprehensive book, the critical components of the European landscape – forest, parkland, and other grazed landscapes with trees are addressed. The book considers the history of grazed treed landscapes, of large grazing herbivores in Europe, and the implications of the past in shaping...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
2. Global Environmental History

   An Introductory Reader

   Edited by John R. McNeill, Alan Roe

   Series: Rewriting Histories

   Global Environmental History introduces this rapidly developing field through a broad and thought-provoking range of expert contributions. Environmental history is a subject especially suited to global and transnational approaches and, over the course of the present generation, an increasing...

   Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge
3. World History

   Journeys from Past to Present - VOLUME 2: From 1500 CE to the Present, 2nd Edition

   By Candice Goucher, Linda Walton

   World History: Journeys from Past to Present uses common themes to present an integrated and comprehensive survey of human history from its origins to the present day. By weaving together thematic and regional perspectives in coherent chronological narratives, Goucher and Walton transform the...

   Published October 16th 2012 by Routledge
4. World History

   Journeys from Past to Present - VOLUME 1: From Human Origins to 1500 CE, 2nd Edition

   By Candice Goucher, Linda Walton

   World History: Journeys from Past to Present uses common themes to present an integrated and comprehensive survey of human history from its origins to the present day. By weaving together thematic and regional perspectives in coherent chronological narratives, Goucher and Walton transform the...

   Published October 16th 2012 by Routledge
5. World History

   Journeys from Past to Present, 2nd Edition

   By Candice Goucher, Linda Walton

   World History: Journeys from Past to Present uses common themes to present an integrated and comprehensive survey of human history from its origins to the present day. By weaving together thematic and regional perspectives in coherent chronological narratives, Goucher and Walton transform the...

   Published October 9th 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. Migration in World History

   2nd Edition

   By Patrick Manning

   Series: Themes in World History

   This fully revised and updated second edition of Migration in World History traces the connections among regions brought about by the movement of people, diseases, crops, technology and ideas. Drawing on examples from a wide range of geographical regions and thematic areas, noted world historian...

   Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge
8. Europe's Green Revolution and Others Since

   The Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant Breeding

   By Jonathan Harwood

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

   How best to foster agricultural development in the Third World has long been a subject of debate and from a European perspective the persistent failure to design peasant-friendly technology is puzzling. From the late 19th century, for example, various western European countries also underwent ‘...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
9. Environmentalism since 1945

   By Gary Haq, Alistair Paul

   Series: The Making of the Contemporary World

   Today environmental issues are part of daily life, a feature of the modern world almost everyone now recognises. Contemporary environmentalism has promoted a way of speaking and thinking about the environment that was not possible or imaginable decades ago. Environmentalism Since 1945 provides a...

   Published September 21st 2011 by Routledge
10. The Beast Within

    Animals in the Middle Ages, 2nd Edition

    By Joyce Salisbury

    Praise for the first edition: "...a brave and fascinating exploration of an area that has so far been rather neglected by both historical and literary critics. The Beast Within provides extremely valuable information on the legal and cultural background of the human-animal relationship..." --...

    Published October 12th 2010 by Routledge