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Women Philosophers on Economics, Technology, Environment, and Gender History

In times of current crisis, the voices of women are needed more than ever. The accumulation of war and environmental catastrophes teaches us that exploitation of people and nature through violent appropri…

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Paul Kreitman
Japan's Ocean Borderlands

"Desert islands are the focus of intense geopolitical tensions in East Asia today, but they are also sites of nature conservation. In this global environmental history, Paul Kreitman explores how the…

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Irene Cazzaro
Digital 3D reconstruction as a research environment in art and architecture history

Many unresolved challenges surround source-based 3D reconstruction in archaeology, art, and architectural history. In this context, here we focus on evaluating source-based 3D reconstructions, emphasising…

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Margaret E Derry
Ideology of Purity

Ideology of Purity challenges the assumption that animal breeding has served as a reliable model for eugenics through a direct comparison of the views of eugenicists with those of animal breeders.Eugenici…

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Sara B Pritchard,
Transforming Night

Who owns the night--and what is lost as we flood it with light, worldwide? Darkness has become legible--and contested. Blending archival narrative with on-the-ground ethnography, Sara B. Pritchard traces …

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The Book of the Dead from Huexotzinco (1619-1640)

The Book of the Dead from Huexotzinco (El libro de los difuntos ) is a Nahuatl-language death registry maintained by the Indigenous people of Huexotzinco, Mexico, between 1619 and 1640. On its fragile vel…

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Stephen J Pyne
Undying Fire

Europe's unquenchable flames, from hearth to Pyrocene, reveal a civilization's combustible core This work offers a sweeping history of Europe told through flame--and a history of fire refracted through Eu…

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Sunil Amrith
The Burning Earth

In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing on a…

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Thomas W Swetnam
The Jemez Mountains

The Jemez Mountains are a quintessential New Mexico landscape. For centuries, Pueblo, Spanish, and Anglo cultures have mixed and melded here. Many ancient villages are scattered across the mesas and in th…

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Charles W Eagles
A Victory for Democracy

In a landmark First Amendment case that Martin Luther King Jr. called "a victory for democracy," NAACP v. Alabama(1958) established the right to form groups to share and promote ideas without go…

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Jay Cephas
Fordism and the City

In the early twentieth century, the Ford Motor Company built an industrial empire with massive factory complexes and associated infrastructures. Henry Ford's 1915 plan to decentralize industrial manufactu…

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Katrina Schwartz
Waters of Destiny

Waters of Destiny tells the story of how sugarcane came to be produced at industrial scale in the Florida Everglades, thanks to a federal flood-control system that led to the devastation of downstream eco…

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Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
More and More and More

The radical, paradigm-shifting international bestseller that destroys our delusions about energy consumption and will change the way we talk about climate change.We have long been taught that humanity's r…

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Charles Wedekind
Classic Cars and Europe

Historic vehicles represent not only technical cultural heritage, but also living European mobility history. However, their cross-border use is becoming increasingly difficult due to legal, tax and enviro…

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Dennis Drabelle
The Power of Scenery

Featured in the Wall Street Journal' s 2021 Holiday Gift Books Guide 2021 Marfield Prize FinalistWallace Stegner called national parks "the best idea we ever had." But where did the idea origina…

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Jonathan Watts
The Many Lives of James Lovelock

"A revealing window into an extraordinary mind."---Publishers Weekly"Utterly fascinating---a beautifully braided account of the life of a maverick, prophetic genius."---Robert MacFarla…

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Nature and Place in Texas

Texas history is often recounted through tales of revolution, oil booms, and cattle drives. But what if we considered a different lens---one shaped by wind and wildfire, rivers and drought, grasslands and…

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Energy's History

"Energy history is an approach to understanding the past that takes changes in the human exploitation of Earth's energies as its object of inquiry. This interdisciplinary field documents and analyzes…

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Energy's History

"Energy history is an approach to understanding the past that takes changes in the human exploitation of Earth's energies as its object of inquiry. This interdisciplinary field documents and analyzes…

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J R McNeill
Something New Under the Sun

Humans have long transformed the planet, scratching its surface for stones and ores, planting and harvesting crops, sparking fires for light and heat. But since the dawn of industrialisation and especiall…

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