Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History)
10 best books like Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History) (Alfred W. Crosby): Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples, Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War, On Human Nature, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas, Martin's Hundred, Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914, Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
| Author | Jared Diamond |
| ISBN | 0739467352 |
"Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope ... one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years."
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of...
| Author | Tim Flannery |
| ISBN | 0802138888 |
In The Eternal Frontier, world-renowned scientist and historian Tim Flannery tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that ended the age of dinosaurs 65 million years ago, to the present day. Flannery...
| Author | Thomas G. Andrews |
| ISBN | 0674031016 |
On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado’s industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children...
| Author | Edward O. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0674016386 |
No one who cares about the human future can afford to ignore E.O. Wilson's book. On Human Nature begins a new phase in the most important intellectual controversy of this generation: Is human behavior controlled by the species' biological heritage? Does this heritage limit human destiny?
With...
| Author | Brian M. Fagan |
| ISBN | 0465022723 |
The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how this altered climate affected historical events, and what it means for today's global warming. Building on research that has only recently confirmed that the world endured...
| Author | William Cronon |
| ISBN | 0809016346 |
The book that launched environmental history now updated.
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of...
| Author | Donald Worster |
| ISBN | 0521468345 |
In a narrow sense, Nature's Economy could be considered a counterpart to Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. While Kuhn looks at evolution of scientific knowledge from the inside, looking for moments when accumulated evidence pushes scientists to a new paradigm, Worster looks at the...
| Author | Ivor Noël Hume |
| ISBN | 0813913233 |
Hume's book is non-fiction and is about the uncovering of an early 1600's settlement near Jamestown. The book is well written and can be enjoyed by both anthro/archeology buffs as well as mystery fans. The book details the perserverance and patience a researcher needs to discover the smallest particles...
| Author | John Robert McNeill |
| ISBN | 0521452864 |
This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. Ecological changes made these landscapes especially suitable...
| Author | William L. Rathje |
| ISBN | 0816521433 |
It is from the discards of former civilizations that archaeologists have reconstructed most of what we know about the past, and it is through their examination of today’s garbage that William Rathje and Cullen Murphy inform us of our present. Rubbish! is their witty and erudite investigation into...
| Author | Barry W. Cunliffe |
| ISBN | 0300119232 |
In this magnificent book, distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe reframes our entire conception of early European history, from prehistory through the ancient world to the medieval Viking period. Cunliffe views Europe not in terms of states and shifting political land boundaries but as a...
| Author | Richard White |
| ISBN | 0521424607 |
An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations – stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans...
| Author | Noam Chomsky |
| ISBN | 1852421177 |
At the centre of pratically every major debate over America?s role in the world, one finds Noam Chomsky?s ideas - sometimes attacked, sometimes studiously ignored, but always a powerful presence. Drawing from his published and unpublished work, The Chomsky Reader reveals the awesome range of this...
