The River of the Mother of God: and Other Essays
10 best books like The River of the Mother of God: and Other Essays (Aldo Leopold): Washington: A Life, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, 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, Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America, Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, The Ecological Indian: Myth and History, Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History)
| Author | Ron Chernow |
| ISBN | 1594202664 |
The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life, he carries the reader through Washington's troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian Wars, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic...
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
| Author | Edmund Morris |
| ISBN | 0375756787 |
'Colonel Roosevelt,' which takes its title from Roosevelt's favourite way of being addressed during his emeritus years, follows the African Journey with Mr. Morris's characteristic care. He uses primary sources, sometimes even rough drafts of letters and documents, and goes well beyond Roosevelt's...
| 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 | Virginia DeJohn Anderson |
| ISBN | 0195304462 |
When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn Anderson reveals in this brilliantly original account of colonists in New England and the Chesapeake region, livestock played...
| Author | William Cronon |
| ISBN | 0393315118 |
In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature in our malls through...
| Author | Shepard Krech III |
| ISBN | 0393321002 |
The idea of the Native American living in perfect harmony with nature is one of the most cherished contemporary myths. But how truthful is this larger-than-life image? According to anthropologist Shepard Krech, the first humans in North America demonstrated all of the intelligence, self-interest,...
| 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 | Alfred W. Crosby |
| ISBN | 0521546184 |
People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world--North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain because in many cases they were achieved by using firearms against spears. Alfred Crosby,...
| Author | Rebecca Solnit |
| ISBN | 0520220668 |
In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants that has yet to come to a real conclusion. A century later—1951—and about a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U. S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the...
Watchmen #1: At Midnight, All The Agents....
Someone recommended reading THE WATCHMEN to me because I was told it was one of the best out there. After reading the first issue, I now know why.
The illustrations were a bit outdated, but I didn't really mind. I'm more curious as to what happened to the Comedian and why this person thinks someone...
