Changes in the Land
Title | Changes in the Land PDF eBook |
Author | William Cronon |
Publisher | Hill and Wang |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2011-04-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 142992828X |
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize Changes in the Land offers an original and persuasive interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance. With the tools of both historian and ecologist, Cronon constructs an interdisciplinary analysis of how the land and the people influenced one another, and how that complex web of relationships shaped New England's communities.
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
Title | Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West PDF eBook |
Author | William Cronon |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 592 |
Release | 2009-11-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0393072452 |
A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel." —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe
Land Use, Environment, and Social Change
Title | Land Use, Environment, and Social Change PDF eBook |
Author | Richard White |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2000-12-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0295980540 |
Whidbey and Camano, two of the largest of the numerous beautiful islands dotting Puget Sound, together form the major part of Island Country. Taking this county as a case study and following its history from Indian times to the present, Richard White explores the complex relationship between human induced environmental change and social change. This new edition of his classic study includes a new preface by the author and a foreword by William Cronon.
Violence over the Land
Title | Violence over the Land PDF eBook |
Author | Ned BLACKHAWK |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 385 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674020995 |
In this ambitious book that ranges across the Great Basin, Blackhawk places Native peoples at the center of a dynamic story as he chronicles two centuries of Indian and imperial history that shaped the American West. This book is a passionate reminder of the high costs that the making of American history occasioned for many indigenous peoples.
Changes in Land Use and Land Cover
Title | Changes in Land Use and Land Cover PDF eBook |
Author | William B. Meyer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 570 |
Release | 1994-09-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521470858 |
This book analyses the impact of human activities on the Earth's surface and environment.
Land-Use and Land-Cover Change
Title | Land-Use and Land-Cover Change PDF eBook |
Author | Eric F. Lambin |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 222 |
Release | 2008-01-08 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 3540322027 |
This book presents recent estimates on the rate of change of major land classes. Aggregated globally, multiple impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect central aspects of Earth System functioning. The book offers innovative developments and applications in the fields of modeling and scenario construction. Conclusions are also drawn about the most pressing implications for the design of appropriate intervention policies.
Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land
Title | Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Burkhart |
Publisher | MSU Press |
Total Pages | 386 |
Release | 2019-09-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1628953721 |
Land is key to the operations of coloniality, but the power of the land is also the key anticolonial force that grounds Indigenous liberation. This work is an attempt to articulate the nature of land as a material, conceptual, and ontological foundation for Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and valuing. As a foundation of valuing, land forms the framework for a conceptualization of Indigenous environmental ethics as an anticolonial force for sovereign Indigenous futures. This text is an important contribution in the efforts to Indigenize Western philosophy, particularly in the context of settler colonialism in the United States. It breaks significant ground in articulating Indigenous ways of knowing and valuing to Western philosophy—not as artifact that Western philosophy can incorporate into its canon, but rather as a force of anticolonial Indigenous liberation. Ultimately, Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land shines light on a possible road for epistemically, ontologically, and morally sovereign Indigenous futures.