Author: William Cronon

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Coll Thrush is professor of history at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of two books: Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place (University of Washington Press, 2007), and Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire (Yale, 2016). He is also the coeditor of Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence: Native Ghosts in North American Culture and History (University of Nebraska Press, 2011). He serves as a series editor for the University of Washington Press”s Indigenous Confluences series.




58 Ebooks by William Cronon

Coll Thrush: Native Seattle
This updated edition of Native Seattle brings the indigenous story to the present day and puts the movement of recognizing Seattle’s Native past into a broader context. Native Seattle focuses on the …
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Robert M Wilson: Seeking Refuge
Each fall and spring, millions of birds travel the Pacific Flyway, the westernmost of the four major North American bird migration routes. The landscapes they cross vary from wetlands to farmland to …
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David Andrew Biggs: Quagmire
Winner of the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History In the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnam’s most important economic regions. Its sw …
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William Wyckoff: On the Road Again
In On the Road Again, William Wyckoff explores Montana’s changing physical and cultural landscape by pairing photographs taken by state highway engineers in the 1920s and 1930s with photographs taken …
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James W. Feldman: A Storied Wilderness
The Apostle Islands are a solitary place of natural beauty, with red sandstone cliffs, secluded beaches, and a rich and unique forest surrounded by the cold, blue waters of Lake Superior. But this se …
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Karen Oslund: Iceland Imagined
Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and exotic – its nature harsh, its people reclusive. Si …
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Brett L. Walker: Toxic Archipelago
Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships — and are imperiled by them a …
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Marsha Weisiger: Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country
Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country offers a fresh interpretation of the history of Navajo (Diné) pastoralism. The dramatic reduction of livestock on the Navajo Reservation in the 1930s — when hundr …
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Mark W. T. Harvey: A Symbol of Wilderness
Harvey details the first major clash between conservationists and developers after World War II, the successful fight to prevent the building of Echo Park Dam. The dam on the Green River was intended …
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Gregg Mitman: Reel Nature
Winner of the History of Science Society’s Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize in the History of Science. From the early exploits of Teddy Roosevelt in Africa to blockbuster films such as March …
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David Stradling: Conservation in the Progressive Era
Conservation was the first nationwide political movement in American history to grapple with environmental problems like waste, pollution, resource exhaustion, and sustainability. At its height, the …
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Mark Fiege: The Republic of Nature
In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation’s pas …
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James Morton Turner: The Promise of Wilderness
From Denali’s majestic slopes to the Great Swamp of central New Jersey, protected wilderness areas make up nearly twenty percent of the parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and other public lands that c …
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Cindy Ott: Pumpkin
Why do so many Americans drive for miles each autumn to buy a vegetable that they are unlikely to eat? While most people around the world eat pumpkin throughout the year, North Americans reserve it f …
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Ellen Stroud: Nature Next Door
The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees. Nature Next Door argues that the growth of cities, the construction of parks, the transformation of farming, the boom in tourism, …
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Christopher W. Wells: Car Country
For most people in the United States, going almost anywhere begins with reaching for the car keys. This is true, Christopher Wells argues, because the United States is Car Country—a nation dominated …
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William Philpott: Vacationland
Winner of the Western Writers of America 2014 Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction, Contemporary Mention the Colorado high country today and vacation imagery springs immediately to mind: mountain s …
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David Stradling: The Environmental Moment
The Environmental Moment is a collection of documents that reveal the significance of the years 1968-1972 to the environmental movement in the United States. With material ranging from short pieces f …
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Brian Allen Drake: Loving Nature, Fearing the State
A ‘conservative environmental tradition’ in America may sound like a contradiction in terms, but as Brian Allen Drake shows in Loving Nature, Fearing the State, right-leaning politicians and activist …
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Dawn Day Biehler: Pests in the City
From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions. In Pests in the City, Dawn Day Bie …
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Sarah Mittlefehldt: Tangled Roots
The Appalachian Trail, a thin ribbon of wilderness running through the densely populated eastern United States, offers a refuge from modern society and a place apart from human ideas and institutions …
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Kurkpatrick Dorsey: Whales and Nations
Before commercial whaling was outlawed in the 1980s, diplomats, scientists, bureaucrats, environmentalists, and sometimes even whalers themselves had attempted to create an international regulatory f …
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Joshua P. Howe: Behind the Curve
In 1958, Charles David Keeling began measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. His project kicked off a half century of research …
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Mark W. T. Harvey: The Wilderness Writings of Howard Zahniser
Howard Zahniser (1906–1964), executive secretary of The Wilderness Society and editor of The Living Wilderness from 1945 to 1964, is arguably the person most responsible for drafting and promoting th …
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William Wyckoff: How to Read the American West
From deserts to ghost towns, from national forests to California bungalows, many of the features of the western American landscape are well known to residents and travelers alike. But in How to Read …
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Lincoln Bramwell: Wilderburbs
Since the 1950s, the housing developments in the West that historian Lincoln Bramwell calls “wilderburbs” have offered residents both the pleasures of living in nature and the creature comforts of th …
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Richard White: Land Use, Environment, and Social Change
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 hist …
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Nancy Langston: Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares
Across the inland West, forests that once seemed like paradise have turned into an ecological nightmare. Fires, insect epidemics, and disease now threaten millions of acres of once-bountiful forests. …
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William G. Robbins: Landscapes of Promise
Landscapes of Promise is the first comprehensive environmental history of the early years of a state that has long been associated with environmental protection. Covering the period from early human …
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Richard A. Walker: The Country in the City
Winner of the Western History Association’s 2009 Hal K. Rothman Award Finalist in the Western Writers of America Spur Award for the Western Nonfiction Contemporary category (2008). The San Francisco …
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Mark Fiege: Irrigated Eden
Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Fiege’s fascinating and innovative study of irrigation in southern Idaho’s Snake River v …
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David F. Arnold: The Fishermen’s Frontier
In The Fishermen’s Frontier, David Arnold examines the economic, social, cultural, and political context in which salmon have been harvested in southeast Alaska over the past 250 years. He starts wit …
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Karl Boyd Brooks: Public Power, Private Dams
In the years following World War II, the world’s biggest dam was almost built in Hells Canyon on the Snake River in Idaho. Karl Boyd Brooks tells the story of the dam controversy, which became a refe …
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Connie Y. Chiang: Shaping the Shoreline
The Monterey coast, home to an acclaimed aquarium and the setting for John Steinbeck’s classic novel Cannery Row, was also the stage for a historical junction of industry and tourism. Shaping the Sho …
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Mark Cioc: The Rhine
The Rhine River is Europe’s most important commercial waterway, channeling the flow of trade among Switzerland, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. In this innovative study, Mark Cioc focuses on th …
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Kurkpatrick Dorsey: The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy
In the first decades of the twentieth century, fish in the Great Lakes and Puget Sound, seals in the North Pacific, and birds across North America faced a common threat: over harvesting that threaten …
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Andrew P. Duffin: Plowed Under
In Plowed Under, Andrew P. Duffin traces the transformation of the Palouse region of Washington and Idaho from land thought unusable and unproductive to a wealth-generating agricultural paradise, wei …
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Thomas Dunlap: Faith in Nature
The human impulse to religion–the drive to explain the world, humans, and humans’ place in the universe – can be seen to encompass environmentalism as an offshoot of the secular, material faith in h …
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Mark W. T. Harvey: Wilderness Forever
Winner of the Forest History Society’s 2006 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award As a central figure in the American wilderness preservation movement in the mid-twentieth century, Howard Zahniser (1906 …
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Nancy Langston: Where Land and Water Meet
Water and land interrelate in surprising and ambiguous ways, and riparian zones, where land and water meet, have effects far outside their boundaries. Using the Malheur Basin in southeastern Oregon a …
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David Louter: Windshield Wilderness
In his engaging book Windshield Wilderness, David Louter explores the relationship between automobiles and national parks, and how together they have shaped our ideas of wilderness. National parks, h …
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David Lowenthal: George Perkins Marsh
George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms. David Lowenthal here offers fresh insights, from new sour …
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Kevin R. Marsh: Drawing Lines in the Forest
Drawing boundaries around wilderness areas often serves a double purpose: protection of the land within the boundary and release of the land outside the boundary to resource extraction and other deve …
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Kathryn Morse: The Nature of Gold
In 1896, a small group of prospectors discovered a stunningly rich pocket of gold at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, and in the following two years thousands of individuals traveled …
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William G. Robbins: Landscapes of Conflict
Post-World War II Oregon was a place of optimism and growth, a spectacular natural region from ocean to high desert that seemingly provided opportunity in abundance. With the passing of time, however …
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David Stradling: Making Mountains
For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountains, David Stradling shows the transformation of the Catskills l …
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Paul S. Sutter: Driven Wild
In its infancy, the movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States was motivated less by perceived threats from industrial and agricultural activities than by concern over the impacts of a …
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Joseph E. Taylor: Making Salmon
Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Award, American Society for Environmental History Das E-Book Making Salmon wird angeboten von University of Washington Press und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kateg …
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Coll Thrush: Native Seattle
Winner of the 2008 Washington State Book Award for History/Biography In traditional scholarship, Native Americans have been conspicuously absent from urban history. Indians appear at the time of cont …
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Brett L. Walker: The Lost Wolves of Japan
Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became noxious animals that …
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Thomas Dunlap: DDT, Silent Spring, and the Rise of Environmentalism
No single event played a greater role in the birth of modern environmentalism than the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and its assault on insecticides. The documents collected by Thomas …
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Loren Eiseley: Firmament of Time
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Loren Eiseley: Unexpected Universe
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Loren Eiseley: Invisible Pyramid
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Loren Eiseley: Night Country
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William Cronon: Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
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, en …
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William Cronon: Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics. In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William …
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