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Environmental History Classics
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
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4.26 avg rating — 3,531 ratings
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Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
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4.10 avg rating — 3,938 ratings
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Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
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3.98 avg rating — 1,840 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 448,155 ratings
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Travels and Other Writings
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3.99 avg rating — 96 ratings
score: 295,
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Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
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William Cronon (Editor)
4.17 avg rating — 816 ratings
score: 288,
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An Environmental History of the World: Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life
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3.71 avg rating — 68 ratings
score: 287,
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The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
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3.83 avg rating — 638 ratings
score: 285,
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The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany
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4.01 avg rating — 181 ratings
score: 197,
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Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s
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3.79 avg rating — 898 ratings
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Something New Under the Sun : An Environmental History of the World in the 20th Century
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3.87 avg rating — 624 ratings
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Plagues and Peoples
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3.87 avg rating — 4,955 ratings
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Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas
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3.98 avg rating — 281 ratings
score: 189,
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The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China
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3.70 avg rating — 142 ratings
score: 189,
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Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003
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3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Eugene Odum: Ecosystem Ecologist and Environmentalist
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Betty Jean Craige (Goodreads Author)
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score: 100,
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Atlanta's Concealment of the Baby Gun Club Landfill
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4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 53,765 ratings
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Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis, An Abridgment
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An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century
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4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Age of Ecology
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3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 98,
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An Environmental History of Northeast Florida (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 98,
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A New Green History of the World
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3.94 avg rating — 782 ratings
score: 97,
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The Once and Future Great Lakes Country: An Ecological History (Volume 2) (McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies Series)
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4.17 avg rating — 66 ratings
score: 97,
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Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida
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Jack Emerson Davis (Editor)
4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 97,
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Natur und Macht. Weltgeschichte der Umwelt.
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3.93 avg rating — 85 ratings
score: 96,
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Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series)
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3.87 avg rating — 624 ratings
score: 96,
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Environmental History and the American South: A Reader
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Paul S. Sutter (Editor)
4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 96,
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Wilderness and the American Mind
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4.12 avg rating — 2,020 ratings
score: 95,
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Die Ära Der Ökologie: Eine Weltgeschichte
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3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 94,
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National Parks: The American Experience
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Alfred Runte (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 221 ratings
score: 94,
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Remaking Wormsloe Plantation: The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape
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score: 94,
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Conservation And The Gospel Of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890–1920
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3.54 avg rating — 48 ratings
score: 93,
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After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC
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4.08 avg rating — 1,520 ratings
score: 93,
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Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
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3.97 avg rating — 68 ratings
score: 92,
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Jekyll Island's Early Years: From Prehistory Through Reconstruction
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4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 92,
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People and the Land through Time: Linking Ecology and History
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3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 91,
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Drowned and Dammed: Colonial Capitalism and Flood Control in Eastern India
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Rohan D'Souza (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 90,
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Ecological Vignettes
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3.61 avg rating — 33 ratings
score: 90,
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Inventing Global Ecology: Tracking the Biodiversity Ideal in India, 1947–1997
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4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 88,
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