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Series
Environmental history volume no. 14
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
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Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service bought the Buenos Aires Ranch in 1985, removed all livestock, and set about to restore the land to its "original" grassland in order to protect an endangered species, the masked bobwhite quail. Sayre examines the history of the ranch and the bobwhite together, exploring the interplay of social, economic, and ecological issues to show how ranchers and their cattle altered the land - for better or worse - during a...
Author
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Landscapes of Fraud explores how the penetration of the evolving capitalist world-system created and destroyed communities in the Upper Santa Cruz Valley of Arizona from the late 1600s to the 1970s. Thomas Sheridan has melded history, anthropology, and critical geography to create a view of greed and power and their lasting effect on those left powerless."--Jacket.
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Environmental history volume no. 21
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
9) Building the borderlands: a transnational history of irrigated cotton along the Mexico-Texas border
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Environmental history volume no. 22
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Author
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Environmental history volume no. 24
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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The environmental histories of the Arctic and Antarctica are characterised by contrast and contradiction. These are places that have witnessed some of the worst environmental degradation in recent history. But they are also the locations of some of the most farsighted measures of environmental protection. They are places where people have sought to conquer nature through exploration and economic development, but in many ways they remain wild and untamed....