Books published by White Horse Press

This book offers new perspectives on the environmental history of lands that have come under Russian and Soviet rule by paying attention to 'place' and 'nature' in the intersection between humans and the environments that surround the

This book analytically reconstructs the events of the Italian nature protection movement, contextualising them in the cultural and political-institutional climate of the time; highlights the movement's full inclusion in contemporary European protectionist initiatives; and attempts to take stock of its significance and historical legacy.

Dealing with environmental issues over more than fifty years in a historical perspective enables us to gain a better understanding transformations such as the emergence of a European public sphere and how this is changing decision-making processes.

Exploring the place of nature in the French urban environment from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century

How did beauty become, and why does it largely remain, what Emory Elliot dubbed `the forbidden subject'? This book reviews the devastating impacts modernist avant-garde, Marxism, some feminisms and postmodernism have enacted - through paranoia, blame, cynicism - on beauty, hope and desire.

The State in the Forest uses a case study of conflict over use of wood - the principal source of energy and the primary raw material at the time - to offer an environmental history of the nineteenth century `great transformation'. The focus is on Cadore, a supposedly peripheral area that was, in fact, at the core of the wood economy.

Explores historical processes and transformations that shaped the Ottoman Empire from the viewpoint of environmental history. Brings into view a vast array of integral actors and agents that played a key role in the social, economic and ecological transformations of the Ottoman Empire.

Pastoralist Livelihoods in Asian Drylands brings together the work of scholars from across Asia to discuss the transforming boundaries, agencies and risks involved in pastoralist livelihoods.

Luccarelli roots the rise of environmental awareness in the political and geographical history of the US. He considers history in terms of categorical development of space - social, territorial and conceptual - looking at urban and regional contexts, and the work of artists, writers and public figures, including Jefferson, Thoreau and Olmsted.

Study of 500 years of the Tyne that undermines the traditional reduction of rivers to mere backdrops to human activities. Eschewing narratives equating change with improvement, and declensionist ones of destruction, it focuses on the production of new rivers, situating the Tyne's transformations in political, economic, cultural and social contexts

Brings together the general lines of interpretation of Italian environmental history from the decades prior to national unification to the present day. Reconstructs processes of change in the use of natural resources in Italy, and the associated environmental and social consequences.

Presents a regional analysis of the spatial and social history of warfare among the nomadic peoples of East Africa, covering a period of 600 years. The long duree facilitates understanding of how warfare among pastoralist communities in earlier centuries contributed to political, economic and ethnic shifts across the grazing lands in East Africa.

This volume aims to grasp the main currents of thought about interactions with the wolf in modern history. It focuses on perceptions, interactions and dependencies, and includes cultural and social analyses as well as biological aspects.

This book is the first major study of British urban arboriculture between 1800 and 1914 and draws upon fresh approaches in geographical, urban and environmental history.

Farming examines 'the link between the landscape and nutrition', the complex set of factors by which food production results from human knowledge of, interaction with and attempted mastery of the natural environment.

This book considers the variegated world of mountains and their development during the last 500 years. At the book's heart stands the question of whether and in what way the 'three-dimensional history' of mountain people may reveal distinctive forms of development.

This reprint of a collection of essays on problems concerning future generations examines questions such as whether intrinsic value should be placed on the preservation of mankind, what are our obligations to posterity, and whether potential people have moral rights.

Katz explores technology's role in dominating both nature and humanity. He argues that technology dominates, and hence destroys, the natural world; it dominates, and hence destroys, critical aspects of human life and society. Technology causes an estrangement from nature, and thus a loss of meaning in human life.

An intellectual biography of pioneering environmental philosophers, Richard Sylvan and Val Plumwood.

Wild Things: Nature and the Social Imagination assembles eleven substantive and original essays on the cultural and social dimensions of environmental history. They address a global cornucopia of social and ecological systems, from Africa to Europe, North America and the Caribbean, and their temporal range extends from the 1830s into the 21st c.

Indigenous Knowledge investigates how indigenous peoples from various cultures interact with and conceptualise their environments, past and present; it offers accounts of indigenous conservation practice and traditional environmental knowledge alongside challenging explorations of how 'knowledge' is filtered through ideologies and subjectivities

Wild Things assembles eleven substantive and original essays on the cultural and social dimensions of environmental history. They address a global cornucopia of social and ecological systems, from Africa to Europe, North America and the Caribbean, and their temporal range extends from the 1830s into the twenty-first century.

The fifth volume in the reader series, 'Themes in Environmental History'. Comprising essays selected from Environment and History and Environmental Values, these inexpensive paperbacks address important aspects of environmental history through theoretical essays and case studies.

A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY, MEANING AND MATERIALITY OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT. There is a blue hole in environmental history. The thirteen essays in this very accessible collection fill it by closing the gap between land and sea, by exploring the ways the earthly and maritime realms influence one another.

AN ACCESSIBLE INTRODUCTION TO BIODIVERSITY, CONSERVATION AND THE ECO-CULTURAL NATURE OF LANDSCAPES. Key issues are addressed in short, focused chapters, supported by a detailed thousand-year timeline based on the British Isles.

The fourth volume in the reader series, 'Themes in Environmental History'. Animals examines human relationships with non-human others, exploring dynamics of exploitation, preservation and cultural interpretation.

A HISTORY OF HUNGARY'S PEOPLE AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT FROM EARLIEST TIMES TO THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY An account of Hungary's past from the perspective of environmental history, incorporating a wide range of environmentally-relevant research findings.

Explores ways in which colonial relations shaped meanings and conflicts over environmental control and management in Malawi.

Thinking Through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global History is a collection offering global perspectives on the intersections of mind and environment across a variety of discourses - from history to politics to the visual arts and architecture - and geographical locations, from Africa and Asia to Europe, North America and Australia.

The volume explores the cultures, environments and histories of deserts from various perspectives, including physics, history, archaeology anthropology. It presents a wide range of desert environments and peoples and the ever-evolving challenges they face.