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.

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.

Enclosing Water is an environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, as inscribed on the Liri valley in Italy's Central Apennines. This book tells the story of how defining water as property - both materially and discursively - led to the emergence of an industrial riverscape, and of a concomitant new ecological consciousness

Taking the idyllic Yorkshire landscape of Lower Wharfedale as the main character, Rowling builds a portrait of the symbiotic relationship between land managers and the British farmed landscape from the end of the First World War to the twenty-first century.

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.

Around the globe there are numerous mountains that have been and continue to be attributed sacredness. Decolonisation and the 'ecological turn' changed the religious power of interpretation and gave discourses about sacred mountains new meaning. Globally, however, they remain an outstanding example of cultural diversity

Who are the rural people of Africa? What does it mean to be part of a 'rural' community in contemporary Tanzania? And why is it important to debate questions of African rurality beyond the mere GDP contribution of rural land-based production? This book seeks to address questions like these.

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.