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Chatty's seminal study of the transition from pack animals to mechanized transport in Northern Arabia addresses Bedouin tradition, modernity, and the marriage of the two.]

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.

Bio-invaders, investigates the rhetoric and realities of exotic, introduced and 'alien' species. The book comprises a number of general essays, exploring and challenging common perceptions about such species, and a series of case studies of specific species in specific contexts.

A collection that examines the complex interrelations between societies in different parts of the world and the soils they relied on from the perspectives of geomorphology, archaeology, pedology and history.

Studies the historical transition from the agrarian solar energy regime to the use of fossil energy, which has fuelled the industrial transformation of the last 200 years. This title argues that the analysis of historical energy systems provides an explanation for the basic patterns of different social formations.

A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS PLACING THE HUMAN - WOLF RELATIONSHIP IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE. International in range and chronological in organisation, this volume aims to grasp the main currents of thought about interactions with the wolf in modern history and the major shift in perception from dangerous predator to endangered species.