Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
By: Bathsheba Demuth
4.30
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Salué comme un événement scientifique, primé à neuf reprises, ce livre magistral est la toute premi…
Want to Read $ 9.99If you liked the history plot in Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth , here is a list of 15 books like this:
1. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Michel-Rolph Trouillot's Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History book and Bathsheba Demuth's Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
- nonfiction
- history
- academic
"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
2. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
By: William Cronon , John Putnam Demos , Tere LoPrete
3.66
Format: 296 pages,
Want to ReadSimilar categories in William Cronon's Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England book and Bathsheba Demuth's Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
- nature
- ecology
- history
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
3. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
By: Carlo Ginzburg , John Tedeschi , Anne Tedeschi
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Carlo Ginzburg's The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller book and Bathsheba Demuth's Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
- nonfiction
- history
- academic
4. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
By: William Cronon
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West book and Bathsheba Demuth's Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
- nonfiction
- history
- environment
5. The Politics of the Veil
By: Joan Wallach Scott
4.03
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Joan Wallach Scott's The Politics of the Veil book and Bathsheba Demuth's Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
6. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River
By: Richard White , Eric Foner
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American h… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Richard White's The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River book and Bathsheba Demuth's Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
7. Genesis (Memory of Fire, #1)
By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
"From pre-Columbian creation myths and the first European voyages of discovery and conquest to the … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Eduardo Galeano's Genesis (Memory of Fire, #1) book and Bathsheba Demuth's Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
8. Empire of Cotton: A Global History
By: Sven Beckert
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, a… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Sven Beckert's Empire of Cotton: A Global History book and Bathsheba Demuth's Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
9. Gun Island
By: Amitav Ghosh
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07DNDDFLD Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns De… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island book and Bathsheba Demuth's Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
- climate change
- environment
"That the world of today presents all the symptoms of demonic possession."-Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island
"... there was a land of sugar, where everything was sweet; and also a country made of cloth, and an island of chains."-Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island
"People think that knowing the future can help you prepare for what is to come - but often it only makes you powerless."-Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island
"Sometimes, said Moyna, it seemed as though both land and water were turning against those who lived in the Sunderbans."-Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island
10. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
By: Dan Flores
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Dan Flores's Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America book and Bathsheba Demuth's Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
- nature
- history
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
11. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Tiya Miles's All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake book and Bathsheba Demuth's Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
- nonfiction
- history
"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
12. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Henry Grabar's Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World book and Bathsheba Demuth's Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
- nonfiction
- history
- environment
13. Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
By: George Monbiot
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"This remarkable book, staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet, points us convincingly … read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in George Monbiot's Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet book and Bathsheba Demuth's Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
- nature
- ecology
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- science
"Charity is what happens when government fails."-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
"Obesity is a communicable disease. Its vectors are corporations."-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
"Campaigners, chefs, and food writers rail against “intensive farming,"-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
14. Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
By: Adom Getachew
4.12
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard hi… read more
Want to Read $ 15.63Similar categories in Adom Getachew's Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination book and Bathsheba Demuth's Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
- nonfiction
- history
15. Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
By: Bathsheba Demuth
4.30
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Salué comme un événement scientifique, primé à neuf reprises, ce livre magistral est la toute premi… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Bathsheba Demuth's Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait book and Bathsheba Demuth's Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
- russia
- ecology
- history
- academic
- natural history
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
16. Colonialism in Global Perspective
By: Kris Manjapra
3.68
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Kris Manjapra weaves together the study of colonialism over the past 500 years, across the globe's … read more
Want to Read $ 20.99Similar categories in Kris Manjapra's Colonialism in Global Perspective book and Bathsheba Demuth's Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
- history
- nonfiction
17. On Time and Water
By: Andri Snær Magnason
4.27
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
In the next hundred years, the nature of water on Earth will undergo a fundamental change. Glaciers… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Andri Snær Magnason's On Time and Water book and Bathsheba Demuth's Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
- ecology
- history
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
"Molte persone hanno avuto negli ultimi mesi la sensazione di vivere un'apocalisse, ma occorre ricordare che il significato della parola greca apokálypsis è «rivelazione». In questo senso i fatti rece…"-Andri Snær Magnason, On Time and Water
"Sullo schermo le diapositive continuano a scorrere: adesso sono più che altro foto di loro due sugli sci. Il nonno trasporta legname nel rifugio sopra la Draumadalur, nei Bláfjöll. Il rifugio si chia…"-Andri Snær Magnason, On Time and Water
"Anche se la spudorata devastazione di quel luogo tanto speciale mi rattristava molto, ho optato per parole che tutti potessero considerare sensate e adeguate. Ho usato il linguaggio predominante del …"-Andri Snær Magnason, On Time and Water
"Per tutto il XX secolo abbiamo preteso che la terra ci fosse utile, abbiamo voluto aumentarne la resa [...]. Buonsenso, lo abbiamo chiamato. A che ci serve una palude? Perché avere tante mosche? Perc…"-Andri Snær Magnason, On Time and Water
18. Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
By: Charles King
4.27
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of wo… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Charles King's Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century book and Bathsheba Demuth's Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
- nonfiction
- history
- science
19. The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
By: Michael Strevens
3.74
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
• Why is science so powerful? • Why did it take so long—two thousand years after the invention of … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Michael Strevens's The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science book and Bathsheba Demuth's Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
- nonfiction
- history
- science
20. Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
By: Vanessa Machado De Oliveira
4.42
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
For fans of Everything Is F*cked and Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, a book … read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Vanessa Machado De Oliveira's Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism book and Bathsheba Demuth's Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
- climate change
- nonfiction
- history
21. A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars
By: Erin Sharkey
4.31
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2023 A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in c… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Erin Sharkey's A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars book and Bathsheba Demuth's Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
- nature
- history
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
