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America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918by Alfred W. CrosbyISBN 0521385474 (0-521-38547-4)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Americans and Their Forests: A Historical Geographyby Alfred W. CrosbyISBN 0521332478 (0-521-33247-8)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber : A Study in Environmental Historyby Warren Dean, Alfred W. Crosby , Donald WorsterISBN 0521334772 (0-521-33477-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energyby Alfred W. CrosbyISBN 0393059359 (0-393-05935-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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We don't often recognize the humble activity of cooking for the revolutionary cultural adaptation that it is. But when the hearth fires started burning in the Paleolithic, humankind broadened the exploitation of food and initiated an avalanche of change. And we don't often associate cooking with drilling for oil, but both are innovations that allow us to tap the sun energy accumulated in organic matter. Alfred W. Crosby, a founder of the field of global history, reveals how humanity's successes hinge directly on effective uses of sun energy. But dwindling natural resources, global warming, and environmental pollution all testify to the limits of our fossil-fuel civilization. Although we haven't yet adopted a feasible alternativejust look at the embarrassment of "cold fusion" or the 2003 blackout that humbled North Americaour ingenuity and adaptability as a species give us hope. 10 illustrations, map. [via]More editions of Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy:
The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492by Alfred W. Crosby , Otto Von Mering, John Robert McNeillISBN 0275980928 (0-275-98092-8)
Softcover, Praeger Pub Text
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The Danish Revolution, 1500-1800: An Ecohistorical Interpretationby Alfred W. Crosby , Otto Von Mering, John Robert McNeillISBN 0521030439 (0-521-03043-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920by Alfred W. Crosby , Otto Von Mering, John Robert McNeillISBN 0521003482 (0-521-00348-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900v1900by Alfred W. CrosbyISBN 0521336139 (0-521-33613-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on Modern Environmental Historyby Donald Worster, Alfred W. CrosbyISBN 0521348463 (0-521-34846-3)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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The Fisherman's Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980by Donald Worster, Alfred W. CrosbyISBN 0521324270 (0-521-32427-0)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Tigers, Rice, Silk, And Silt: Environment And Economy in Late Imperial South Chinaby Donald Worster, Alfred W. CrosbyISBN 0521027764 (0-521-02776-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Year by Year in the Rock Eraby Donald Worster, Alfred W. CrosbyISBN 0275927083 (0-275-92708-3)
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