Among the most far-reaching effects of the modern environmental movement was the widespread acknowledgment that human beings were inescapably part of a larger ecosystem. With this book, Linda Nash gives us a wholly original and much longer history of “ecological” ideas of the body as that history unfolded in California’s Central Valley. Taking us from nineteenth-century fears of miasmas and faith in wilderness cures to the recent era of chemical pollution and cancer clusters, Nash charts how Americans have connected their diseases to race and place as well as dirt and germs. In this account, the rise of germ theory and the pushing aside of an earlier environmental approach to illness constituted not a clear triumph of modern biomedicine but rather a brief period of modern amnesia. As Nash shows us, place-based accounts of illness re-emerged in the postwar decades, galvanizing environmental protest against smog and toxic chemicals. Carefully researched and richly conceptual, Inescapable Ecologies brings critically important insights to the histories of environment, culture, and public health, while offering a provocative commentary on the human relationship to the larger world.

Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge

History

Nash, Linda

Americas

University of California Press

Among the most far-reaching effects of the modern environmental movement was the widespread acknowledgment that human beings were inescapably part of a larger ecosystem. With this book, Linda Nash gives us a wholly original and much longer history of ecological” ideas of the body as that history unfolded in California’s Central Valley. Taking us from nineteenth-century fears of miasmas and faith in wilderness cures to the recent era of chemical pollution and cancer clusters, Nash charts how Americans have connected their diseases to race and place as well as dirt and germs. In this account, the rise of germ theory and the pushing aside of an earlier environmental approach to illness constituted not a clear triumph of modern biomedicine but rather a brief period of modern amnesia. As Nash shows us, place-based accounts of illness re-emerged in the postwar decades, galvanizing environmental protest against smog and toxic chemicals. Carefully researched and richly conceptual, Inescapable Ecologies brings critically important insights to the histories of environment, culture, and public health, while offering a provocative commentary on the human relationship to the larger world.

Octavo, [20cm/8in], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 220. Fully illustrated with maps and b-w halftones

Chicago and Beyond: 26 Bike Tours

New Win Pub

A one-a-day motivational guide book filled with practical tips for avoiding pitfalls and becoming more successful in career and personal life. A great gift for anyone 18-80.

The Shorter Road To Success

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Prism Publications

The Bounce Back Quotient provides a personal assessment of your ability to bounce back from changes and setbacks, plus, 52 solid tips for overcoming hidden habits and increasing resilience and success. Implementing the practical To Dos will keep you from falling flat or getting stuck. You can turn your next year into a stressed less bonanza of better career, better relationships, and better life!

The Bounce Back Quotient

Business & Money

Business Culture

Prism Publications (MO)

A Tale of Three Trees describes the symbol of life, the tree, with great richness. Be transported on a journey with the trees as they find God while striving to achieve their own dreams, and then sing along with “The Tree of Life.” A folktale with gorgeous illustrations by Anna Shakeeva and lovely music by Linda Nash, A Tale of Three Trees awakens young and old to the continuous challenge to uphold all life as beautiful!

Tale of Three Trees

Genre Fiction

WestBow Press

Signposts

Corey, Jake

Small, Corey Nash

Small, Vesla

Short Stories & Anthologies

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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