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Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. Major Problems in American Women’s History is the leading reader for courses on the history of American women, covering the subject’s…

环境历史学突破了传统史学的地域界限，让人回归到自然中，研究人与自然之间的互动关系和由此产生的人类历史。《气候改变历史》一书遴选了气候影响历史的代表性文章，话题涉及全球范围。以环境历史的开山人埃尔斯沃斯·亨廷顿（EllsworthHuntington

Forests have been at the fault lines of contact between African peasant communities in the Tanzanian coastal hinterland and outsiders for almost two centuries. In recent decades, a global call for biodiversity preservation has been the main challenge to Tanzanians and their forests. Thaddeus Sunseri uses the lens of forest…

Even at the height of Playboy magazine’s popularity and influence, its readers tended to be a bit sheepish about it. “I only read it for the articles,” was the common refrain—and there’s some truth to it, as no one would deny that Playboy’s articles, interviews, and fiction have always been…