Edmund Russell is the Hall Distinguished Professor of US History at the University of Kansas. He works primarily in environmental history and the history of technology. He is the author of War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring (Cambridge University Press, 2001), and co-editor, with Richard Tucker, of Natural Enemy, Natural Ally: Toward an Environmental History of War (2004). Russell's work has won the Edelstein Prize of the Society for the History of Technology, the Rachel Carson Prize, and the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society for Environmental History and the Forum for the History of Science in America.
1. Matters of life and death
2. Evolution's visible hands
3. Hunting and fishing
4. Eradication
5. Altering environments
6. Evolution revolution
7. Intentional evolution
8. Co-evolution
9. Evolution of the industrial revolution
10. History of technology
11. Environmental history
12. Conclusion
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