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

"A breath-taking first book. Nash does a terrific job."--Vicki Ruiz, author of "From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America"
"An excellent book that treats environmental history in a fresh new way."--Elliott West, author of "The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers and the Rush to Colorado"
"This book brilliantly fits human bodies into environmental history and finds a place for landscape in the history of medicine."--Warwick Anderson, author of "Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines"