Books by Faculty

Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement

July 20, 2021

Camping Grounds rediscovers unexpected and interwoven histories of sleeping outside.

Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living

During a difficult time, Karen Auvinen flees to a primitive cabin in the Rockies to live in solitude as a writer and to embrace all the beauty and brutality nature has to offer. What she found was a community.

Cover of Nan Goodman鈥檚 book, 鈥淭he Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination"

The Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination

In Nan Goodman鈥檚 book, 鈥淭he Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination,鈥� she traces a sense of kinship that emerged from within the larger realm of Puritan law and literature in late seventeenth-century New England.

Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain

Brian A. Catlos鈥� book, Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain (2018, Basic Books), explores the history of Islamic Spain and displays a complex portrait of how Muslims, Christians and Jews built a sophisticated civilization that transformed the Western world.

More than Just Mountains

Craig Jones's book The Mountains That Remade America (2017, University of California Press) reflects on the Sierra Nevada range and how the mountains have changed the way Americans live.