Environmental History

Papers
(The median citation count of Environmental History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
More-Than-Human Histories36
Coal Mining, Forest Management, and Deforestation in French Colonial Vietnam15
Antebellum Black Climate Science: The Medical Geography and Emancipatory Politics of James McCune Smith and Martin Delany11
The Case for the Wasteocene6
The Contradictions of Conservation: Fighting Erosion in Mao-Era China, 1953–665
An Exceptional Mortality: Dumped Munitions, Inconclusive Science, and the Mass Death of Oysters in the Thames Estuary after the First World War5
Reflections: Environmental History in the Era of COVID-195
Dark Trails: Animal Histories beyond the Light of Day4
Meaningful Clearings: Human-Ant Negotiated Landscapes in Nineteenth-Century Brazil4
An Alpine Energy Transition: The Piave River from Charcoal to “White Coal”3
Extinction and Its Interventions in the Americas3
Wastelanding and Racialized Reproductive Labor: “Long Dyings” in East Chicago from Urban Renewal to Superfund Remediation3
Saving Species: The Co-Evolution of Tortoise Taxonomy and Conservation in the Galápagos Islands3
Dangerous Beauty: Aesthetics, Politics, and Power in Anthropocene: The Human Epoch3
Making the Nēnē Matter: Valuing Life in Postwar Conservation3
Reproducing Toxicity3
“A Revolution Is a Force More Powerful Than Nature”: Extreme Weather and the Cuban Revolution, 1959–643
Toxic Commons: Toxic Global Inequality in the Age of the Anthropocene3
Migrant Flows: Hydraulic Infrastructure, Agricultural Industrialization, and Environmental Change in Western Mexico, 1940–643
Equal Risks: Workplace Discrimination, Toxic Exposure, and the Environmental Politics of Reproduction, 1976–912
Fighting for Forests: Protection and Exploitation of Kŏje Island Timber during the East Asian War of 1592–15982
Narrative, Place, and Environmental Justice2
When Conservation Turns Violent: Examining New Zealand’s Use of Toxins in Defense of the Environment2
Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Environment in Turkey2
Introduction: Nature and the New Right2
The Birth of the Black Death: Biology, Climate, Environment, and the Beginnings of the Second Plague Pandemic in Early Fourteenth-Century Central Asia2
Why Do We Poison Ourselves?2
Pope Francis, Care for Creation, and Catholic Environmental Imagery2
“Conquered by the Sparrows”: Avian Invasions in French North Africa, circa 1871–19202
Making Sense of the History of Toxicity: How Poisonous Pasts May Have Touched Me and Everybody Else2
Past and Present: Reflections on Working in a Department of Environment and Sustainability2
Fluvial Arctic Grayling and the Limits of Conservation2
A Cautionary Tale of Environmental Management: Malaria, Water Management, and Land Reclamation in Twentieth-Century Guatemala2
Land as Text: Reading the Land2
Southern California’s Three-Bear Shuffle: Survival, Extinction, and Recovery in an Urban Biodiversity Hot Spot2
Making Sense of Plague in the Vietnam War2
Absorbing Waste, Displacing Labor: Family, Environment, and the Disposable Diaper in the 1970s2
How Dinosaurs Became Tyrants of the Prehistoric2
Cow Trials, Climate Change, and the Causes of Violence2
Hunting for Meaning: British Hunters, Banjara Hunters, and Overcoming Threats to Colonial Order in Nineteenth-Century India2
Illiberal Environmentalism? The Case of Contemporary Hungary2
A Tale of Toxic Terror2
“Accustomed to Female Domination”: Women, Mass Media, and Animal Intimacy in Interwar Britain2
The Passenger Pigeon’s Past on Display for the Future2
Scorched Land: The Erosion of Environmental Governance during the Bolsonaro Administration2
Abalone: The Remarkable History and Uncertain Future of California’s Iconic Shellfish. By Ann Vileisis. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2020. 293 pp. Illustrations, graphs, notes and 1
Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics. By Tobias Menely. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. vii+269 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. US$105.00 (cloth); US1
Mexico’s Community Forest Enterprises: Success on the Commons and the Seeds of a Good Anthropocene. By David Barton Bray. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2020. xv + 292 pp. Maps, charts, t1
Ecospatiality: A Place-Based Approach to American Literature. By Lowell Wyse. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2021. 260 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. US$90.00 (p1
Unnatural Resources: Energy and Environmental Politics in Appalachia after the 1973 Oil Embargo. By Michael Camp. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. x + 192 pp. Notes and index. 1
Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities. By Vaclav Smil. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2019. xxvi + 634 pp. Illustrations, graphs, charts, appendices, bibliography, and index. Cloth $39.95, paper $191
New Scholarship1
Flood on the Tracks: Living, Dying, and the Nature of Disaster in the Elkhorn River Basin. By Todd M. Kerstetter. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2018. xviii+209 pp. Illustrations, maps, 1
The Culture of Nature in the History of Design. Edited by Kjetil Fallan. New York: Routledge, 2019. 274 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $112.00, paper $39.96, e-bo1
Corrigendum1
Conflicted American Landscapes. By David E. Nye. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. 269+x pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. US$35.00 (paper); US$25.99 (e-book).1
The Ecolaboratory: Environmental Governance and Economic Development in Costa Rica. By Robert Fletcher, Brian Dowd-Uribe, and Guntra A. Aistara. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2020. ix + 1
Environmental Racism and Violence in Rural Nova Scotia1
In Grave Danger: A Brief Environmental History of the Cuban Crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer)1
Capital Prospects: Jamaica and the Environmental History of Postwar Decolonization1
Birds, Bones, and Beetles: The Improbable Career and Remarkable Legacy of University of Kansas Naturalist Charles D. Bunker. By Chuck Warner. Lawrence: University Press of K1
Reflection: Conviviality and Companionship: Parrots and People in the African Forests1
New Scholarship1
When the Caribou Do Not Come: Indigenous Knowledge and Adaptive Management in the Western Arctic. Edited by Brenda L. Parlee and Ken J. Caine. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018. xi1
Toxic Masculinity: California’s Salton Sea and the Environmental Consequences of Manliness1
Urban Archipelago: An Environmental History of the Boston Harbor Islands. By Pavla Šimková. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021. xi+256 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. US$901
Stowaway Beetles: Carl Lindroth, the Ballast Theory, and Transatlantic Science in the Cold War1
The Bears Ears: A Human History of America’s Most Endangered Wilderness. By David Roberts. New York: W. W. Norton, 2021. xxvi + 310 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, and index. Cloth $27.95.1
Sliding Down the Timber Chute: Photographing Erasure during the 1901 British Royal Tour of Canada1
All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental: Environmental Transformation through Species Acclimatization, from Colonial Australia to the World. By Pete Minard. Chapel Hill:1
Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat . By Ai Hisano. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019. viii + 327 pp. Illustrations, graphs, notes, and i1
Stringfellow Acid Pits: The Toxic and Legal Legacy. By Brian Craig. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. 270 pp. Images, notes, and index. US$90.00 (cloth); US$24.95 (paper).1
Acting in the Face of Uncertainty: The Campaign to Save the American Alligator1
Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin. By Maya K. Peterson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xxii + 399 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, 1
The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South. By William D. Bryan. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018. xxiii+226 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. US$54.95 (cloth); $1
Uniquely Japan, Uniquely Alpine: The Transformation of the Kamikōchi Mountain Valley into an Alpine Landscape, 1892–19381
“Bright Visions of Deliverance”: Black Women’s Space-Making through Stories1
Stones at War: The Chelyabinsk War Exhibition of 1946 and Soviet Environmental Thought1
Picturing “Oil That Is People”: Energy Frontier Domesticity in Louisiana, 19441
The Settler Sea: California’s Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism. By Traci Brynne Voyles. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. xi+382 pp. Photographs, illustrations, maps, g1
The Invention of Rivers: Alexander’s Eye and Ganga’s Descent . By Dilip da Cunha. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. xii + 338 pp. Illustrations, maps, not1
Environmental History of South Asia in the Time of Hindutva1
Food Fights: How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates. Edited by Charles C. Ludington and Matthew Morse Booker. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 293 pages. Figures1
:Naturalizing Inequality: Water, Race and Biopolitics in South Africa1
The Environmental History of an American Bank1
In Memoriam: Richard Hugh Grove, 1955–20201
Native American Log Cabins in the Southeast. Edited by Gregory A. Waselkov. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2019. 236 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, bibliography1
Overrun: Dispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis . By Andrew Reeves. Toronto: ECW Press, 2019. 374 pp. Maps, bibliography, and index. Paper $18.95.1
Water, Engineers, and French Environmental Imaginaries of Ottoman Iraq, 1868–19081
Harnessing the Great Acceleration: Connecting Local and Global Environmental History at the Port of Singapore1
Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart Biography. By George Ellison and Janet McCue. Gatlinburg: Great Smoky Mountains Association, 2019. 460 pp. Maps, photographs, bibliography, notes, index. Paper 1
Battles of the North Country: Wilderness Politics and Recreational Development in the Adirondack State Park, 1920-1980. By Jonathan D. Anzalone. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 20181
Source Note: The Textual Record of Climate Change at Sea1
Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene. Curated and edited by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. Free on1
The Responsive Environment: Design, Aesthetics and the Human in the 1970s . By Larry D. BusbeaMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. xxvi + 286 pp. Illustrations, 1
Toxic Exposures: Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States . By Susan L. Smith. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2017. xi + 193 pp.1
Water Brings No Harm: Management Knowledge and the Struggle for the Waters of Kilimanjaro. By Matthew V. Bender. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019. xvi + 336 pp. Illustrat1
Reconciling Sites of Memory and Loss: Place, a Poetics of Geology, and the Implicated Writer1
:Environment and Urbanization in Modern Italy1
Design, Nature, and Revolution: Toward a Critical Ecology. By Tomás Maldonado. Translated by Mario Domandi. Foreword by Larry Busbea. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Pr1
New Scholarship1
Imperial Creatures: Humans and Other Animals in Colonial Singapore, 1819–1942. By Timothy P. Barnard. Kent Ridge: National University of Singapore Press, 2019. xiii + 264 pp. Illustrations, map1
West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands. By Astrid M. Eckert. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xvi + 422 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bi1
Water and Agriculture in Colorado and the American West: First in Line for the Rio Grande. By David Stiller. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2021. xiv+165 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, refe1
Poisonous Skies: Acid Rain and the Globalization of Pollution. By Rachel Emma Rothschild. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 336 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth $45.00, e-bo1
Of Perpetrators and Victims: Toxicity in Environmental History1
Białowieża Primeval Forest: Nature and Culture in the Nineteenth Century. By Tomasz Samojlik, Anastasia Fedotova, Piotr Daszkiewicz, and Ian D. Rotherham. Cham: Springer, 2020. 223 pp. Illustra1
A River in the City of Fountains: An Environmental History of Kansas City and the Missouri River . By Amahia Mallea. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2018. x + 348 pp. I1
Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole . By Sarah Dry. Chicago: Univ1
Of Time and Timing: Internal Drainage Boards and Water Level Management in the River Hull Valley1
Environmental and Climate Policies as the New Hobby Horse: The “Alternative for Germany” and the German Right Wing1
Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora. By Kevin Dawson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. vii + 351 pp. Illustrations, notes, a1
National Park Science: A Century of Research in South Africa. By Jane Carruthers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xxxii + 512 pp. Illustrations, maps, glossary,1
Beyond Fortress Conservation: Postcards of Biodiversity and Justice1
Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea. By David Fedman. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. xvii + 292 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and inde1
The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work . By Cara New Daggett. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. x + 268 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibl1
:Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature1
In Memoriam: Linda Nash, 1962–20211
Witnessing the End of Life As We Know It1
The Plague Cycle: The Unending War between Humanity and Infectious Disease. By Charles Kenny. New York: Scribner, 2021. xiv+304 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. US$28.00 (cloth); 1
Transforming Rural Water Governance: The Road from Resource Management to Political Action in Nicaragua. By Sarah T. RomanoTucson: University of Arizona Press, 2019. 232 pp. Illustrations, maps1
“Kans Is King and the Cultivator Is His Subject”: Environmental History and Agrarian Development in Modern India1
The Carpathians, the Hutsuls, and Ukraine: An Environmental History. By Anthony J. Amato. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. xiv+469. Illustrations, notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. US1
Morbidly Excited Soil: Sylvester Graham and the Environmental Ethos of Antebellum Reform1
Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of “Green” Capitalism. By Hannah Holleman. New Haven: Yale University Pres1
Coffee Is Not Forever: A Global History of the Coffee Leaf Rust . By Stuart McCook. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019. xxiv + 281 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliograp1
Stories in Stone: Travels through Urban Geology. By David B. Williams. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. x + 260 pp. Illustrations, table, glossary, notes, and 1
The War on the EPA. By William M. Alley and Rosemarie Alley. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. x+286 pp., notes, and bibliography. US$47.00 (cloth).1
Reterritorializing the Future: Writing Environmental Histories of the Oil Crisis from Tanzania1
Katrina: A History, 1915–2015. By Andy Horowitz. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. xi + 281 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, and index. Cloth $35.00.1
Coral Empire: Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity. By Ann Elias. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. x + 286 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and i1
:The Russian Cold: Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow1
In Memoriam: Maya Karin Peterson, 1980–20211
Shaping the African Savannah: From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia. By Michael Bollig. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xiii+404 pp. Photos, maps, tables, bibliography, 1
Environments of Empire: Networks and Agents of Ecological Change. Edited by Ulrike Kirchberger and Brett M. Bennett. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. xi + 266 pp. Notes a1
Theorizing the Mountains1
Animal City: The Domestication of America. By Andrew A. Robichaud. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 352 pp. Illustrations, maps. US$41.00 (cloth). Mad Dogs and Other New Yorker1
Understanding Wildfire in the Twenty-First Century: The Return of Disaster Fires1
Neptune’s Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea. By Antony Adler. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019. 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth $39.95.1
Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization. By On Barak. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2020. xvi + 321 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibl1
When’s a Gale a Gale? Understanding Wind as an Energetic Force in Mid-Twentieth Century Britain1
The Grass Problem: Agrostology, Agriculture, and Environmental Transformation in the New South1
Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs: Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835–1946. By Rocio Gomez. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. xvi+275 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, notes,1
Fake Silk: The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon. By Paul David Blanc. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. xvi + 309 pp. Notes and index. Cloth $40.00.1
Forum: Appalachia’s Environmental History1
The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt. By Andrea Wulf and Lillian Melcher. New York: Pantheon, 2019. 272 pp. Illustrations, and bibliography. Hardcover $29.95, e-book $151
Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America’s Long Cold War. Edited by Andra B. Chastain and Timothy W. Lorek. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press1
Legacies of the Manhattan Project: Reflections on 75 Years of a Nuclear World. Edited by Michael Mays. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2020. 280 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibl1
Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China. By Ian M. Miller. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. xxi + 265 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendices, note1
The Conservation Constitution: The Conservation Movement and Constitutional Change, 1870–1930. By Kimberly K. Smith. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019. viii + 333 pp. Notes, bibliograp1
The Dance of the Death in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Environmental Stress, Morality, and Social Response . Edited by Andrea Kiss and Kathleen Pribyl. London: Routl1
Three Sisters Wilderness: A History. By Les Joslin. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2021. 192 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. US$21.99 (paper).1
Pure Adulteration: Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food. By Benjamin R. Cohen. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2019. xv + 315 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and 1
The Other Oregon: People, Environment, and History East of the Cascades. By Thomas R. Cox. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2019. xvii + 398 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, and 1
Grinnell: America’s Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West. By John Taliaferro. New York: Liveright Publishing, 2019. xviii + 606 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliogr1
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690–1792. By Susan Sleeper-Smith. Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and1
:The Farmer’s Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm1
A Social History of American Technology. 2nd ed. By Ruth Schwartz Cowan and Matthew H. Hersch. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xvi + 368 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, and index. Pape1
Fresh Kills: A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City. By Martin Melosi. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. xv+778 pp. Illustrations, notes, tables, bibliography, and inde1
Theodore Roosevelt, Naturalist in the Arena. Edited by Char Miller and Clay S. Jenkinson. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. xxiv + 234 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Paper $24.1
A Natural History of Beer. By Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. xiv + 242 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, tables, bibliography, and in1
Living on the Edge: A Transnational Perspective on the Mexican Wolf and Its Near-Extinction1
The Swamps of East Naples: Environmental History of an Unruly Suburb. By Valerio Caruso, trans. Sara Ferraioli. Winwick: White Horse Press, 2021. ix+215 pp. Illustrations, appendices, bibliogra1
Colonial Cataclysms: Climate, Landscape, and Memory in Mexico’s Little Ice Age. By Bradley Skopyk. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2020. xv + 313 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, appendice1
To the Last Smoke: An Anthology. By Stephen J. Pyne. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2020. 436 pp. Notes and index. Paper $29.95, e-book $16.95.1
Note from the Editors1
The Nature of Canada. Edited by Colin M. Coates and Graeme Wynn. Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 2019. 376 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographic essays, and inde1
The Greater Gulf: Essays on the Environmental History of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Edited by Claire E. Campbell, Edward MacDonald, and Brian Payne. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s Unive1
Loons and the Risk of Extinction in a Warming, Toxic World1
Accounting for a Fruitful Little Ice Age: Overlapping Scales of Climate and Culture in Württemberg, 1560–15901
The Nature of Hope: Grassroots Organizing, Environmental Justice, and Political Change. Edited by Char Miller and Jeff Crane. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2018. viii + 353 pp. Notes a1
Early Insecticide Controversies and Beekeeper Advocacy in the Great Lakes Region1
Presidential Address: A Coevolutionary History of COVID-19; Culture, Biology, and Mental Health1
Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes . By Julie Michelle Klinger. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018. 340 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, 1
Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 . By Ellen Griffith Spears. New York: Routledge, 2019. xiii + 274 pp. Illustrations, table, notes, bibliography, and 1
The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream. By Jason Vuic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 21
:Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market1
The Alps: An Environmental History. By Jon Mathieu. Translated by Rose Hadshar. Medford: Polity Press. xxiv + 216 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Cl1
A New Pastoral Frontier: Colonial Development, Environmental Knowledge, and the Introduction of Trypanotolerant Cattle in French Equatorial Africa, 1945–19601
The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump. By James Morton Turner and Andrew C. Isenberg. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018. 270 pp. Illustrations, 1
The Muskrat’s New Frontier: The Rise and Fall of an American Animal Empire in Britain1
Dreaming of Rediscovery: Botanists, Extinction, and the Tree That Sets the Brain on Fire1
A Mighty Capital under Threat: The Environmental History of London. Edited by Bill Luckin and Peter Thorsheim. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. vi+282 pp. Illustrations, notes,1
Imperial Hunting and the Sublime: Race, Caste, and Aesthetics in the Central Himalayas1
Flax Americana: A History of the Fibre and Oil That Covered a Continent. By Joshua MacFayden. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 2018. xvii + 350 pp. Illustrations, maps, ch1
The Patriot Ecology of the French Far Right1
Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border. By Frederico Freitas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xvi+312 pp. iIllustrations, maps, tables1
The Forced Retirement of a Hard Worker: The Rise and Fall of Eucalyptus in Bogotá1
Figuring the Population Bomb: Gender and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century . By Carole R. McCannSeattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. xi + 304 pp. Illustration1
“A Spirit of Encroachment”: Trees, Cod, and the Political Ecology of Empire in the Newfoundland Fisheries, 1763–17831
From Local Initiative to National State Process: The Case of Rondane National Park, Norway1
Shrinking the Earth: The Rise and Decline of Natural Abundance. By Donald Worster. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. vii+265 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. US$27.95 (paper).1
Landscapes of Freedom: Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia. By Claudia Leal. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018. ix + 337 pp. I1
A History of Silence: From the Renaissance to the Present Day . By Alain Corbin. Translated by Jean Birrell. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018. viii + 156 pp. Illustrations, note1
:Nuestro viaje a la Luna: La idea de la transformación de la naturaleza en Cuba durante la Guerra Fría1
The Spectacle of Free Solo1
Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil . By Jacob Blanc. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. xviii + 296 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliog1
Seeds of Power: Explorations in Ottoman Environmental History. Edited by Onur İnal and Yavuz Köse. Cambridge: White Horse Press, 2019. 250 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, 1
The Environment and International History. By Scott Kaufman. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. xiv + 210 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth $88.00, paper $26.95, 1
When De-extinction Really Happens: The Revival of the Floreana Giant Tortoises in the Galápagos Archipelago1
Water Qualities and Usage in the Zanjas of Los Angeles, 1781–19041
City of Beasts: How Animals Shaped Georgian London. By Thomas Almeroth-Williams. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. xvii + 309 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bi1
Same River Twice: The Politics of Dam Removal and River Restoration. By Peter Brewitt. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2019. xiv + 274 pp. Illustrations, maps, not1
The Contamination of the Earth: A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age. By François Jarrige and Thomas Le Roux. Translated by Janice Egan and Michael Egan. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020. xi1
:The Defoliation of America: Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests1
From the Grounds Up: Building an Export Economy in Southern Mexico. By Casey Marina Lurtz. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. xvi + 280 pp. Map, chart, graphs, appendices, notes, bibli1
Rhythms of Catastrophe, Iterations of Inequity: Disaster Memory, Dislocation, and Disparity during Pelée’s Eruption of 19291
Nature and the Iron Curtain: Environmental Policy and Social Movements in Communist and Capitalist Countries, 1945–1990. Edited by Astrid Mignon Kirchhof and J. R. McNeill.1
Basque Immigrants and Nevada’s Sheep Industry: Geopolitics and the Making of an Agricultural Workforce, 1880–1954 . By Iker Saitua. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2019. x 1
Unwritten Rule: State-Making through Land Reform in Cambodia. By Alice Beban. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. xiv+242 pp. Illustrations, notes, tables, bibliography, and index. US$11
Understory Environmental History: Learning from the Appalachian Commons1
Memory and the Representation of Public Health Crises: Remembering the Plague of Provence in the Tricentennial1
How Not to Make a Human: Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters. By Karl Steel. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 280 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index1
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68 Degrees: New York City’s Residential Heat and Hot Water Code as an Invisible Energy Policy0
Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It. By Tom Philpott. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. 246 pp. Graphs, notes, and index. Cloth $28.00, e-bo0
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The Political Economy of Resource Regulation: An International and Comparative History, 1850–2015. Edited by Andreas R. D. Sanders, Pål Thonstad Sandvik, and Espen Storli. V0
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Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America’s Most Exclusive Shoreline. By Andrew W. Kahrl. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. 364 pp. Illustrati0
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Guadalupe Mountains National Park: An Environmental History of the Southwest Borderlands. By Jeffrey P. Shepherd. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019. xii +227 0
Frozen Over: Making Ice and Knowing Nature in Nineteenth-Century America0
“Half Man, Half Wildcat”: Itinerancy and the Myth of Frontier Manhood in the United States’ Lake Region0
:A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon0
:Dawn at Mineral King Valley: The Sierra Club, the Disney Company, and the Rise of Environmental Law0
Shadow Places, Environmental Justice, and the Submergence of Pollution0
The First Century of the International Joint Commission. Edited by Daniel Macfarlane and Murray Clamen. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2020. xviii+603 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, gr0
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In Memoriam: Angus L. Wright0
Nature and the Iron Curtain: Environmental Policy and Social Movements in Communist and Capitalist Countries, 1945–1990. Edited by Astrid Mignon Kirchhof and J. R. McNeill0
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Scarcity in the Modern World: History, Politics, Society, and Sustainability, 1800-2075. Edited by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, John Brewer, Neil Fromer, and Frank Trentmann. New York: Bloomsbury0
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Grand Canyon to Hearst Ranch: One Woman’s Fight to Save Land in the American West. By Elizabeth B. Austin. Lanham: TwoDot Press, 2020. 432 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, and index. Cloth0
A Spiteful Campaign: Agriculture, Forests, and Administering the Environment in Imperial Singapore and Malaya0
:The League of Nations and the Protection of the Environment0
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Forests, Frontiers, and Extractivism0
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