OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Teaching as Scholarship; or, Looking at the Global History of Energy Transitions in a Classroom in San Diego	19
:The Nature of Endangerment in India: Tigers, ‘Tribes’, Extermination and Conservation, 1818–2020	11
:The First Atomic Bomb: The Trinity Site in New Mexico	11
:Captivity’s Collections: Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade	6
Front Matter	5
:Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis	5
Shadow Places, Environmental Justice, and the Submergence of Pollution	4
Back Matter	4
:Sea Level: A History	4
New Scholarship	4
Frozen Over: Making Ice and Knowing Nature in Nineteenth-Century America	4
:The King’s Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire	3
Front Cover	3
Picturing Time in the Anthropocene: Anselm Kiefer’s Ages of the World (2014)	3
Back Matter	3
New Scholarship	3
Resource or Relationship? Unpacking River Histories to Restore Wabanaki Livelihoods	3
Front Matter	3
“And Yet It Makes Environmental Sense”: Beachfront Management and Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina	3
Uniquely Japan, Uniquely Alpine: The Transformation of the Kamikōchi Mountain Valley into an Alpine Landscape, 1892–1938	2
:Making America’s Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands	2
:Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration	2
:Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt	2
The Transcendentalists and Their World. By Robert A. Gross. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021. xx+836 pp. Maps, notes, images, plates, index. US$40.00 (cloth); US$22.00 (paper); US$19	2
The Price of Adaptation: Visualizing Climate Change in the Greenland Sea, 1596–1800	2

Accounting for a Fruitful Little Ice Age: Overlapping Scales of Climate and Culture in Württemberg, 1560–1590	2
:Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World’s Most Caffeine-Rich Plant	2
Public, Private, and More: Beyond Binaries in Framing the History of Land Conservation	2
New Scholarship	2
:American Energy Cinema	2
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, tables	2
:Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire	2
Entangled Extinction: Endangered Elephants and Extinct Mammoth Ivory in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries	2
New Scholarship	1
:Roots of Sustainability in the Iberian Empires: Shipbuilding and Forestry, 14th–19th Centuries	1
:History and the Climate Crisis: Environmental History in the Classroom	1
Reeds, Snails, and Parasites: Schistosomiasis and Wetland Ecology in China’s Yangzi Delta from the 1870s to 1949	1
:Meander: Making Room for Rivers	1
:Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature	1
Capital Prospects: Jamaica and the Environmental History of Postwar Decolonization	1
:Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change from 1979 to the Present	1
:Mount Sacred: A Brief History of Holy Mountains since 1500	1
“Extraordinarily Inconspicuous” Elephants: The Interspecies Constitution and Contestations of the Ivory Commodity Frontier in Nineteenth-Century South Sudan	1
Note from the Editors	1
Front Cover	1
A Wild Bird and a Cultured Man. The Common Eider and Homo Sapiens: Fourteen Centuries Together. By Alexandra Goryashko. Saint Petersburg, 2020. 496 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index	1
New Directions in Forest History, but Please No New Frontiers	1
:Strong Winds and Widow Makers: Workers, Nature, and Environmental Conflict in Pacific Northwest Timber Country	1
Water Qualities and Usage in the Zanjas of Los Angeles, 1781–1904	1
:Agriculture’s Energy: The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil’s Green Revolution	1
Extinction and Its Interventions in the Americas	1
:Razing Kids: Youth, Environment, and the Postwar American West	1
Tenants’ Rights and Ecology	1
:In a Wounded Land: Conservation, Extraction and Human Well-Being in Coastal Tanzania	1
:Transplanting Modernity? The Environmental Legacy of International Development	1
:Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy	1
Better Together? The Values, Obstacles, Opportunities, and Prospects for Collaborative Research in Environmental History	1
:The Cultivated Forest: People and Woodlands in Asian History	1
Cicero Meets the Cretaceous	1
:Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice.	1
:Once Upon the Permafrost: Knowing Culture and Climate Change in Siberia	1
Of Time and Timing: Internal Drainage Boards and Water Level Management in the River Hull Valley	1
Why Was Small Not Beautiful? Rethinking China’s Great Leap Forward through Water	1
The Birth of the Black Death: Biology, Climate, Environment, and the Beginnings of the Second Plague Pandemic in Early Fourteenth-Century Central Asia	1
Front Cover	1
From Temperature to Terroir: Wine Research at the University of California	1
Return to the Yeokanta/River: Powhatan Women and Environmental Treaty Making in Early America	1
“A Great Responsibility”: Biodiversity Crisis in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	1
:Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent	1
:Green Persuasion: Advertising, Voluntarism, and America’s Public Lands	1
:Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain	1
:Solar Adobe: Energy Ecology & Earthen Architecture	1
:Making Better Coffee: How Maya Farmers and Third Wave Tastemakers Create Value	1
:Death Is All around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City	1
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. Illustra	1

Note from the Editors	1
The Fifth Element: The Enlightenment and the Draining of Eastern Europe	1
In Memoriam: Julia Obertreis	1
New Scholarship	1
New Scholarship	1
:Born with a Copper Spoon: A Global History of Copper, 1830–1980	1
:Dawn at Mineral King Valley: The Sierra Club, the Disney Company, and the Rise of Environmental Law	1
Affordable Housing, Planning, and the Environment: Why Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Needs Teeth	1
New Scholarship	1
:Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining	1
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 Yorker	1
Front Cover	1
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
:Drafting the Past	1
Front Matter	1
Front Matter	1
:Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty	1
:People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America	1
Bulk Wine from Big Water in a Dry Land	1
Fighting for Forests: Protection and Exploitation of Kŏje Island Timber during the East Asian War of 1592–1598	1
Back Matter	1
Front Matter	1
:After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe	1
:Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History	0
Environmental Practices in a Colonial Context: The Mitigation of Soot Pollution in the Shanghai International Settlement, 1863–1943	0
Fukushima before Nuclear Power: Developmentalism, Substates, and the Landscape of Energy Extraction in Japan	0
Land as Text: Reading the Land	0
Front Cover	0
:The Carbon Calculation: Global Climate Policy, Forests, and Transnational Governance in Brazil and Mozambique	0
:Suomen ympäristöhistoria 1700-luvulta nykyaikaan	0
Southern California’s Three-Bear Shuffle: Survival, Extinction, and Recovery in an Urban Biodiversity Hot Spot	0
A Spiteful Campaign: Agriculture, Forests, and Administering the Environment in Imperial Singapore and Malaya	0
:Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century	0
“Green Is the Color of the Luxuriant Vegetation of Our Motherland”: Marcus Garvey, Temporality, and Wilderness as a Repeating Phase	0
:The League of Nations and the Protection of the Environment	0
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,	0
Agriculture of the Uprooted: The Assyrian Settlement on the Khabur and the Agrarian Solution to Refugees	0
Note from the Editors	0
Environmental Thought: A Short History. By Robin Attfield. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021. 268 pp. Images, bibliography, index. US$69.95 (cloth); US$24.95 (paper); US$20.00 (e-book).	0
Front Matter	0
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. US	0
:Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future	0
Muddy Lines and Murky Waters: The Making of a Colonial Deltaic Forest, 1816–1828	0
:Sand and Fire: Exploring a Rare Pine Barrens Landscape	0
The Patriot Ecology of the French Far Right	0
The Bureau of Livestock and Motorcycles: Measuring Leisure in the Bureau of Land Management’s Off-Road Era	0
:The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism	0
“If It Happens to Them, It Happens to You”: The Highlander Folk School and the Racial Borders of Environmental Justice	0
Seasonal Harvests: Migration, Reproduction, and Religion in the Early Modern Spanish Tuna Fisheries	0
:Spearheading Environmental Change: The Legacy of Indiana Congressman Floyd J. Fithian	0
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$90	0
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,	0
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. 2	0
:One Shot for Gold: Developing a Modern Mine in Northern California	0
:Before Environmental Law: A History of a Vanishing Continent	0
Front Matter	0
In Memoriam: Mark Elvin (1938–2023)	0
:Interpreting Energy at Museums and Historic Sites	0
Three Sisters Wilderness: A History. By Les Joslin. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2021. 192 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. US$21.99 (paper).	0
Man-Made Weather: The Promise, Peril, and Uncertainty of Cloud Seeding in Postwar America	0
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).	0
Dark Trails: Animal Histories beyond the Light of Day	0
:Naturalizing Inequality: Water, Race and Biopolitics in South Africa	0
The Pacific Salmon Experiment in Northern Ontario and the “Indian Problem”	0
Cities and the Mobility of Nature: Landslide Hazards in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh	0
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); US	0
:California Catastrophes: The Natural Disaster History of the Golden State	0
:Squirrel Nation: Reds, Greys and the Meaning of Home	0
Front Matter	0
In Memoriam: Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie (1929–2023)	0
Dreaming of Rediscovery: Botanists, Extinction, and the Tree That Sets the Brain on Fire	0
Narrative, Place, and Environmental Justice	0
New Scholarship	0
Note from the Editors	0
:Bellwether Histories: Animals, Humans, and US Environments in Crisis	0
:Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c. 300–1100	0
Back Matter	0
Living on the Edge: A Transnational Perspective on the Mexican Wolf and Its Near-Extinction	0
Front Cover	0
Water, Engineers, and French Environmental Imaginaries of Ottoman Iraq, 1868–1908	0

:Cattle Beet Capital: Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado	0
Introduction: Fair Housing and Environmental Justice	0
In Memoriam: Angus L. Wright	0
New Scholarship	0
Forest History and Environmental History: Kissing Cousins?	0
Back Matter	0
“Bright Visions of Deliverance”: Black Women’s Space-Making through Stories	0
Cutover Capitalism: Connecting Labor and Nature in Forest Extraction	0
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, bibliogra	0
Saving Red-Crowned Cranes: Children as Charismatic Conservationists in 1960s Japan	0
Asphalt: A History. By Kenneth O’Reilly. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. xii+329 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. US$29.95 (cloth or e-book).	0
Front Cover	0
Targeting Reform: Superfund, Industri-Plex, and Pollution Remediation in the United States	0
:Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability	0
:Who Gets to Go Back-to-the-Land? Gender and Race in U.S. Self-Sufficiency Popular Culture	0
:Understanding Imperiled Earth: How Archaeology and Human History Inform a Sustainable Future	0
:Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South	0
:From Label to Table: Regulating Food in American in the Information Age	0
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).	0
Upstream, Downstream: Iron Mining in Early Modern Japan and the Uneven Spread of Environmental Protection	0
Note from the Editors	0
Back Matter	0
Note from the Editors	0
:The Farmer’s Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm	0
Acting in the Face of Uncertainty: The Campaign to Save the American Alligator	0
Note from the Editors	0
Presidential Address: A Coevolutionary History of COVID-19; Culture, Biology, and Mental Health	0
:Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia	0
“How Could the Destructive Earthquake Devil Be Bridled?”: Disasters and Pahlavi Iran, 1925–1979	0
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,	0
:Killing Bugs for Business and Beauty: Canada’s Aerial War against Forest Pests, 1913–1930	0
:Environmental History of Modern India: Land, Population, Technology and Development	0
Note from the Editors	0
Note from the Editors	0
:Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America	0
:Profit: An Environmental History	0
:Trees and Forests of Tropical Asia: Exploring Tapovan	0
In Memoriam: Linda Nash, 1962–2021	0
Front Matter	0
:The Russian Cold: Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow	0
:Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean	0
Displacement in Galveston After Hurricane Ike: How Opponents of Public Housing Co-Opted the Language of Fair Housing and Environmental Justice	0
:Nuked: Echoes of the Hiroshima Bomb in St. Louis	0
The Environmental History of an American Bank	0
Empire & Catastrophe: Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North African and Mediterranean France since 1954. By Spencer D. Segalla. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 306	0
Front Matter	0
The Great Quake Debate: The Crusader, the Skeptic, and the Rise of Modern Seismology. By Susan Hough. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. xi+317 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibli	0
Back Matter	0
:Nuestro viaje a la Luna: La idea de la transformación de la naturaleza en Cuba durante la Guerra Fría	0
:Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia	0
People’s Park: Constructing Nature in the Mexican Metropolis	0
Note from the Editors	0
The Great Convergence: Environmental Histories of BRICS. Edited by S. Ravi Rajan and Lise Sedrez. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018. xix+442 pp. Images, notes, bibliography, and index. U	0
Boston’s “Other River”: The Neponset Greenway, 1993–2017	0
68 Degrees: New York City’s Residential Heat and Hot Water Code as an Invisible Energy Policy	0
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 (p	0
:Heartland River: A Cultural and Environmental History of the Big Sioux River Valley	0
Drawing Barbed Wire: The Tule Lake Scrapbook of 1942	0
Forests, Frontiers, and Extractivism	0
“Water Fit for a Christian Woman”: The Gendered and Racial Politics of Water in the Wash, 1865–1921	0
:Sharing Yerba Mate: How South America’s Most Popular Drink Defined a Region	0
Dams, Deals, and a Noble Myth: Saving Grand Canyon. By Byron E. Pearson. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2019. xxii+344 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. US$35.96 (clot	0
Scorched Land: The Erosion of Environmental Governance during the Bolsonaro Administration	0
:Sewer of Progress: Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River	0
:Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit	0
Still a Silent World: Fish Ears, Whale Politics, and the Science of Ocean Noise, 1941–1990	0
“The Quiet Garden Where Spring Is Forever”: Toyo Suyemoto and the Japanese American Redress Movement	0
Forum: Global Wine at the Intersection of Climate and Culture	0
A New Pastoral Frontier: Colonial Development, Environmental Knowledge, and the Introduction of Trypanotolerant Cattle in French Equatorial Africa, 1945–1960	0
When De-extinction Really Happens: The Revival of the Floreana Giant Tortoises in the Galápagos Archipelago	0
New Scholarship	0
Resilience to Climate Change: Lessons Learned from the Douro Wine Terroir	0
Note from the Editors	0
“For the English to See”: Animal Rescues and Greenwashing during the Brazilian Military Dictatorship’s Dam-Building Boom, 1970s–1980s	0
Front Matter	0
“A Coquettish, Hitchhiking Bug”: The Rise and Fall of Pestina, Symbol of Invasive Pests and Agricultural Quarantine	0
:The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods	0
:Climate and Society in Europe: The Last Thousand Years	0
From Self-Determination to Privatization (and Back Again): Water and Post–Black Power Politics in Newark, New Jersey	0
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 inde	0
Environmental History of South Asia in the Time of Hindutva	0
Note from the Editors	0
Guadalupe Mountains National Park: An Environmental History of the Southwest Borderlands. By Jeffrey P. Shepherd. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019. x+201 pp. Illustrations, maps	0
:Hush of the Land: A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness	0
Of Ice and Men: The Evolving Role of the Camera in Twentieth-Century Glacier Study	0
The Forced Retirement of a Hard Worker: The Rise and Fall of Eucalyptus in Bogotá	0
New Scholarship	0
Front Matter	0
:Oil Palm: A Global History	0
:The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution	0
:From Environmental Loss to Resistance: Infrastructure and the Struggle for Justice in North America	0
Making Plastics Count: Citizen Science Beach Cleanups and the Ocean Plastic Pollution Crisis (1980s–2020s)	0
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); $	0
:Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences: Rethinking the Specialization Thesis	0
:Settling the Boom: The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil	0