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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Teaching as Scholarship; or, Looking at the Global History of Energy Transitions in a Classroom in San Diego20
:The Nature of Endangerment in India: Tigers, ‘Tribes’, Extermination and Conservation, 1818–202012
:The First Atomic Bomb: The Trinity Site in New Mexico12
:Captivity’s Collections: Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade6
:Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis5
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New Scholarship4
Frozen Over: Making Ice and Knowing Nature in Nineteenth-Century America4
New Scholarship4
Shadow Places, Environmental Justice, and the Submergence of Pollution4
:The King’s Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire4
:Sea Level: A History4
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:Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration3
“And Yet It Makes Environmental Sense”: Beachfront Management and Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina3
:Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire3
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Picturing Time in the Anthropocene: Anselm Kiefer’s Ages of the World (2014)3
:Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt3
Resource or Relationship? Unpacking River Histories to Restore Wabanaki Livelihoods2
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, tables2
The Price of Adaptation: Visualizing Climate Change in the Greenland Sea, 1596–18002
New Scholarship2
Public, Private, and More: Beyond Binaries in Framing the History of Land Conservation2
:American Energy Cinema2
:Making America’s Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands2
Entangled Extinction: Endangered Elephants and Extinct Mammoth Ivory in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries2
Uniquely Japan, Uniquely Alpine: The Transformation of the Kamikōchi Mountain Valley into an Alpine Landscape, 1892–19382
:Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World’s Most Caffeine-Rich Plant2
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$192
Accounting for a Fruitful Little Ice Age: Overlapping Scales of Climate and Culture in Württemberg, 1560–15902
:Roots of Sustainability in the Iberian Empires: Shipbuilding and Forestry, 14th–19th Centuries1
:Dawn at Mineral King Valley: The Sierra Club, the Disney Company, and the Rise of Environmental Law1
Affordable Housing, Planning, and the Environment: Why Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Needs Teeth1
New Scholarship1
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Note from the Editors1
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:Drafting the Past1
:A New Ecological Order: Development and the Transformation of Nature in Eastern Europe1
Capital Prospects: Jamaica and the Environmental History of Postwar Decolonization1
From Ground to Sky: Arid Visions and the Making of the Southwest1
Return to the Yeokanta/River: Powhatan Women and Environmental Treaty Making in Early America1
:Once Upon the Permafrost: Knowing Culture and Climate Change in Siberia1
:Making Better Coffee: How Maya Farmers and Third Wave Tastemakers Create Value1
Of Time and Timing: Internal Drainage Boards and Water Level Management in the River Hull Valley1
:Strong Winds and Widow Makers: Workers, Nature, and Environmental Conflict in Pacific Northwest Timber Country1
:Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain1
Reeds, Snails, and Parasites: Schistosomiasis and Wetland Ecology in China’s Yangzi Delta from the 1870s to 19491
:Solar Adobe: Energy Ecology & Earthen Architecture1
Why Was Small Not Beautiful? Rethinking China’s Great Leap Forward through Water1
:Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice.1
:Razing Kids: Youth, Environment, and the Postwar American West1
:Meander: Making Room for Rivers1
Note from the Editors1
Front Matter1
In Memoriam: Julia Obertreis1
Fighting for Forests: Protection and Exploitation of Kŏje Island Timber during the East Asian War of 1592–15981
Bulk Wine from Big Water in a Dry Land1
:Transplanting Modernity? The Environmental Legacy of International Development1
Cicero Meets the Cretaceous1
:The Cultivated Forest: People and Woodlands in Asian History1
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“Extraordinarily Inconspicuous” Elephants: The Interspecies Constitution and Contestations of the Ivory Commodity Frontier in Nineteenth-Century South Sudan1
Reconciling Sites of Memory and Loss: Place, a Poetics of Geology, and the Implicated Writer1
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New Scholarship1
New Directions in Forest History, but Please No New Frontiers1
:Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change from 1979 to the Present1
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:Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature1
:Green Persuasion: Advertising, Voluntarism, and America’s Public Lands1
:People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America1
:Mount Sacred: A Brief History of Holy Mountains since 15001
“A Great Responsibility”: Biodiversity Crisis in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew1
:Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent1
New Scholarship1
:Death Is All around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City1
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, index1
Better Together? The Values, Obstacles, Opportunities, and Prospects for Collaborative Research in Environmental History1
Tenants’ Rights and Ecology1
:Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy1
Playing Gaia: Simulation, Science, and the Significance of Video Games for Environmental History1
:After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe1
:In a Wounded Land: Conservation, Extraction and Human Well-Being in Coastal Tanzania1
From Temperature to Terroir: Wine Research at the University of California1
The Fifth Element: The Enlightenment and the Draining of Eastern Europe1
:Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining1
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
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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
:History and the Climate Crisis: Environmental History in the Classroom1
New Scholarship1
:Agriculture’s Energy: The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil’s Green Revolution1
Water Qualities and Usage in the Zanjas of Los Angeles, 1781–19041
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:Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty1
Extinction and Its Interventions in the Americas1
:Born with a Copper Spoon: A Global History of Copper, 1830–19801
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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
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
The Birth of the Black Death: Biology, Climate, Environment, and the Beginnings of the Second Plague Pandemic in Early Fourteenth-Century Central Asia1
:The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods0
:Who Gets to Go Back-to-the-Land? Gender and Race in U.S. Self-Sufficiency Popular Culture0
:Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit0
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
Forest History and Environmental History: Kissing Cousins?0
:Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia0
:Contested Sustainability: The Political Ecology of Conservation and Development in Tanzania0
When De-extinction Really Happens: The Revival of the Floreana Giant Tortoises in the Galápagos Archipelago0
:Oil Palm: A Global History0
New Scholarship0
Southern California’s Three-Bear Shuffle: Survival, Extinction, and Recovery in an Urban Biodiversity Hot Spot0
:Spearheading Environmental Change: The Legacy of Indiana Congressman Floyd J. Fithian0
:Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences: Rethinking the Specialization Thesis0
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
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:Bellwether Histories: Animals, Humans, and US Environments in Crisis0
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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, bibli0
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The Pacific Salmon Experiment in Northern Ontario and the “Indian Problem”0
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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$900
:One Shot for Gold: Developing a Modern Mine in Northern California0
:The Russian Cold: Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow0
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, bibliogra0
Presidential Address: A Coevolutionary History of COVID-19; Culture, Biology, and Mental Health0
“A Coquettish, Hitchhiking Bug”: The Rise and Fall of Pestina, Symbol of Invasive Pests and Agricultural Quarantine0
A Spiteful Campaign: Agriculture, Forests, and Administering the Environment in Imperial Singapore and Malaya0
Man-Made Weather: The Promise, Peril, and Uncertainty of Cloud Seeding in Postwar America0
:Suomen ympäristöhistoria 1700-luvulta nykyaikaan0
:Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century0
Narrative, Place, and Environmental Justice0
Acting in the Face of Uncertainty: The Campaign to Save the American Alligator0
:The League of Nations and the Protection of the Environment0
The Environmental History of an American Bank0
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Note from the Editors0
:Settling the Boom: The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil0
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 (p0
“Green Is the Color of the Luxuriant Vegetation of Our Motherland”: Marcus Garvey, Temporality, and Wilderness as a Repeating Phase0
Forum: Global Wine at the Intersection of Climate and Culture0
“The Quiet Garden Where Spring Is Forever”: Toyo Suyemoto and the Japanese American Redress Movement0
Note from the Editors0
:Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future0
:Sharing Yerba Mate: How South America’s Most Popular Drink Defined a Region0
:Sewer of Progress: Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River0
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. 20
:From Label to Table: Regulating Food in American in the Information Age0
Land as Text: Reading the Land0
:The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism0
:Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South0
Resilience to Climate Change: Lessons Learned from the Douro Wine Terroir0
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
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
Rising Seas, Sinking Lands: Reckoning with Local and Global Sea Level in the Early Modern Netherlands0
Environmental Practices in a Colonial Context: The Mitigation of Soot Pollution in the Shanghai International Settlement, 1863–19430
Empire & Catastrophe: Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North African and Mediterranean France since 1954. By Spencer D. Segalla. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 3060
Saving Red-Crowned Cranes: Children as Charismatic Conservationists in 1960s Japan0
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In Memoriam: Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie (1929–2023)0
:Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean0
:Killing Bugs for Business and Beauty: Canada’s Aerial War against Forest Pests, 1913–19300
:Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia0
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Fukushima before Nuclear Power: Developmentalism, Substates, and the Landscape of Energy Extraction in Japan0
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); US0
:Trees and Forests of Tropical Asia: Exploring Tapovan0
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“For the English to See”: Animal Rescues and Greenwashing during the Brazilian Military Dictatorship’s Dam-Building Boom, 1970s–1980s0
“How Could the Destructive Earthquake Devil Be Bridled?”: Disasters and Pahlavi Iran, 1925–19790
:Climate and Society in Europe: The Last Thousand Years0
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Living on the Edge: A Transnational Perspective on the Mexican Wolf and Its Near-Extinction0
:Cattle Beet Capital: Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado0
In Memoriam: Maya Karin Peterson, 1980–20210
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
In Memoriam: Angus L. Wright0
:Environmental History of Modern India: Land, Population, Technology and Development0
:Nuestro viaje a la Luna: La idea de la transformación de la naturaleza en Cuba durante la Guerra Fría0
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
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
In Memoriam: Linda Nash, 1962–20210
Forests, Frontiers, and Extractivism0
:Interpreting Energy at Museums and Historic Sites0
:The Carbon Calculation: Global Climate Policy, Forests, and Transnational Governance in Brazil and Mozambique0
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
Upstream, Downstream: Iron Mining in Early Modern Japan and the Uneven Spread of Environmental Protection0
Cutover Capitalism: Connecting Labor and Nature in Forest Extraction0
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:Understanding Imperiled Earth: How Archaeology and Human History Inform a Sustainable Future0
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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 (clot0
:Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability0
Agriculture of the Uprooted: The Assyrian Settlement on the Khabur and the Agrarian Solution to Refugees0
Muddy Lines and Murky Waters: The Making of a Colonial Deltaic Forest, 1816–18280
Targeting Reform: Superfund, Industri-Plex, and Pollution Remediation in the United States0
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:Heartland River: A Cultural and Environmental History of the Big Sioux River Valley0
“Water Fit for a Christian Woman”: The Gendered and Racial Politics of Water in the Wash, 1865–19210
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Water, Engineers, and French Environmental Imaginaries of Ottoman Iraq, 1868–19080
People’s Park: Constructing Nature in the Mexican Metropolis0
:Naturalizing Inequality: Water, Race and Biopolitics in South Africa0
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. US0
Dark Trails: Animal Histories beyond the Light of Day0
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:From Environmental Loss to Resistance: Infrastructure and the Struggle for Justice in North America0
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Displacement in Galveston After Hurricane Ike: How Opponents of Public Housing Co-Opted the Language of Fair Housing and Environmental Justice0
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:Hush of the Land: A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness0
Environmental History of South Asia in the Time of Hindutva0
:Profit: An Environmental History0
Seasonal Harvests: Migration, Reproduction, and Religion in the Early Modern Spanish Tuna Fisheries0
:Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America0
New Scholarship0
:The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution0
:Squirrel Nation: Reds, Greys and the Meaning of Home0
:The Farmer’s Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm0
:Before Environmental Law: A History of a Vanishing Continent0
In Memoriam: Mark Elvin (1938–2023)0
Dreaming of Rediscovery: Botanists, Extinction, and the Tree That Sets the Brain on Fire0
From Self-Determination to Privatization (and Back Again): Water and Post–Black Power Politics in Newark, New Jersey0
“Bright Visions of Deliverance”: Black Women’s Space-Making through Stories0
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. U0
:Nuked: Echoes of the Hiroshima Bomb in St. Louis0
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68 Degrees: New York City’s Residential Heat and Hot Water Code as an Invisible Energy Policy0
Of Ice and Men: The Evolving Role of the Camera in Twentieth-Century Glacier Study0
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, maps0
:Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c. 300–11000
The Bureau of Livestock and Motorcycles: Measuring Leisure in the Bureau of Land Management’s Off-Road Era0
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Boston’s “Other River”: The Neponset Greenway, 1993–20170
“If It Happens to Them, It Happens to You”: The Highlander Folk School and the Racial Borders of Environmental Justice0
:Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History0
Drawing Barbed Wire: The Tule Lake Scrapbook of 19420
Scorched Land: The Erosion of Environmental Governance during the Bolsonaro Administration0
:Sand and Fire: Exploring a Rare Pine Barrens Landscape0
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Introduction: Fair Housing and Environmental Justice0
Still a Silent World: Fish Ears, Whale Politics, and the Science of Ocean Noise, 1941–19900
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