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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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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. 11
Teaching as Scholarship; or, Looking at the Global History of Energy Transitions in a Classroom in San Diego7
Frozen Over: Making Ice and Knowing Nature in Nineteenth-Century America6
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:The Nature of Endangerment in India: Tigers, ‘Tribes’, Extermination and Conservation, 1818–20205
:The First Atomic Bomb: The Trinity Site in New Mexico5
:Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis4
Shadow Places, Environmental Justice, and the Submergence of Pollution4
:Captivity’s Collections: Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade4
:Sea Level: A History4
Picturing Time in the Anthropocene: Anselm Kiefer’s Ages of the World (2014)3
New Scholarship3
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“And Yet It Makes Environmental Sense”: Beachfront Management and Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina3
New Scholarship3
:Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration3
Antebellum Black Climate Science: The Medical Geography and Emancipatory Politics of James McCune Smith and Martin Delany3
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:The King’s Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire3
Resource or Relationship? Unpacking River Histories to Restore Wabanaki Livelihoods3
:Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World’s Most Caffeine-Rich Plant3
:Making Better Coffee: How Maya Farmers and Third Wave Tastemakers Create Value2
:Making America’s Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands2
New Scholarship2
From Temperature to Terroir: Wine Research at the University of California2
The Price of Adaptation: Visualizing Climate Change in the Greenland Sea, 1596–18002
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
Uniquely Japan, Uniquely Alpine: The Transformation of the Kamikōchi Mountain Valley into an Alpine Landscape, 1892–19382
Capital Prospects: Jamaica and the Environmental History of Postwar Decolonization2
:Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining2
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:American Energy Cinema2
Entangled Extinction: Endangered Elephants and Extinct Mammoth Ivory in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries2
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, bibliogr2
Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax: A 50th Anniversary Retrospective2
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 a2
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Accounting for a Fruitful Little Ice Age: Overlapping Scales of Climate and Culture in Württemberg, 1560–15902
Volkswagen in the Amazon: The Tragedy of Global Development in Modern Brazil. By Antoine Acker. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xiv + 314 pp. Illustrations, notes, maps, figures, ab2
Public, Private, and More: Beyond Binaries in Framing the History of Land Conservation2
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
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
Harnessing the Great Acceleration: Connecting Local and Global Environmental History at the Port of Singapore1
New Scholarship1
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New Scholarship1
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:Solar Adobe: Energy Ecology & Earthen Architecture1
:After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe1
Extinction and Its Interventions in the Americas1
Nomad’s Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World. By Andrea E. Duffy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. xxvi + 306 pp. Illustra1
The Fifth Element: The Enlightenment and the Draining of Eastern Europe1
:Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change from 1979 to the Present1
New Scholarship1
:Transplanting Modernity? The Environmental Legacy of International Development1
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:Dawn at Mineral King Valley: The Sierra Club, the Disney Company, and the Rise of Environmental Law1
:In a Wounded Land: Conservation, Extraction and Human Well-Being in Coastal Tanzania1
In Grave Danger: A Brief Environmental History of the Cuban Crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer)1
:Meander: Making Room for Rivers1
Reconciling Sites of Memory and Loss: Place, a Poetics of Geology, and the Implicated Writer1
Why Was Small Not Beautiful? Rethinking China’s Great Leap Forward through Water1
Understanding Wildfire in the Twenty-First Century: The Return of Disaster Fires1
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“A Spirit of Encroachment”: Trees, Cod, and the Political Ecology of Empire in the Newfoundland Fisheries, 1763–17831
:Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain1
“A Great Responsibility”: Biodiversity Crisis in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew1
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, gr1
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
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
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
:Born with a Copper Spoon: A Global History of Copper, 1830–19801
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
Memory and the Representation of Public Health Crises: Remembering the Plague of Provence in the Tricentennial1
Of Time and Timing: Internal Drainage Boards and Water Level Management in the River Hull Valley1
:Agriculture’s Energy: The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil’s Green Revolution1
:The Cultivated Forest: People and Woodlands in Asian History1
Note from the Editors1
Bulk Wine from Big Water in a Dry Land1
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:Razing Kids: Youth, Environment, and the Postwar American West1
In Memoriam: Julia Obertreis1
Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Environment in Turkey1
:Once Upon the Permafrost: Knowing Culture and Climate Change in Siberia1
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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
Cicero Meets the Cretaceous1
:Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis1
:The Greater Plains: Rethinking a Region’s Environmental Histories1
New Directions in Forest History, but Please No New Frontiers1
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:At the Base of the Giant’s Throat: The Past and Future of America’s Great Dams1
Return to the Yeokanta/River: Powhatan Women and Environmental Treaty Making in Early America1
:On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia1
:Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent1
“Extraordinarily Inconspicuous” Elephants: The Interspecies Constitution and Contestations of the Ivory Commodity Frontier in Nineteenth-Century South Sudan1
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
Reeds, Snails, and Parasites: Schistosomiasis and Wetland Ecology in China’s Yangzi Delta from the 1870s to 19491
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The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century. By Guiliano Garavini. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xiv + 420 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. Clot1
:Strong Winds and Widow Makers: Workers, Nature, and Environmental Conflict in Pacific Northwest Timber Country1
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
:Mount Sacred: A Brief History of Holy Mountains since 15001
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:Roots of Sustainability in the Iberian Empires: Shipbuilding and Forestry, 14th–19th Centuries1
The Birth of the Black Death: Biology, Climate, Environment, and the Beginnings of the Second Plague Pandemic in Early Fourteenth-Century Central Asia1
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
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:Death Is All around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City1
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Before the Reign of Smokey Bear: Patterns of Persuasion in Early Twentieth-Century Forest Fire Prevention Posters1
:Green Persuasion: Advertising, Voluntarism, and America’s Public Lands1
From Ground to Sky: Arid Visions and the Making of the Southwest1
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
Better Together? The Values, Obstacles, Opportunities, and Prospects for Collaborative Research in Environmental History1
:The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis1
Fishwork Is for the Birds: Humans and Birds in the Sixteenth-Century Northwest Atlantic1
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:A New Ecological Order: Development and the Transformation of Nature in Eastern Europe1
Note from the Editors1
Water Qualities and Usage in the Zanjas of Los Angeles, 1781–19041
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
Reflection: Conviviality and Companionship: Parrots and People in the African Forests1
Fighting for Forests: Protection and Exploitation of Kŏje Island Timber during the East Asian War of 1592–15981
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:Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature1
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Corrigendum to: Stowaway Beetles: Carl Lindroth, the Ballast Theory, and Transatlantic Science in the Cold War0
“Green Is the Color of the Luxuriant Vegetation of Our Motherland”: Marcus Garvey, Temporality, and Wilderness as a Repeating Phase0
:Suomen ympäristöhistoria 1700-luvulta nykyaikaan0
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
Acting in the Face of Uncertainty: The Campaign to Save the American Alligator0
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
Scorched Land: The Erosion of Environmental Governance during the Bolsonaro Administration0
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. Pape0
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
:The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution0
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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. xi0
:Hush of the Land: A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness0
Forum: Global Wine at the Intersection of Climate and Culture0
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
Man-Made Weather: The Promise, Peril, and Uncertainty of Cloud Seeding in Postwar America0
The Case for the Wasteocene0
In Memoriam: Linda Nash, 1962–20210
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:Sand and Fire: Exploring a Rare Pine Barrens Landscape0
In Memoriam: Mark Elvin (1938–2023)0
The Miramichi Fire: A History. By Alan MacEachern. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. 288 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth CDN0
68 Degrees: New York City’s Residential Heat and Hot Water Code as an Invisible Energy Policy0
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
Making Sense of the History of Toxicity: How Poisonous Pasts May Have Touched Me and Everybody Else0
Cutover Capitalism: Connecting Labor and Nature in Forest Extraction0
Note from the Editors0
Land as Text: Reading the Land0
Southern California’s Three-Bear Shuffle: Survival, Extinction, and Recovery in an Urban Biodiversity Hot Spot0
Stowaway Beetles: Carl Lindroth, the Ballast Theory, and Transatlantic Science in the Cold War0
“Bright Visions of Deliverance”: Black Women’s Space-Making through Stories0
Agriculture of the Uprooted: The Assyrian Settlement on the Khabur and the Agrarian Solution to Refugees0
Note from the Editors0
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. By Bathsheba Demuth. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2019. xiv + 416 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, and index. Cloth $27.95, 0
:Bellwether Histories: Animals, Humans, and US Environments in Crisis0
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
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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
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
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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
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Saving Red-Crowned Cranes: Children as Charismatic Conservationists in 1960s Japan0
:Interpreting Energy at Museums and Historic Sites0
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, 0
:Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History0
Picturing “Oil That Is People”: Energy Frontier Domesticity in Louisiana, 19440
:Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future0
The Environmental History of an American Bank0
:Naturalizing Inequality: Water, Race and Biopolitics in South Africa0
:One Shot for Gold: Developing a Modern Mine in Northern California0
New Scholarship0
:Trees and Forests of Tropical Asia: Exploring Tapovan0
:Settling the Boom: The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil0
Fukushima before Nuclear Power: Developmentalism, Substates, and the Landscape of Energy Extraction in Japan0
:Environmental History of Modern India: Land, Population, Technology and Development0
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
Dreaming of Rediscovery: Botanists, Extinction, and the Tree That Sets the Brain on Fire0
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 0
A Spiteful Campaign: Agriculture, Forests, and Administering the Environment in Imperial Singapore and Malaya0
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
“A Coquettish, Hitchhiking Bug”: The Rise and Fall of Pestina, Symbol of Invasive Pests and Agricultural Quarantine0
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The Bureau of Livestock and Motorcycles: Measuring Leisure in the Bureau of Land Management’s Off-Road Era0
Forest History and Environmental History: Kissing Cousins?0
When Conservation Turns Violent: Examining New Zealand’s Use of Toxins in Defense of the Environment0
In Memoriam: Angus L. Wright0
:Nuestro viaje a la Luna: La idea de la transformación de la naturaleza en Cuba durante la Guerra Fría0
:Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century0
Dark Trails: Animal Histories beyond the Light of Day0
The Pacific Salmon Experiment in Northern Ontario and the “Indian Problem”0
When De-extinction Really Happens: The Revival of the Floreana Giant Tortoises in the Galápagos Archipelago0
:Sharing Yerba Mate: How South America’s Most Popular Drink Defined a Region0
:Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South0
:Profit: An Environmental History0
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
Wastelanding and Racialized Reproductive Labor: “Long Dyings” in East Chicago from Urban Renewal to Superfund Remediation0
:Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean0
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Boston’s “Other River”: The Neponset Greenway, 1993–20170
Diet for a Large Planet: Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology. By Chris Otter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 411 pp. Illustrations, maps, table, glossary, notes, bi0
Living on the Edge: A Transnational Perspective on the Mexican Wolf and Its Near-Extinction0
:Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c. 300–11000
:Climate and Society in Europe: The Last Thousand Years0
Resilience to Climate Change: Lessons Learned from the Douro Wine Terroir0
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, t0
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
:From Environmental Loss to Resistance: Infrastructure and the Struggle for Justice in North America0
:Oil Palm: A Global History0
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:Killing Bugs for Business and Beauty: Canada’s Aerial War against Forest Pests, 1913–19300
“If It Happens to Them, It Happens to You”: The Highlander Folk School and the Racial Borders of Environmental Justice0
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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
Upstream, Downstream: Iron Mining in Early Modern Japan and the Uneven Spread of Environmental Protection0
:Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences: Rethinking the Specialization Thesis0
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
Forests, Frontiers, and Extractivism0
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
Of Ice and Men: The Evolving Role of the Camera in Twentieth-Century Glacier Study0
:The League of Nations and the Protection of the Environment0
:Cattle Beet Capital: Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado0
“How Could the Destructive Earthquake Devil Be Bridled?”: Disasters and Pahlavi Iran, 1925–19790
:Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America0
Environmental Practices in a Colonial Context: The Mitigation of Soot Pollution in the Shanghai International Settlement, 1863–19430
:Heartland River: A Cultural and Environmental History of the Big Sioux River Valley0
:Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia0
In Memoriam: Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie (1929–2023)0
Water, Engineers, and French Environmental Imaginaries of Ottoman Iraq, 1868–19080
:The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods0
:Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit0
The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power. By Megan Black. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018. 348 pp. Illustrations, maps, graphs, notes, and index. Cloth $39.95.0
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
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 0
The Patriot Ecology of the French Far Right0
:The Farmer’s Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm0
“Water Fit for a Christian Woman”: The Gendered and Racial Politics of Water in the Wash, 1865–19210
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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. x+201 pp. Illustrations, maps0
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