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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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, 1818–202015
:The First Atomic Bomb: The Trinity Site in New Mexico15
:Captivity’s Collections: Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade9
:Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis6
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:Sea Level: A History5
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:The King’s Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire4
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Shadow Places, Environmental Justice, and the Submergence of Pollution4
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Picturing Time in the Anthropocene: Anselm Kiefer’s Ages of the World (2014)4
:Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt3
Public, Private, and More: Beyond Binaries in Framing the History of Land Conservation3
: Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara3
:Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration3
Resource or Relationship? Unpacking River Histories to Restore Wabanaki Livelihoods3
:Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire3
“And Yet It Makes Environmental Sense”: Beachfront Management and Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina3
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:Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World’s Most Caffeine-Rich Plant2
Uniquely Japan, Uniquely Alpine: The Transformation of the Kamikōchi Mountain Valley into an Alpine Landscape, 1892–19382
New Scholarship2
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Accounting for a Fruitful Little Ice Age: Overlapping Scales of Climate and Culture in Württemberg, 1560–15902
:American Energy Cinema2
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
Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles2
:Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining2
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Entangled Extinction: Endangered Elephants and Extinct Mammoth Ivory in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries2
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
:Making America’s Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands2
Capital Prospects: Jamaica and the Environmental History of Postwar Decolonization2
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: The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century1
Why Was Small Not Beautiful? Rethinking China’s Great Leap Forward through Water1
New Scholarship1
:People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America1
:Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent1
Return to the Yeokanta/River: Powhatan Women and Environmental Treaty Making in Early America1
:History and the Climate Crisis: Environmental History in the Classroom1
:Dawn at Mineral King Valley: The Sierra Club, the Disney Company, and the Rise of Environmental Law1
:Death Is All around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City1
Hunting, Environmental Change, and the Defaunation of Wildlife in Baringo, Kenya (1840–1977)1
Cicero Meets the Cretaceous1
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: Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon1
:Strong Winds and Widow Makers: Workers, Nature, and Environmental Conflict in Pacific Northwest Timber Country1
“Extraordinarily Inconspicuous” Elephants: The Interspecies Constitution and Contestations of the Ivory Commodity Frontier in Nineteenth-Century South Sudan1
: Canadians and Their Natural Environment1
: Underground Leviathan: Corporate Sovereignty and Mining in the Americas1
The Nature of Kingship: The Weather-World in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam1
:Green Persuasion: Advertising, Voluntarism, and America’s Public Lands1
:Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain1
:Making Better Coffee: How Maya Farmers and Third Wave Tastemakers Create Value1
From Temperature to Terroir: Wine Research at the University of California1
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Tenants’ Rights and Ecology1
:Razing Kids: Youth, Environment, and the Postwar American West1
Playing Gaia: Simulation, Science, and the Significance of Video Games for Environmental History1
“A Great Responsibility”: Biodiversity Crisis in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew1
The US Military and the Pacific Environment: The Making of an American Lake1
:Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty1
New Scholarship1
:Agriculture’s Energy: The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil’s Green Revolution1
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:Born with a Copper Spoon: A Global History of Copper, 1830–19801
: Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land1
:Drafting the Past1
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New Directions in Forest History, but Please No New Frontiers1
:Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice.1
: Liberty’s Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America1
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Reeds, Snails, and Parasites: Schistosomiasis and Wetland Ecology in China’s Yangzi Delta from the 1870s to 19491
:Solar Adobe: Energy Ecology & Earthen Architecture1
:Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature1
AI Forum: Introduction1
Better Together? The Values, Obstacles, Opportunities, and Prospects for Collaborative Research in Environmental History1
:Mount Sacred: A Brief History of Holy Mountains since 15001
In Memoriam: Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie (1929–2023)0
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:Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America0
: Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age0
:Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century0
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
: The Forest That Fire Made: An Introduction to the Longleaf Pine Forest0
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
New Scholarship0
: Imperial Weather: Meteorology, Science, and the Environment in Colonial Malaya0
Man-Made Weather: The Promise, Peril, and Uncertainty of Cloud Seeding in Postwar America0
In the Energy Library0
The Environment in Deep Water: Environmentalists, Deep-Sea Mining, and the Law of the Sea (circa 1970–1982)0
Land as Text: Reading the Land0
New Scholarship0
:One Shot for Gold: Developing a Modern Mine in Northern California0
“Green Is the Color of the Luxuriant Vegetation of Our Motherland”: Marcus Garvey, Temporality, and Wilderness as a Repeating Phase0
Conservation Is Not Enough: Rethinking Relationships with Water in the Arid Southwest0
“Bright Visions of Deliverance”: Black Women’s Space-Making through Stories0
:Hush of the Land: A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness0
Archives of Oil and Archaeology in Iraq0
:Squirrel Nation: Reds, Greys and the Meaning of Home0
The Pacific Salmon Experiment in Northern Ontario and the “Indian Problem”0
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: So Great Was the Slaughter: Market Hunters, Sportsmen, and Wildlife Conservation in Arkansas0
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Making Plastics Count: Citizen Science Beach Cleanups and the Ocean Plastic Pollution Crisis (1980s–2020s)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
: The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier0
Environmental History of South Asia in the Time of Hindutva0
:Contested Sustainability: The Political Ecology of Conservation and Development in Tanzania0
The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services0
:Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future0
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: All Mapped Out: How Maps Shape Us0
The Patriot Ecology of the French Far Right0
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
:Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland0
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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
: Kings of Oxen and Horses: Draft Animals, Buddhism, and Chinese Rural Religion0
:Cattle Beet Capital: Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado0
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:Suomen ympäristöhistoria 1700-luvulta nykyaikaan0
Agriculture of the Uprooted: The Assyrian Settlement on the Khabur and the Agrarian Solution to Refugees0
Note from the Editors0
Cutover Capitalism: Connecting Labor and Nature in Forest Extraction0
:Bellwether Histories: Animals, Humans, and US Environments in Crisis0
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, g0
Dreaming of Rediscovery: Botanists, Extinction, and the Tree That Sets the Brain on Fire0
In Memoriam: Angus L. Wright0
:An Ecological History of Modern China0
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The “Eco-Phony” World’s Fair: Expo ’74 and the Bind of Being Friends of the Earth0
In Memoriam: Mark Elvin (1938–2023)0
Energy’s History: Toward a Global Canon0
:Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia0
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
New Scholarship0
Recovering Climate’s History with Artificial Intelligence0
:Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences: Rethinking the Specialization Thesis0
:Nuestro viaje a la Luna: La idea de la transformación de la naturaleza en Cuba durante la Guerra Fría0
:Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History0
:From Environmental Loss to Resistance: Infrastructure and the Struggle for Justice in North America0
Upstream, Downstream: Iron Mining in Early Modern Japan and the Uneven Spread of Environmental Protection0
:The Russian Cold: Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow0
Forest History and Environmental History: Kissing Cousins?0
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From Self-Determination to Privatization (and Back Again): Water and Post–Black Power Politics in Newark, New Jersey0
Introduction: Fair Housing and Environmental Justice0
Highways of Water : Tracing Indigenous Women’s Mobility in Fur Trade Documents Using Artificial Intelligence0
:The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods0
:The Carbon Calculation: Global Climate Policy, Forests, and Transnational Governance in Brazil and Mozambique0
:The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution0
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:Forging Arizona: A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West0
:Oil Palm: A Global History0
:Environmental History of Modern India: Land, Population, Technology and Development0
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“Brave New Home”: Gendering Alternative Technology in the 1970s0
68 Degrees: New York City’s Residential Heat and Hot Water Code as an Invisible Energy Policy0
:Sewer of Progress: Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River0
:Sand and Fire: Exploring a Rare Pine Barrens Landscape0
Targeting Reform: Superfund, Industri-Plex, and Pollution Remediation in the United States0
: The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France0
:Profit: An Environmental History0
Muddy Lines and Murky Waters: The Making of a Colonial Deltaic Forest, 1816–18280
:Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia0
:Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South0
:Interpreting Energy at Museums and Historic Sites0
Cities and the Mobility of Nature: Landslide Hazards in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh0
:Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability0
:Settling the Boom: The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil0
: Plant Collectors in Angola: Botany, Exploration, and History in South-Tropical Africa0
: Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How US Military Engineers Conquered Extreme Environments0
“Half Man, Half Wildcat”: Itinerancy and the Myth of Frontier Manhood in the United States’ Lake Region0
:From Label to Table: Regulating Food in American in the Information Age0
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: From Borderland to Burgenland: Science, Geopolitics, Identity, and the Making of a Region0
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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“If It Happens to Them, It Happens to You”: The Highlander Folk School and the Racial Borders of Environmental Justice0
Environmental Practices in a Colonial Context: The Mitigation of Soot Pollution in the Shanghai International Settlement, 1863–19430
:Climate and Society in Europe: The Last Thousand Years0
Degrowth and Environmental History: Toward Critical Encounters0
Charting New Directions in Conservation History: A Niche for Activism in Private Land Conservation Among Environmental Historians?0
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:The League of Nations and the Protection of the Environment0
:Who Gets to Go Back-to-the-Land? Gender and Race in U.S. Self-Sufficiency Popular Culture0
:The Farmer’s Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm0
Fukushima before Nuclear Power: Developmentalism, Substates, and the Landscape of Energy Extraction in Japan0
“How Could the Destructive Earthquake Devil Be Bridled?”: Disasters and Pahlavi Iran, 1925–19790
The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution0
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
:Naturalizing Inequality: Water, Race and Biopolitics in South Africa0
Neither Growth nor Degrowth but Redundancy: The Challenge of Planetary Destabilization in Japan0
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Forests, Frontiers, and Extractivism0
:Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c. 300–11000
The Great AI Acceleration: Problems of Scale in Artificial Intelligence and the Anthropocene0
: Strength from the Waters: A History of Indigenous Mobilization in Northwest Mexico0
:Understanding Imperiled Earth: How Archaeology and Human History Inform a Sustainable Future0
:Heartland River: A Cultural and Environmental History of the Big Sioux River Valley0
“A Good Tree Is a Fast-Growing Tree”: South Korea’s Reforestation in the 1950s and the Making of Cold War Ecology in East Asia0
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Boston’s “Other River”: The Neponset Greenway, 1993–20170
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:Sharing Yerba Mate: How South America’s Most Popular Drink Defined a Region0
:Trees and Forests of Tropical Asia: Exploring Tapovan0
Drawing Barbed Wire: The Tule Lake Scrapbook of 19420
Turning Water into Wine: The Curious History of Terroir in South Africa0
Watershed Protection as Dispossession in Japanese-Occupied Taiwan0
New Scholarship0
Forum: Global Wine at the Intersection of Climate and Culture0
Machines Writing Histories Using Insect Algorithms: Toward an Age of Environmental Historiography for Artificial Intelligence0
Illiberal Environmentalism? The Case of Contemporary Hungary0
Water, Engineers, and French Environmental Imaginaries of Ottoman Iraq, 1868–19080
“The Quiet Garden Where Spring Is Forever”: Toyo Suyemoto and the Japanese American Redress Movement0
:Spearheading Environmental Change: The Legacy of Indiana Congressman Floyd J. Fithian0
:Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit0
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Scorched Land: The Erosion of Environmental Governance during the Bolsonaro Administration0
Subterranean Archives0
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Note from the Editors0
Resilience to Climate Change: Lessons Learned from the Douro Wine Terroir0
:Nuked: Echoes of the Hiroshima Bomb in St. Louis0
Still a Silent World: Fish Ears, Whale Politics, and the Science of Ocean Noise, 1941–19900
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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
The Abyss Stares Back: Encounters with Deep Sea Life0
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Maraña: War and Disease in the Jungles of Colombia0
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People’s Park: Constructing Nature in the Mexican Metropolis0
:California Catastrophes: The Natural Disaster History of the Golden State0
:Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean0
Note from the Editors0
:Killing Bugs for Business and Beauty: Canada’s Aerial War against Forest Pests, 1913–19300
The Growth Imperative in Soviet Socialism0
:Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge: The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermediaries, and the Politics of Truth0
“A Coquettish, Hitchhiking Bug”: The Rise and Fall of Pestina, Symbol of Invasive Pests and Agricultural Quarantine0
The Bureau of Livestock and Motorcycles: Measuring Leisure in the Bureau of Land Management’s Off-Road Era0
:The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism0
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