Environmental History

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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, 1818–202014
:The First Atomic Bomb: The Trinity Site in New Mexico12
:Captivity’s Collections: Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade7
:Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis5
Shadow Places, Environmental Justice, and the Submergence of Pollution5
Back Matter4
:Sea Level: A History4
Front Matter4
Frozen Over: Making Ice and Knowing Nature in Nineteenth-Century America4
:The King’s Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire3
New Scholarship3
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Back Matter3
“And Yet It Makes Environmental Sense”: Beachfront Management and Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina3
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Picturing Time in the Anthropocene: Anselm Kiefer’s Ages of the World (2014)3
:American Energy Cinema2
:Making America’s Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands2
Resource or Relationship? Unpacking River Histories to Restore Wabanaki Livelihoods2
: Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara2
The Price of Adaptation: Visualizing Climate Change in the Greenland Sea, 1596–18002
Back Matter2
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
:Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World’s Most Caffeine-Rich Plant2
:Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire2
Public, Private, and More: Beyond Binaries in Framing the History of Land Conservation2
Uniquely Japan, Uniquely Alpine: The Transformation of the Kamikōchi Mountain Valley into an Alpine Landscape, 1892–19382
Entangled Extinction: Endangered Elephants and Extinct Mammoth Ivory in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries2
:Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration2
:Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt2
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
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Why Was Small Not Beautiful? Rethinking China’s Great Leap Forward through Water1
Bulk Wine from Big Water in a Dry Land1
Cicero Meets the Cretaceous1
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:Born with a Copper Spoon: A Global History of Copper, 1830–19801
:Strong Winds and Widow Makers: Workers, Nature, and Environmental Conflict in Pacific Northwest Timber Country1
Reeds, Snails, and Parasites: Schistosomiasis and Wetland Ecology in China’s Yangzi Delta from the 1870s to 19491
:Dawn at Mineral King Valley: The Sierra Club, the Disney Company, and the Rise of Environmental Law1
Front Matter1
: Underground Leviathan: Corporate Sovereignty and Mining in the Americas1
Return to the Yeokanta/River: Powhatan Women and Environmental Treaty Making in Early America1
Fighting for Forests: Protection and Exploitation of Kŏje Island Timber during the East Asian War of 1592–15981
From Temperature to Terroir: Wine Research at the University of California1
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New Scholarship1
:Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice.1
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:Mount Sacred: A Brief History of Holy Mountains since 15001
:Death Is All around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City1
:Drafting the Past1
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:People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America1
:Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty1
:Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature1
:Solar Adobe: Energy Ecology & Earthen Architecture1
:Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain1
:Agriculture’s Energy: The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil’s Green Revolution1
:Making Better Coffee: How Maya Farmers and Third Wave Tastemakers Create Value1
: The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century1
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“Extraordinarily Inconspicuous” Elephants: The Interspecies Constitution and Contestations of the Ivory Commodity Frontier in Nineteenth-Century South Sudan1
Capital Prospects: Jamaica and the Environmental History of Postwar Decolonization1
Accounting for a Fruitful Little Ice Age: Overlapping Scales of Climate and Culture in Württemberg, 1560–15901
: Liberty’s Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America1
Tenants’ Rights and Ecology1
Playing Gaia: Simulation, Science, and the Significance of Video Games for Environmental History1
:Razing Kids: Youth, Environment, and the Postwar American West1
:History and the Climate Crisis: Environmental History in the Classroom1
“A Great Responsibility”: Biodiversity Crisis in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew1
: Canadians and Their Natural Environment1
:Green Persuasion: Advertising, Voluntarism, and America’s Public Lands1
New Scholarship1
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
:Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent1
: Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land1
New Directions in Forest History, but Please No New Frontiers1
New Scholarship1
Front Cover1
Better Together? The Values, Obstacles, Opportunities, and Prospects for Collaborative Research in Environmental History1
:Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining1
Water Qualities and Usage in the Zanjas of Los Angeles, 1781–19041
: Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon1
Archives of Oil and Archaeology in Iraq0
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
Displacement in Galveston After Hurricane Ike: How Opponents of Public Housing Co-Opted the Language of Fair Housing and Environmental Justice0
“Bright Visions of Deliverance”: Black Women’s Space-Making through Stories0
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
Muddy Lines and Murky Waters: The Making of a Colonial Deltaic Forest, 1816–18280
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: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
:Sand and Fire: Exploring a Rare Pine Barrens Landscape0
Cutover Capitalism: Connecting Labor and Nature in Forest Extraction0
:Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit0
:One Shot for Gold: Developing a Modern Mine in Northern California0
Turning Water into Wine: The Curious History of Terroir in South Africa0
:Heartland River: A Cultural and Environmental History of the Big Sioux River Valley0
New Scholarship0
:Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South0
:Hush of the Land: A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness0
:Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland0
“A Spirit of Encroachment”: Trees, Cod, and the Political Ecology of Empire in the Newfoundland Fisheries, 1763–17830
People’s Park: Constructing Nature in the Mexican Metropolis0
: Kings of Oxen and Horses: Draft Animals, Buddhism, and Chinese Rural Religion0
:Settling the Boom: The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil0
The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services0
“Half Man, Half Wildcat”: Itinerancy and the Myth of Frontier Manhood in the United States’ Lake Region0
Still a Silent World: Fish Ears, Whale Politics, and the Science of Ocean Noise, 1941–19900
Note from the Editors0
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 Russian Cold: Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow0
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:Suomen ympäristöhistoria 1700-luvulta nykyaikaan0
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
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
:Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia0
: The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France0
:The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade0
:Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future0
Fukushima before Nuclear Power: Developmentalism, Substates, and the Landscape of Energy Extraction in Japan0
Neither Growth nor Degrowth but Redundancy: The Challenge of Planetary Destabilization in Japan0
: From Borderland to Burgenland: Science, Geopolitics, Identity, and the Making of a Region0
Scorched Land: The Erosion of Environmental Governance during the Bolsonaro Administration0
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
:Oil Palm: A Global History0
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:Nuestro viaje a la Luna: La idea de la transformación de la naturaleza en Cuba durante la Guerra Fría0
:The Farmer’s Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm0
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Note from the Editors0
In Memoriam: Angus L. Wright0
:Naturalizing Inequality: Water, Race and Biopolitics in South Africa0
:The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism0
The Bureau of Livestock and Motorcycles: Measuring Leisure in the Bureau of Land Management’s Off-Road Era0
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
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Boston’s “Other River”: The Neponset Greenway, 1993–20170
: Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How US Military Engineers Conquered Extreme Environments0
Forest History and Environmental History: Kissing Cousins?0
New Scholarship0
Of Ice and Men: The Evolving Role of the Camera in Twentieth-Century Glacier Study0
:Spearheading Environmental Change: The Legacy of Indiana Congressman Floyd J. Fithian0
Agriculture of the Uprooted: The Assyrian Settlement on the Khabur and the Agrarian Solution to Refugees0
: Strength from the Waters: A History of Indigenous Mobilization in Northwest Mexico0
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
Man-Made Weather: The Promise, Peril, and Uncertainty of Cloud Seeding in Postwar America0
The “Eco-Phony” World’s Fair: Expo ’74 and the Bind of Being Friends of the Earth0
:Understanding Imperiled Earth: How Archaeology and Human History Inform a Sustainable Future0
New Scholarship0
The Patriot Ecology of the French Far Right0
:The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution0
Illiberal Environmentalism? The Case of Contemporary Hungary0
The Growth Imperative in Soviet Socialism0
: Imperial Weather: Meteorology, Science, and the Environment in Colonial Malaya0
Note from the Editors0
:Killing Bugs for Business and Beauty: Canada’s Aerial War against Forest Pests, 1913–19300
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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
:Bellwether Histories: Animals, Humans, and US Environments in Crisis0
Dreaming of Rediscovery: Botanists, Extinction, and the Tree That Sets the Brain on Fire0
Cities and the Mobility of Nature: Landslide Hazards in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh0
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:From Label to Table: Regulating Food in American in the Information Age0
“A Coquettish, Hitchhiking Bug”: The Rise and Fall of Pestina, Symbol of Invasive Pests and Agricultural Quarantine0
:Who Gets to Go Back-to-the-Land? Gender and Race in U.S. Self-Sufficiency Popular Culture0
:Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia0
:Squirrel Nation: Reds, Greys and the Meaning of Home0
:On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia0
:Interpreting Energy at Museums and Historic Sites0
“How Could the Destructive Earthquake Devil Be Bridled?”: Disasters and Pahlavi Iran, 1925–19790
Charting New Directions in Conservation History: A Niche for Activism in Private Land Conservation Among Environmental Historians?0
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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
:An Ecological History of Modern China0
The Pacific Salmon Experiment in Northern Ontario and the “Indian Problem”0
:Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences: Rethinking the Specialization Thesis0
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Watershed Protection as Dispossession in Japanese-Occupied Taiwan0
:Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History0
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
Environmental History of South Asia in the Time of Hindutva0
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
: The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier0
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68 Degrees: New York City’s Residential Heat and Hot Water Code as an Invisible Energy Policy0
:The Carbon Calculation: Global Climate Policy, Forests, and Transnational Governance in Brazil and Mozambique0
Drawing Barbed Wire: The Tule Lake Scrapbook of 19420
: Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age0
:Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century0
“Green Is the Color of the Luxuriant Vegetation of Our Motherland”: Marcus Garvey, Temporality, and Wilderness as a Repeating Phase0
In Memoriam: Linda Nash, 1962–20210
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
A Spiteful Campaign: Agriculture, Forests, and Administering the Environment in Imperial Singapore and Malaya0
Land as Text: Reading the Land0
:Sewer of Progress: Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River0
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:Environmental History of Modern India: Land, Population, Technology and Development0
Note from the Editors0
:Sharing Yerba Mate: How South America’s Most Popular Drink Defined a Region0
“The Quiet Garden Where Spring Is Forever”: Toyo Suyemoto and the Japanese American Redress Movement0
Targeting Reform: Superfund, Industri-Plex, and Pollution Remediation in the United States0
Note from the Editors0
:Forging Arizona: A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West0
Forum: Global Wine at the Intersection of Climate and Culture0
: So Great Was the Slaughter: Market Hunters, Sportsmen, and Wildlife Conservation in Arkansas0
:Contested Sustainability: The Political Ecology of Conservation and Development in Tanzania0
:Trees and Forests of Tropical Asia: Exploring Tapovan0
“Brave New Home”: Gendering Alternative Technology in the 1970s0
:The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods0
Note from the Editors0
: Plant Collectors in Angola: Botany, Exploration, and History in South-Tropical Africa0
From Self-Determination to Privatization (and Back Again): Water and Post–Black Power Politics in Newark, New Jersey0
Making Plastics Count: Citizen Science Beach Cleanups and the Ocean Plastic Pollution Crisis (1980s–2020s)0
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:Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability0
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
:Nuked: Echoes of the Hiroshima Bomb in St. Louis0
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In Memoriam: Mark Elvin (1938–2023)0
:Climate and Society in Europe: The Last Thousand Years0
“If It Happens to Them, It Happens to You”: The Highlander Folk School and the Racial Borders of Environmental Justice0
New Scholarship0
The Environment in Deep Water: Environmentalists, Deep-Sea Mining, and the Law of the Sea (circa 1970–1982)0
Resilience to Climate Change: Lessons Learned from the Douro Wine Terroir0
:Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America0
: The Forest That Fire Made: An Introduction to the Longleaf Pine Forest0
: All Mapped Out: How Maps Shape Us0
Water, Engineers, and French Environmental Imaginaries of Ottoman Iraq, 1868–19080
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
:Profit: An Environmental History0
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Environmental Practices in a Colonial Context: The Mitigation of Soot Pollution in the Shanghai International Settlement, 1863–19430
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:Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c. 300–11000
Subterranean Archives0
Note from the Editors0
“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
In the Energy Library0
:The League of Nations and the Protection of the Environment0
:Cattle Beet Capital: Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado0
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
Introduction: Fair Housing and Environmental Justice0
Forests, Frontiers, and Extractivism0
Degrowth and Environmental History: Toward Critical Encounters0
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