OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental History is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
In Memoriam: Angus L. Wright	19
New Scholarship	15
:On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia	11
Front Cover	7
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, gr	5
Back Matter	5
The Forced Retirement of a Hard Worker: The Rise and Fall of Eucalyptus in Bogotá	4
Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea. By David Fedman. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. xvii + 292 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and inde	4
:Making Machines of Animals: The International Livestock Exposition	4
Flax Americana: A History of the Fibre and Oil That Covered a Continent. By Joshua MacFayden. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 2018. xvii + 350 pp. Illustrations, maps, ch	4
The Ecolaboratory: Environmental Governance and Economic Development in Costa Rica. By Robert Fletcher, Brian Dowd-Uribe, and Guntra A. Aistara. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2020. ix +	3
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, map	3
Front Cover	3
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.	3
A Spiteful Campaign: Agriculture, Forests, and Administering the Environment in Imperial Singapore and Malaya	3
Theodore Roosevelt, Naturalist in the Arena. Edited by Char Miller and Clay S. Jenkinson. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. xxiv + 234 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Paper $24.	3
Frozen Over: Making Ice and Knowing Nature in Nineteenth-Century America	3
Scarcity in the Modern World: History, Politics, Society, and Sustainability, 1800-2075. Edited by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, John Brewer, Neil Fromer, and Frank Trentmann. New York: Bloomsbury	2
Back Matter	2
Note from the Editors	2
New Scholarship	2
:Dawn at Mineral King Valley: The Sierra Club, the Disney Company, and the Rise of Environmental Law	2
:The League of Nations and the Protection of the Environment	2
Note from the Editors	2
Making Sense of the History of Toxicity: How Poisonous Pasts May Have Touched Me and Everybody Else	2

New Scholarship	2
:Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c. 300–1100	2
Environmental Practices in a Colonial Context: The Mitigation of Soot Pollution in the Shanghai International Settlement, 1863–1943	2
Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It. By Tom Philpott. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. 246 pp. Graphs, notes, and index. Cloth $28.00, e-bo	2
68 Degrees: New York City’s Residential Heat and Hot Water Code as an Invisible Energy Policy	2
:The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next	2
Front Cover	2
Imagining the Green New Deal	2
Teaching as Scholarship; or, Looking at the Global History of Energy Transitions in a Classroom in San Diego	2
Note from the Editors	2
:A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon	2
Front Cover	2
“Half Man, Half Wildcat”: Itinerancy and the Myth of Frontier Manhood in the United States’ Lake Region	2
Back Matter	2
Grand Canyon to Hearst Ranch: One Woman’s Fight to Save Land in the American West. By Elizabeth B. Austin. Lanham: TwoDot Press, 2020. 432 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, and index. Cloth	2
“The Quiet Garden Where Spring Is Forever”: Toyo Suyemoto and the Japanese American Redress Movement	1
:Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future	1
:Suomen ympäristöhistoria 1700-luvulta nykyaikaan	1
Front Cover	1
Forests, Frontiers, and Extractivism	1
Witnessing the End of Life As We Know It	1
Back Matter	1
Front Matter	1
Katrina: A History, 1915–2015. By Andy Horowitz. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. xi + 281 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, and index. Cloth $35.00.	1
Introduction	1
Note from the Editors	1
Neo-Green Imperialism: The Development of Virgin Islands National Park	1
:Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis	1
:Agriculture’s Energy: The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil’s Green Revolution	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
Front Matter	1
Seed Oyster Inspection, Matsushima Bay (circa 1958)	1
Presidential Address: A Coevolutionary History of COVID-19; Culture, Biology, and Mental Health	1
:Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration	1
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,	1
Picturing “Oil That Is People”: Energy Frontier Domesticity in Louisiana, 1944	1
Note from the Editors	1
Front Matter	1
Water, Engineers, and French Environmental Imaginaries of Ottoman Iraq, 1868–1908	1
:The King’s Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire	1
Better Together? The Values, Obstacles, Opportunities, and Prospects for Collaborative Research in Environmental History	1
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. Illustra	1
Corrigendum to: Stowaway Beetles: Carl Lindroth, the Ballast Theory, and Transatlantic Science in the Cold War	1
The Grass Problem: Agrostology, Agriculture, and Environmental Transformation in the New South	1
Front Cover	1
Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies. Edited by Kirstin L. Squint, Eric Gary Anderson, Taylor Hagood, and Anthony Wilson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020. xiv + 303	1
Environmentally Mad!	1
Absorbing Waste, Displacing Labor: Family, Environment, and the Disposable Diaper in the 1970s	1
Antebellum Black Climate Science: The Medical Geography and Emancipatory Politics of James McCune Smith and Martin Delany	1
:Green Persuasion: Advertising, Voluntarism, and America’s Public Lands	1

:Before Environmental Law: A History of a Vanishing Continent	1
Back Matter	1
:Water: A Critical Introduction	1
Imperial Hunting and the Sublime: Race, Caste, and Aesthetics in the Central Himalayas	1
Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America’s Long Cold War. Edited by Andra B. Chastain and Timothy W. Lorek. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press	1
The Nature of Hope: Grassroots Organizing, Environmental Justice, and Political Change. Edited by Char Miller and Jeff Crane. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2018. viii + 353 pp. Notes a	1
Fighting for Forests: Protection and Exploitation of Kŏje Island Timber during the East Asian War of 1592–1598	1
:How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT	1
Front Cover	1
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	1
New Scholarship	1
:Captivity’s Collections: Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade	1
:Southern Rivers: Restoring America’s Freshwater Biodiversity	1
New Scholarship	1
Back Matter	1
:The Nature of Endangerment in India: Tigers, ‘Tribes’, Extermination and Conservation, 1818–2020	1
Toxic Commons: Toxic Global Inequality in the Age of the Anthropocene	1
Beyond Fortress Conservation: Postcards of Biodiversity and Justice	1
:Strong Winds and Widow Makers: Workers, Nature, and Environmental Conflict in Pacific Northwest Timber Country	1
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).	1
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, ab	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
New Scholarship	1
Front Matter	1
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).	1
When De-extinction Really Happens: The Revival of the Floreana Giant Tortoises in the Galápagos Archipelago	1
Why Do We Poison Ourselves?	1
Equal Risks: Workplace Discrimination, Toxic Exposure, and the Environmental Politics of Reproduction, 1976–91	1
:Naturalizing Inequality: Water, Race and Biopolitics in South Africa	1
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.	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
Shadow Places, Environmental Justice, and the Submergence of Pollution	1
“Water Fit for a Christian Woman”: The Gendered and Racial Politics of Water in the Wash, 1865–1921	1
“Extraordinarily Inconspicuous” Elephants: The Interspecies Constitution and Contestations of the Ivory Commodity Frontier in Nineteenth-Century South Sudan	1
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, bibliogr	1
:Interpreting Energy at Museums and Historic Sites	1
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	1
“A Great Responsibility”: Biodiversity Crisis in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	1
The Bears Ears: A Human History of America’s Most Endangered Wilderness. By David Roberts. New York: W. W. Norton, 2021. xxvi + 310 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, and index. Cloth $27.95.	1
Front Matter	1
California’s Quandary: Saving Energy at the RAND Corporation	1
The Culture of Nature in the History of Design. Edited by Kjetil Fallan. New York: Routledge, 2019. 274 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $112.00, paper $39.96, e-bo	1
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. xi	1
“For the English to See”: Animal Rescues and Greenwashing during the Brazilian Military Dictatorship’s Dam-Building Boom, 1970s–1980s	1
Picturing Time in the Anthropocene: Anselm Kiefer’s Ages of the World (2014)	1
:The First Atomic Bomb: The Trinity Site in New Mexico	1
:The Carbon Calculation: Global Climate Policy, Forests, and Transnational Governance in Brazil and Mozambique	1
“And Yet It Makes Environmental Sense”: Beachfront Management and Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina	1
:Audubon at Sea: The Coastal and Transatlantic Adventures of John James Audubon	1
Resilience to Climate Change: Lessons Learned from the Douro Wine Terroir	1
Scorched Land: The Erosion of Environmental Governance during the Bolsonaro Administration	1
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).	1
:Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History	1
When’s a Gale a Gale? Understanding Wind as an Energetic Force in Mid-Twentieth Century Britain	1
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).	1
Cutover Capitalism: Connecting Labor and Nature in Forest Extraction	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
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, bi	1
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	1
Sliding Down the Timber Chute: Photographing Erasure during the 1901 British Royal Tour of Canada	1
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,	1
New Scholarship	1
:Nuestro viaje a la Luna: La idea de la transformación de la naturaleza en Cuba durante la Guerra Fría	1
The Economy of Rarity: Animal-Catching, Cryptozoology, and the Mid-Twentieth-Century Zoo	1
Back Matter	1
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, g	1
A New Pastoral Frontier: Colonial Development, Environmental Knowledge, and the Introduction of Trypanotolerant Cattle in French Equatorial Africa, 1945–1960	1
Making Sense of Plague in the Vietnam War	1
“Bright Visions of Deliverance”: Black Women’s Space-Making through Stories	1