Sandbox:Environmental history

Wiki for environmental history comps reading lists --Please include your initials after new additions to the lists --Original categories and books/articles from Philip Van Huizen, 2008 --It is common to divide each major field into 2 parts, though other arrangements are possible --Each part of a major field normally has 40-50 books (3-4 articles = approx 1 book)--thus 80-100 books for the field as a whole

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Methodology/ Historiography

Cox, Thomas R. “A Tale of Two Journals: Fifty Years of Environmental History – And Its Predecessors.” Environmental History 13.1 (2008): 9-40.

Cronon, William. "A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative." Journal of American History. 78.4 (1992): 1347-1376.

Flores, Dan. “Place: An Argument for Bioregional History.” Environmental History Review 18(4) (1994), 1-18

McNeill, J.R. "Observations on the Nature and Culture of Environmental History." History and Theory. 42.4 (2003): 5-43.

Merchant, Carolyn. “Shades of Darkness: Race and Environmental History.” Environmental History 2003 8 (3): 380-394.

_. “Gender and Environmental History.” Journal of American History 76 (March 1990):1117-1121.

Parr, Joy “Notes for a More Sensuous History of Twentieth-Century Canada: The Timely, the Tacit, and the Material Body” Canadian Historical Review, 82(4) (2001), 720-45

Sörlin, Sverker, and Paul Warde. "The Problem of the Problem of Environmental History: A Re-Reading of the Field." Environmental History. 12.1 (2007): 107-130.

Steinberg, Theodore. "Down to Earth: Nature, Agency, and Power in History." American Historical Review. 107. (2002): 798-820.

Turkel, William J. "Every Place Is an Archive: Environmental History and the Interpretation of Physical Evidence." Rethinking History. 10.2 (2006): 259-276.

Wadland, John. "Great Rivers, Small Boats: The Environment in Canadian Historical Culture." Changing Parks: The History, Future and Cultural Context of Parks and Heritage Landscapes. Ed. John Marsh and Bruce Hodgins. Toronto: Natural Heritage Press, 1998.

White, Richard. "The Nationalization of Nature." Journal of American History. 86.3 (1999): 976-986.

_. “Environmental History: Watching a Historical Field Mature.” Pacific Historical Review 2001 70 (1): 103-111.

Worster, Donald. "History as Natural History: An Essay on Theory and Method." Pacific Historical Review. 53. (1984): 1-19.

Worster, Donald. "Appendix: Doing Environmental History." The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on Modern Environmental History. Ed. Donald Worster. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Worster, Donald. "Nature and the Disorder of History." Environmental History Review. 18. (1994): 1-15.

Wynn, Graeme, (2003) “Shall We Linger Along Ambitionles: Environmental Perspectives on British Columbia” BC Studies 142-143: 5-67.

“Wilderness” and Parks

Cronon, William. Uncommon Ground : Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996.

Glacken, Clarence. Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Berkley: University of California Press, 1967.

Harvey, Mark T. A Symbol of Wilderness: Echo Park and the American Conservation Movement. Albequerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994

MacEachern, Alan. Natural Selections: National Parks in Atlantic Canada, 1935-1970. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001.

Nash, Linda. "The Changing Experience of Nature: Historical Encounters with a Northwest River." Journal of American History. 86.4 (2000): 1600-1629.

Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967.

Price, Jennifer. Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America. New York: Basic Books, 1999.

Spence, Mark David. Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Sutter, Paul. Driven Wild: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002.

The Urban Environment

Benidickson, Jamie. The Culture of Flushing: A Social and Legal History of Sewage. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007.

Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: WW Norton, 1991.

Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future of Los Angeles. London: Verso, 1990

Gandy, Matthew. Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City Boston MIT Press, 2002.

Harris, Richard. Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.

Kelman, Ari. A River and its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Meller, European Cities,1890-1930s: History, Culture, and the Built Environment. New York: Wiley, 2001.

Melosi, Martin V. The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America From Colonial Times to the Present. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Rome, Adam. Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Tarr, Joel. The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective. Akron: University of Akron Press, 1996.

Environmental Justice and “Natural Disasters”

Bullard, Robert D. Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color. San Fancisco: Sierra Club Books, 1994.

Hurley, Andrew. Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Jacoby, Karl. Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Loo, Tina. “Disturbing the Peace: Environmental Change and the Scales of Justice on a Northern River.” Environmental History 12 (October 2007): 895-919.

Massard-Guilbaud, Genevieve. Cities and Catastrophes: Coping With Emergencies in European History. New York: P. Lang, 2002.

Novotny, Patrick. Where We Live, Work and Play: The Environmental Justice Movement and the Struggle for a New Environmentalism. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000.

Pulido, Laura. Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996.

Steinberg, Theodore. Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Science, Technology, and Nature

Bess, Michael. The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960- 2000. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Crosby, Alfred. Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity’s Unappeasable Appetite for Energy. New York and London: W.W. Norton and Co., 2006.

Dunlap, Thomas. DDT: Scientists, Citizens, and Public Policy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.

Jasanoff, Shiela. Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Josephson, Paul R. Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World. Washington: Island Press, 2002.

Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.

Merchant, Carolyn. Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

Nash, Linda. Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge. Berkley: University of California Press, 2006.

Nye, David E. American Technological Sublime. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994.

Changes in the Land: Resource Use and Development

Blackbourn, David. The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2006.

Cioc, Mark. The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815-2000. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002.

Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill & Wang, 1983.

Evenden, Matthew. Fish vs. Power: An Environmental History of the Fraser River Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Fiege, Mark. Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999.

Langston, Nancy. Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995.

Loo, Tina. “People in the Way: Modernity, Environment, and Society on the Arrow Lakes.” BC Studies 142-143 (Summer/Autumn 2004), 161-97.

McEvoy, Arthur. The Fisherman’s Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Morse, Kathryn. The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush Seattle: Washington University Press,2003.

Murton, James. Creating a Modern Countryside: Liberalism, and Land Resettlement in British Columbia. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007.

Pyne, Stephen J. Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007.

Pyne, Stephen. Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997.

Rajala, Richard. Up Coast: Forests and Industry on British Columbia’s North Coast, 1870-2005. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006.

White, Richard. The Organic Machine. New York: Hill and Wang, 1995.

White, Richard. Land Use, Environment, and Social Change: The Shaping of Island County, Washington. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1980.

Worster, Donald. The Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Animals – Domestic and Wild

Dunlap, Thomas R. Saving America’s Wildlife. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.

Isenberg, Andrew C. The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750- 1920. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Loo, Tina. States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006.

Melville, Elinor G.K. A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Ritvo, Harriet. Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987.

Taylor, Joseph E. Making Salmon: An Environmental History of Northwest Fisheries. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999.

Walker, Brett. The Lost Wolves of Japan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.

Imperialism/Colonization

Cook, Noble David. Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Crosby, Alfred. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Publishing Co., 1972.

Crosby, Alfred. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986

Cruikshank, Julie. Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005.

Davis, Diana K. Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007.

Davis, Mike . Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World. London: Verso, 2001.

Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: WW Norton, 1997.

Griffiths, Tom and Libby Robin, eds. Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies Edinburgh: Keele University Press, 1997.

Grove, Richard. Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Richards, John. The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Tucker, Richard. Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Tyrrell, Ian. True Gardens of the Gods: Californian-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860-1930. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Worster, Donald. Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity and the Growth of the American West. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985.

Environmental Politics

Gottlieb, Robert. Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1993.

Hays, Samuel P. Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890-1920. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1959.

Lekan, Thomas. Imagining the Nation in Nature: Landscape Preservation and German Identity, 1885-1945.

Milazzo, Paul Charles. Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945- 1972. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006.

Miller, Char. Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism. 2004.

Rothman, Hal. Saving the Planet: The American Response to the Environment in the Twentieth Century. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2000.

Schrepfer, Susan R. Nature’s Altars: Mountains, Gender, and American Environmentalism. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005

Zelko, Frank. “Making Greenpeace: The Development of Direct Action Environmentalism in British Columbia.” BC Studies. 142/143 (Summer 2004), 197-239.

Surveys

Brannstrom, Christian. Latin American Environmental Histories: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Institute of Latin American Studies, 2004.

Elvin, Mark. The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

Flannery, Tim: The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australian Lands and Peoples. New York: Brazilier, 1995.

Gadgil, M. and R. Guha. This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Hughes, J. Donald. An Environmental History of the World: Humankind’s Changing Role in the Community of Life. Routledge, 2002.

McCann, James. Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land: An Environmental History of Africa, 1800-1990. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1999.

McNeill, J.R. Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000.

Opie, John. Nature’s Nation: An Environmental History of the United States. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1998.

Simmons, I.G. An Environmental History of Great Britain: From 10,000 Years Ago to the Present. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001.

Steinberg, Ted. Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Wynn, Graeme. Canada and Arctic North America: An Environmental History. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2007.