Bibliography of American Environmental History

Compiled by Mark Stoll

Index

General

Black, Megan. The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018.

Boyden, Stephen. Biohistory: The Interplay Between Human Society and the Biosphere. Parkridge, N.J.; Parthenon Publishing Group, 1992.

Connelly, Matthew James. Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.

Eisenberg, Evan. Ecology of Eden. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

Fiege, Mark. The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012.

Freund, Daniel. American Sunshine: Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Light. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Hersey, Mark D, and Theodore Steinberg, eds. A Field on Fire: The Future of Environmental History. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2019.

Hoff, Derek S. The State and the Stork: The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Isenberg, Andrew C., ed. The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

LeCain, Timothy J. The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Linnér, Björn-Ola. The Return of Malthus: Environmentalism and Post-War Population-Resource Crises. Isle of Harris: White Horse Press, 2003.

Mayhew, Robert J. Malthus: The Life and Legacies of an Untimely Prophet. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014.

Miller, Char, ed. The Atlas of U.S. and Canadian Environmental History. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Miller, Daegan. This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Montrie, Chad. Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.

Reuss, Martin, and Stephen H. Cutcliffe, eds. The Illusory Boundary: Environment and Technology in History. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010.

Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela. The Nature of Childhood: An Environmental History of Growing Up in America Since 1865. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2014.

Ritvo, Harriet. Noble Cows and Hybrid Zebras: Essays on Animals and History. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010.

Russell, Edmund. Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Schwoch, James. Wired into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018.

Whitney, Gordon G. From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain: A History of Environmental Change in Temperate North America from 1500 to the Present. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Worster, Donald. Shrinking the Earth: The Rise and Decline of American Abundance. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Human Impact on the Environment

Anderson, Jennifer L. Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.

Brantz, Dorothee, ed. Beastly Natures: Animals, Humans, and the Study of History. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010.

Kierner, Cynthia A. Inventing Disaster: The Culture of Calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

Pyne, Stephen J. Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.

Pyne, Stephen J. Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2015.

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

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

Steinberg, Theodore. Slide Mountain, or, The Folly of Owning Nature. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

INDIANS

Akins, Damon B., and William J. Bauer. We Are the Land: A History of Native California. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021.

Anderson, Kat, ed. Before the Wilderness: Environmental Management by Native Californians. Menlo Park: Ballena Press, 1993.

Anderson, M. Kat. Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Binnema, Theodore. Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.

Burnham, Philip. Indian Country, God's Country: Native Americans and the National Parks. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2000.

Catton, Theodore. Inhabited Wilderness: Indians, Eskimos and National Parks in Alaska. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997

Catton, Theodore R. American Indians and National Forests. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016.

Chamberlain, Kathleen P. Under Sacred Ground: A History of Navajo Oil, 1922-1982. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000.

Edwards, Richard W., IV. Indigenous Life Around the Great Lakes: War, Climate, and Culture. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020.

Fixico, Donald L. The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century: American Capitalism and Tribal National Resources. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1998.

Harkin, Michael Eugene, and David Rich Lewis, eds. Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.

Hausdoerffer, John. Catlin's Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics of Nature. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009.

Hughes, J. Donald. American Indian Ecology. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1983.

Keller, Robert H., and Michael F. Turek. American Indians & National Parks. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998.

Krech, Shepard. The Ecological Indian: Myth and History. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999.

Lentz, David L., ed. Imperfect Balance: Landscape Transformations in the Precolumbian Americas. New York: Columbian University Press, 2000.

Mann, Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. New York: Knopf, 2005.

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

Shurts, John. Indian Reserved Water Rights: The Winters Doctrine in Its Social and Legal Context, 1880s-1930s. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.

Weisiger, Marsha L. Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009.

West, Elliott. The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.

White, Richard. The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.

COLONIAL

Anderson, Virginia DeJohn. Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

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

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

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

Donahue, Brian. The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

Irving, Sarah. Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008.

Lewis, Andrew J. A Democracy of Facts: Natural History in the Early Republic. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Morgan, M. J. Land of Big Rivers: French and Indian Illinois, 1699-1778. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.

Parsons, Christopher M. A Not-So-New World: Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.

Rice, James D. Nature & History in the Potomac Country: From Hunter-Gatherers to the Age of Jefferson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

Roberts, Strother E. Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy: Transforming Nature in Early New England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.

Wickman, Thomas M. Snowshoe Country: An Environmental and Cultural History of Winter in the Early American Northeast. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

White, Sam. A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe's Encounter with North America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017.

WATER

Anfinson, John O. The River We Have Wrought: A History of the Upper Mississippi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

Archer, Kenna Lang. Unruly Waters: A Social and Environmental History of the Brazos River. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015.

Brooks, Karl Boyd. Public Power, Private Dams: The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006.

Carrels, Peter. Uphill against Water: The Great Dakota Water War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

DeBuys, William. Salt Dreams: Land & Water in Low-Down California. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.

Dunn, John M. Drying Up: The Fresh Water Crisis in Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2019.

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

Gumprecht, Blake. The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Hall, G. Emlen. High and Dry: The Texas-New Mexico Struggle for the Pecos River. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002.

Harrison, Christian S. All the Water the Law Allows: Las Vegas and Colorado River Politics. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021.

Henshaw, Robert E., ed. Environmental History of the Hudson River: Human Uses That Changed the Ecology, Ecology That Changed Human Uses. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011.

Hoornbeek, John A. Water Pollution Policies and the American States: Runaway Bureaucracies or Congressional Control? Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011.

Kanazawa, Mark. Golden Rules: The Origins of California Water Law in the Gold Rush. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Kerstetter, Todd M. Flood on the Tracks: Living, Dying, and the Nature of Disaster in the Elkhorn River Basin. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2018.

Kupel, Douglas E. Fuel for Growth: Water and Arizona's Urban Environment. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003.

Littlefield, Douglas R. Conflict on the Rio Grande: Water and the Law, 1879-1939. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008.

MacDonnell, Lawrence J. From Reclamation to Sustainability: Water, Agriculture, and the Environment in the American West. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1999.

McCool, Daniel. River Republic: The Fall and Rise of America's Rivers. New York Columbia University Press, 2012.

Melosi, Martin V. Precious Commodity: Providing Water for America's Cities. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011.

Miller, Char, ed. Fluid Arguments: Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000.

Morris, Christopher. The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Opie, John, Char Miller, and Kenna Lang Archer. Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land. 3rd ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018.

Orsi, Jared. Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Pearson, Byron E. Still the Wild River Runs: Congress, the Sierra Club, and the Fight to Save Grand Canyon. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002.

Pearson, Byron E. Saving Grand Canyon: Dams, Deals, and a Noble Myth. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2019.

Pisani, Donald J. From the Family Farm to Agribusiness: The Irrigation Crusade in California and the West, 1850-1931. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

Pisani, Donald J. To Reclaim a Divided West: Water, Law, and Public Policy, 1848-1902. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992.

Pisani, Donald J. Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Pisani, Donald J. Water, Land, and Law in the West: The Limits of Public Policy, 1850-1920. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 1996.

Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. New York: Viking Penguin, Inc., 1986.

Schneiders, Robert Kelley. Big Sky Rivers: The Yellowstone and Upper Missouri. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003.

Schneiders, Robert Kelley. Unruly River: Two Centuries of Change Along the Missouri. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999.

Schorr, David. The Colorado Doctrine: Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.

Schuyler, David. Embattled River: The Hudson and Modern American Environmentalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018.

Sneddon, Christopher. Concrete Revolution: Large Dams, Cold War Geopolitics, and the US Bureau of Reclamation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Soll, David. Empire of Water: An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013.

Steinberg, Theodore. Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Stine, Jeffrey K. Mixing the Waters: Environment, Politics, and the Building of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 1993.

Sturgeon, Stephen C. The Politics of Western Water: The Congressional Career of Wayne Aspinall. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002.

Summitt, April R. Contested Waters: An Environmental History of the Colorado River. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2013.

Teisch, Jessica B. Engineering Nature: Water, Development, & the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

Vileisis, Ann. Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America's Wetlands. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1997.

Ward, Evan R. Border Oasis: Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940-1975. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003.

Welky, David. The Thousand-Year Flood: The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.

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

Whiteley, John M., Helen M. Ingram, and Richard Warren Perry. Water, Place, and Equity. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008.

Willoughby, Lynn. Flowing through Time: A History of the Lower Chattahoochee River. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999.

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

Zeisler-Vralsted, Dorothy. Rivers, Memory, and Nation-Building: A History of the Volga and Mississippi Rivers. New York: Berghahn, 2015.

FISH AND WILDLIFE

Arnold, David F. The Fishermen’s Frontier: People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008.

Bogue, Margaret Beattie. Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783–1933. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000.

Brown, Jen Corrinne. Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015.

Chiang, Connie Y. Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008.

Colby, Jason M. Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean’s Greatest Predator. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Coleman, Jon T. Vicious: Wolves and Men in America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

Crawford, Sharika D. The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

Czech, Brian, and Paul R. Krausman. The Endangered Species Act: History, Conservation Biology and Public Policy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Doughty, Robin W. Wildlife and Man in Texas: Environmental Change and Conservation. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1983.

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

Flores, Dan L. Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History. New York: Basic Books, 2016.

Hanes, Samuel P. The Aquatic Frontier: Oysters and Aquaculture in the Progressive Era. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019.

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

Jones, Karen R. Wolf Mountains: A History of Wolves Along the Great Divide. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2002.

Keiner, Christine. The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay Since 1880. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010.

Kelly, Tara Kathleen. The Hunter Elite: Manly Sport, Hunting Narratives, and American Conservation, 1880–1925. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2018.

Langston, Nancy. Where Land & Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003.

Lichatowich, Jim. Salmon Without Rivers: A History of the Pacific Salmon Crisis. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1999.

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

Nielsen, John. Condor: To the Brink and Back—the Life and Times of One Giant Bird. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.

Petersen, Shannon. Acting for Endangered Species: The Statutory Ark. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002.

Quintero Toro, Camilo. Birds of Empire, Birds of Nation: A History of Science, Economy, and Conservation in United States-Colombia Relations. Bogotá, Colombia: Universidad de los Andes, 2012.

Ravalli, Richard. Sea Otters: A History. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018.

Reardon, Erik. Managing the River Commons: Fishing and New England's Rural Economy. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021.

Sawyer, R. K. Texas Market Hunting: Stories of Waterfowl, Game Laws, and Outlaws. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2013.

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

Van Nuys, Frank, Varmints and Victims: Predator Control in the American West. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015.

Wadewitz, Lissa K. The Nature of Borders: Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012.

Walters, Mark Jerome. Seeking the Sacred Raven: Politics and Extinction on a Hawaiian Island. Washington: Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2006.

AGRICULTURE AND FOOD
(See also WATER)

Anderson, J. L. Industrializing the Corn Belt: Agriculture, Technology, and Environment, 1945–1972. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2009.

Anderson, J. L. Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2019.

Beeman, Randal S., and James A. Pritchard. A Green and Permanent Land: Ecology and Agriculture in the Twentieth Century. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001.

Brown, Dona. Back to the Land: The Enduring Dream of Self-Sufficiency in Modern America. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011.

Case, Andrew N. The Organic Profit: Rodale and the Making of Marketplace Environmentalism. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018.

Cohen, Benjamin R. Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, and Society in the American Countryside. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

Conkin, Paul Keith. A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture Since 1929. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008.

Duffin, Andrew P. Plowed Under: Agriculture & Environment in the Palouse. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007.

Elmore, Bartow J. Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future. New York: Norton, 2021.

Evans, Sterling. Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880–1950. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007.

Fitzgerald, Deborah. Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

Fullilove, Courtney. The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Hurt, R. Douglas. The Dust Bowl: An Agricultural and Social History. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1981.

Johnson, Nick. Grass Roots: A History of Cannabis in the American West. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2017.

Kopp, Peter Adam. Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016.

MacLennan, Carol A. Sovereign Sugar: Industry and Environment in Hawai’i. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 2014.

McGrath, Maria. Food for Dissent: Natural Foods and the Consumer Counterculture since the 1960s. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019.

O'Sullivan, Robin. American Organic: A Cultural History of Farming, Gardening, Eating, and Shopping. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015.

Pauly, Philip J. Fruits and Plains: The Horticultural Transformation of America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007.

Romero, Adam. Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022.

Sackman, Douglas. Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Smith-Howard, Kendra. Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History Since 1900. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Specht, Joshua. Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-To-Table History of How Beef Changed America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.

Stoll, Steven. Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Hill & Wang, 2002.

Vail, David D. Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America's Grasslands Since 1945. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2018.

Vileisis, Ann. Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes From and Why We Need to Get It Back. Washington: Island Press, 2008.

Weeks, Michael. Cattle Beet Capital: Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022.

URBAN

Abbott, Carl. Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.

Bamberg, Angelique. Chatham Village: Pittsburgh's Garden City. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011.

Booker, Matthew Morse. Down by the Bay: San Francisco's History between the Tides. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.

Bramwell, Lincoln. Wilderburbs: Communities on Nature's Edge. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014.

Brechin, Gray. Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Bullard, Robert D., Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres, eds. Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2000.

Burnstein, Daniel Eli. Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006.

Buzbee, William W. Fighting Westway: Environmental Law, Citizen Activism, and the Regulatory War That Transformed New York City. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014.

Campanella, Richard. Draining New Orleans: The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2023.

Colten, Craig E. An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.

Colton, Craig E., ed. Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs: Centuries of Change. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.

Davis, Mike. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1998.

Deverell, William, and Greg Hise, eds. Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.

Dieterich-Ward, Allen. Beyond Rust: Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.

Dreyfus, Philip J. Our Better Nature: Environment and the Making of San Francisco. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008.

Elkind, Sarah S. How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy: Business, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

Falck, Zachary J. S. Weeds: An Environmental History of Metropolitan America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.

Fisher, Colin. Urban Green: Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

Greene, Ann Norton. Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.

Gutfreund, Owen D. Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

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

Isenberg, Andrew C., ed. The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006.

Karvonen, Andrew. Politics of Urban Runoff: Nature, Technology, and the Sustainable City. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011.

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

Klingle, Matthew W. Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

Light, Jennifer S. The Nature of Cities: Ecological Visions and the American Urban Professions, 1920-1960. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

Logan, Michael F. Desert Cities: The Environmental History of Phoenix and Tucson. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006.

Longhurst, James Lewis. Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015.

McNeur, Catherine. Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014.

McShane, Clay, and Joel A. Tarr. The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Melosi, Martin V. Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.

Melosi, Martin V. Fresh Kills: A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.

Melosi, Martin V. Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment: 1880-1980. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1981.

Melosi, Martin V. Precious Commodity: Providing Water for America's Cities. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011.

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

Melosi, Martin V., and Joseph A. Pratt, eds. Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, June 2007.

Miller, Char, ed. On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.

Miller, Char, ed. Cities and Nature in the American West. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2010.

Mitman, Gregg. Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

Muller, Edward K, and Joel A Tarr, eds. Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern: Environment, Landscape, Transportation, Energy & Planning. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019.

Pearson, Chris. Dogopolis: How Dogs and Humans Made Modern New York, London, and Paris. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2021.

Platt, Harold L. Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Platt, Harold L. Sinking Chicago: Climate Change and the Remaking of a Flood-Prone Environment. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 2018.

Rector, Josiah. Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit. Justice, Power, and Politics. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022.

Robichaud, Andrew A. Animal City: The Domestication of America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019.

Ryan, Mary P. Taking the Land to Make the City: A Bicoastal History of North America. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019.

Sanders, Jeffrey C. Seattle and the Roots of Urban Sustainability: Inventing Ecotopia. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.

Schuyler, David. The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.

Šimková, Pavla. Urban Archipelago: An Environmental History of the Boston Harbor Islands. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021.

Soll, David. Empire of Water: An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013.

Stephenson, B. R. Visions of Eden: Environmentalism, Urban Planning, and City Building in St. Petersburg, Florida, 1900-1995. Columbus, 1997.

Stradling, David. Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers and Air Quality in America, 1881-1951. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Stradling, David, and Richard Stradling. Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.

Tarr, Joel A., ed. Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004.

Taylor, Dorceta E. The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s: Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009.

VanderMeer, Philip R. Desert Visions and the Making of Phoenix, 1860-2009. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010.

Wells, Christopher W. Car Country: An Environmental History. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012.

WAR AND ENVIRONMENT

Biggs, David A. Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010.

Biggs, David. Footprints of War: Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018.

Brady, Lisa M. War Upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes During the American Civil War. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012.

Browning, Judkin, and Timothy Silver. An Environmental History of the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

Cashin, Joan E. War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Drake, Brian Allen, ed. The Blue, the Gray, and the Green: Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015.

Gowdy-Wygant, Cecilia. Cultivating Victory: The Women's Land Army and the Victory Garden Movement. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013.

Hay, Amy Marie. The Defoliation of America: Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2022.

Kirchhof, Astrid Mignon, and John Robert McNeill, eds. Nature and the Iron Curtain: Environmental Policy and Social Movements in Communist and Capitalist Countries, 1945–1990. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019.

Martini, Edwin A., ed. Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015.

Mauldin, Erin Stewart. Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Meier, Kathryn Shively. Nature's Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.

Mitchell, Jon. Poisoning the Pacific: The US Military's Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.

Noe, Kenneth. The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate and the American Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020.

Robertson, Thomas, Richard P. Tucker, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, and Peter R. Mansoor, eds. Nature at War: American Environments and World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Smith, Susan L. Toxic Exposures: Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2017.

Stith, Matthew M. Extreme Civil War: Guerilla Warfare, Environment, and Race on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2016.

Zierler, David. The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam, and the Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think About the Environment. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011.

THE NORTHEAST AND MIDWEST

Andersen, Tom. This Fine Piece of Water: An Environmental History of Long Island Sound. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

Bennett, Dean B. The Wilderness from Chamberlain Farm: A Story of Hope for the American Wild. Covelo, CA: Island Press, 2001.

Blackford, Mansel G. Columbus, Ohio: Two Centuries of Business and Environmental Change. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016.

Borrelli, Peter. Stellwagen: The Making and Unmaking of a National Marine Sanctuary. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2009.

Campanella, Thomas J. Republic of Shade: New England and the American Elm. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

Carroll, Peter N. Puritanism and the Wilderness: The Intellectual Significance of the New England Frontier, 1629-1700. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.

Cumbler, John T. Cape Cod: An Environmental History of a Fragile Ecosystem. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2014.

Cumbler, John T. Reasonable Use: The People, the Environment, and the State, New England, 1790-1930. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Donahue, Brian. The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

Foster, David R., and John D. Aber, eds. Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1,000 Years of Change in New England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

Hall, Clarence Jefferson. A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York's North Country. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020.

Hanes, Samuel P. The Aquatic Frontier: Oysters and Aquaculture in the Progressive Era. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019.

Heasley, Lynne. A Thousand Pieces of Paradise: Landscape and Property in the Kickapoo Valley. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.

Hutchins, Zachary McLeod. Inventing Eden: Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Johnson, Christopher. This Grand & Magnificent Place: The Wilderness Heritage of the White Mountains. Durham, N.H.: University of New Hampshire Press, 2006.

Judd, Richard William. Second Nature: An Environmental History of New England. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2014.

Maher, Neil M., ed. New Jersey's Environment: Past, Present, and Future. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Manuel, Jeffrey T. Taconite Dreams: The Struggle to Sustain Mining on Minnesota's Iron Range, 1915-2000. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.

Maynard, W. Barksdale. Walden Pond: A History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

McKenzie, Matthew G. Clearing the Coastline: The Nineteenth-Century Ecological & Cultural Transformation of Cape Cod. Hanover: University Press of New England, 2010.

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

Pappas, Andrea. Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740–1770. London: Lund Humphries, 2023.

Pastore, Christopher L. Between Land and Sea: The Atlantic Coast and the Transformation of New England. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014.

Rawson, Michael. Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010.

Reardon, Erik. Managing the River Commons: Fishing and New England's Rural Economy. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021.

Ryden, Kent C. Landscape with Figures: Nature & Culture in New England. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001.

Sayen, Jamie. Children of the Northern Forest: Wild New England's History from Glaciers to Global Warming. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023.

Šimková, Pavla. Urban Archipelago: An Environmental History of the Boston Harbor Islands. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021.

Stroud, Ellen. Nature Next Door: Cities and Trees in the American Northeast. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012.

Thomas M. Wickman. Snowshoe Country: An Environmental and Cultural History of Winter in the Early American Northeast. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

THE SOUTH

Boer, Tycho de. Nature, Business, and Community in North Carolina's Green Swamp. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008.

Boyd, William. The Slain Wood: Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American South. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.

Brown, Margaret Lynn. The Wild East: A Biography of the Great Smoky Mountains. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000.

Burns, Shirley Stewart. Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia Communities, 1970-2004. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2007.

Carter, Mason C., Robert C. Kellison, and R. Scott Wallinger. Forestry in the U.S. South: A History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2016.

Cater, Casey P. Regenerating Dixie: Electric Energy and the Modern South. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019.

Cowdrey, Albert E. This Land, This South: An Environmental History. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1983.

Curtin, Philip D., Grace S. Brush, and George W. Fisher, eds. Discovering the Chesapeake: The History of an Ecosystem. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Davis, Donald Edward. Where There Are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000.

Davis, Jack E. An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009.

Davis, Jack E. The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea. New York: Liveright, 2017.

Davis, Jack E., and Raymond O. Arsenault, eds. Paradise Lost? The Environmental History of Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005.

Dunn, John M. Drying Up: The Fresh Water Crisis in Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2019.

Earle, Thomas Blake, and D. Andrew Johnson, eds. Atlantic Environments and the American South. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2020.

Earley, Lawrence S. Looking for Longleaf: The Fall and Rise of an American Forest. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Ermus, Cindy, ed. Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South: Two Centuries of Catastrophe, Risk, and Resilience. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018.

Gibson, Abraham. Feral Animals in the American South: An Evolutionary History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Gregg, Sara M. Managing the Mountains: Land Use Planning, the New Deal, and the Creation of a Federal Landscape in Appalachia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.

Hall, Randal L. Mountains on the Market: Industry, the Environment, and the South. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012.

Hofstra, Warren R. The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Hollander, Gail M. Raising Cane in the 'Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Horowitz, Andy. Katrina: A History, 1915–2015. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020.

Howell, Benita J., ed. Culture, Environment, and Conservation in the Appalachian South. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

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

Kirby, Jack Temple. Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Kushlan, James A. Seeking the American Tropics: South Florida's Early Naturalists. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020.

Lewis, Ronald L. Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Manganiello, Christopher J. Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

Marshall, Suzanne. "Lord, We're Just Trying to Save Your Water": Environmental Activism and Dissent in the Appalachian South. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.

Maysilles, Duncan. Ducktown Smoke: The Fight Over One of the South's Greatest Environmental Disasters. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

McCally, David. The Everglades: An Environmental History. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999.

McIver, Stuart. Death in the Everglades: The Murder of Guy Bradley, America's First Martyr to Environmentalism. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003.

McNeill, John Robert. Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Miller, James J. An Environmental History of Northeast Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998.

Mittlefehldt, Sarah. Tangled Roots: The Appalachian Trail and American Environmental Politics. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013.

Montrie, Chad. To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Navakas, Michele Currie. Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.

Nelson, David J. How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism: The Civilian Conservation Corps and State Parks. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2019.

Nelson, Megan Kate. Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005.

Newfont, Kathryn. Blue Ridge Commons: Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012.

Outland, Robert B., III. Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004.

Poole, Leslie Kemp. Saving Florida: Women's Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015.

Rice, James D. Nature & History in the Potomac Country: From Hunter-Gatherers to the Age of Jefferson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

Saikku, Mikko. This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Floodplain. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005.

Silkenat, David. Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Silver, Timothy. A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in the South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Silver, Timothy. Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Slavishak, Edward. Proving Ground: Expertise and Appalachian Landscapes. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.

Stewart, Mart A. “What Nature Suffers to Groe”: Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680–1920. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.

Stine, Jeffrey K. Mixing the Waters: Environment, Politics, and the Building of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 1993.

Sutter, Paul. Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015.

Swanson, Drew A. A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014.

Swanson, Drew A. Remaking Wormsloe Plantation: The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012.

Way, Albert G. Conserving Southern Longleaf: Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of Ecological Land Management. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011.

Willoughby, Urmi Engineer. Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2017.

THE WEST AND GREAT PLAINS

Abbott, Carl. Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.

Amundson, Michael A. Yellowcake Towns: Uranium Mining Communities in the American West. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002.

Andrews, Thomas G. Coyote Valley: Deep History in the High Rockies. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015.

Beesley, David. Crow's Range: An Environmental History of the Sierra Nevada. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2004.

Bessire, Lucas. Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.

Binnema, Theodore. Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.

Booker, Matthew Morse. Down by the Bay: San Francisco's History between the Tides. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.

Brinkley, Douglas. The Quiet World: Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879–1960. New York: Harper, 2011.

Bunting, Robert. The Pacific Raincoast: Environment and Culture in an American Eden, 1778–1900. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997.

Chiang, Connie Y. Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarceration. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Coates, Peter A. The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy: Technology, Conservation, and the Frontier. Cranbury: Lehigh University Press, 1991.

Courtwright, Julie. Prairie Fire: A Great Plains History. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2011.

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

Cronon, William, George Miles, and Jay Gitlin, eds. Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1992.

Cunfer, Geoff. On The Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment. College Station: Texas A & M Press, 2005.

Cunfer, Geoff, and W. A Waiser, eds. Bison and People on the North American Great Plains: A Deep Environmental History. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2016.

Curtis, Kent A. Gambling on Ore: The Nature of Metal Mining in the United States, 1860-1910. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2013.

DeBuys, William. Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985.

DeBuys, William Eno, and Alex Harris. River of Traps: A Village Life. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1990.

Duffin, Andrew P. Plowed Under: Agriculture & Environment in the Palouse. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007.

Dunaway, Finis. Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

Edgington, Ryan H. Range Wars: The Environmental Contest for White Sands Missile Range. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014.

Farmer, Jared. On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2008.

Flores, Dan. American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2016.

Flores, Dan. Caprock Canyonlands: Journeys into the Heart of the Southern Plains. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990.

Flores, Dan. Horizontal Yellow: Nature and History in the Near Southwest. [Essays.] Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.

Flores, Dan. The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. [Essays.] Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.

Fradkin, Philip L. Wildest Alaska: Journeys of Great Peril in Lituya Bay. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Francaviglia, Richard V. The Cast Iron Forest: A Natural and Cultural History of the North American Cross Timbers. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000.

Frehner, Brian, and Kathleen A. Brosnan, eds. The Greater Plains: Rethinking a Region's Environmental Histories. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021.

Harrison, Christian S. All the Water the Law Allows: Las Vegas and Colorado River Politics. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021.

Haycox, Stephen W. Battleground Alaska: Fighting Federal Power in America's Last Wilderness. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2016.

Haycox, Stephen. Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics, and Environment in Alaska. Culture and the Environment in the Pacific West Series. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2002.

Hultgren, John. Border Walls Gone Green: Nature and Anti-Immigrant Politics in America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.

Hurt, R. Douglas. The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011.

Kates, James. Planning a Wilderness: Regenerating the Great Lakes Cutover Region. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.

Klingle, Matthew W. Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

Koch, Natalie. Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia. London: Verso, 2022.

Langston, Nancy. Where Land and Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003.

LeCain, Timothy J. Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines That Wired America and Scarred the Planet. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2009.

Leech, Brian James. The City That Ate Itself: Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2018.

Lockwood, Jeffrey Alan. Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect That Shaped the American Frontier. New York: Basic Books, 2004.

Logan, Michael F. Desert Cities: The Environmental History of Phoenix and Tucson. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006.

Malin, James. History and Ecology: Studies of the Grassland. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

Mergen, Bernard. At Pyramid Lake. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2014.

Merrill, Karen R. Public Lands and Political Meaning: Ranchers, the Government, and the Property Between Them. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Miller, Char, ed. On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001.

Montoya, Maria E. Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840-1900. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Moon, David. The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–30s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

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

Robbins, William G. Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940-2000. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004.

Robbins, William G., and Katrine Barber. Nature's Northwest: The North Pacific Slope in the Twentieth Century. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011.

Robinson, Michael J. Predatory Bureaucracy: The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2005.

Rogers, Jedediah S., and Matthew C Godfrey, eds. The Earth Will Appear as the Garden of Eden: Essays on Mormon Environmental History. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2019.

Ross, Ken. Environmental Conflict in Alaska. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2000.

Sanders, Jeffrey C. Razing Kids: Youth, Environment, and the Postwar American West. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Sayre, Nathan F. Ranching, Endangered Species, and Urbanization in the Southwest: Species of Capital. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002.

Sherow, James E., ed. A Sense of the American West: An Anthology of Environmental History. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press,1998.

Skillen, James. The Nation's Largest Landlord: The Bureau of Land Management in the American West. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009.

Smith, Sherry L., ed. The Future of the Southern Plains. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.

Snow, Bradley D. Living with Lead: An Environmental History of Idaho's Coeur D'Alenes, 1885–2011. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017.

Solnit, Rebecca. Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1994.

Strom, Claire. Profiting from the Plains: The Great Northern Railway and Corporate Development of the American West. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003.

Sweeney, Kevin Z. Prelude to the Dust Bowl: Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016.

Vetter, Jeremy. Field Life: Science in the American West during the Railroad Era. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press,  2016.

Webb, Walter Prescott. The Great Plains. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931.

Weeks, Michael. Cattle Beet Capital: Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022.

West, Elliott. The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.

West, Elliott. The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000.

Wilshire, Howard Gordon, Jane E. Nielson, and Richard W. Hazlett. The American West at Risk: Science, Myths, and Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

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

Worster, Donald. Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Wyckoff, William. Creating Colorado: The Making of a Western American Landscape, 1860-1940. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

CALIFORNIA

Alagona, Peter S. After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.

Andrés, Benny J., Jr. Power and Control in the Imperial Valley: Nature, Agribusiness, and Workers on the California Borderland, 1900-1940. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2015.

Brooks, Shelley Alden. Big Sur: The Making of a Prized California Landscape. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017.

Devienne, Elsa. La Ruée Vers Le Sable: Une Histoire Environnementale des Plages de Los Angeles au XXe Siècle. Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2020.

Dyl, Joanna Leslie. Seismic City: An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017.

Farmer, Jared. Trees in Paradise: A California History. New York: Norton, 2013.

Igler, David. Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Isenberg, Andrew C. Mining California: An Ecological History. New York: Hill & Wang, 2005.

Kanazawa, Mark. Golden Rules: The Origins of California Water Law in the Gold Rush. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Pincetl, Stephanie S. Transforming California: A Political History of Land Use and Development. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Sackman, Douglas Cazaux. Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Stoll, Steven. The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Tsu, Cecilia M. Garden of the World: Asian Immigrants and the Making of Agriculture in California's Santa Clara Valley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

OCEANS AND CLIMATE

Bolster, W. Jeffrey. The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.

Cushman, Gregory T. Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Demuth, Bathsheba. Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Arctic. New York: Norton, 2019.

Dorsey, Kurkpatrick. Whales and Nations: Environmental Diplomacy on the High Seas. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013.

Howe, Joshua P. Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014.

Igler, David. The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Mitchell, Jon. Poisoning the Pacific: The US Military's Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.

Oreskes, Naomi. Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know About the Ocean. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Schwartz, Stuart B. Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.

Smith, Jason W. To Master the Boundless Sea: The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

Weart, Spencer R. The Discovery of Global Warming. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.

White, Sam. A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe's Encounter with North America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017.

 

Biography

Note: Biographies marked with an asterisk (*) are appropriate for the HIST 3327, HIST 4323, or HIST 4398 book review assignments. The biographies not so marked are not appropriate to those assignments.

Anderson, Larry. Benton MacKaye, Creator of the Appalachian Trail. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Austin, Mary Hunter. Earth Horizon: Autobiography. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991.

*Brinkley, Douglas. The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America. New York: HarperCollins, 2009.

*Brinkley, Douglas. Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America. New York: Harper, 2016.

Christofferson, Bill. The Man from Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Gaylord Nelson. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.

*Cohen, Michael P. The Pathless Way: John Muir and American Wilderness. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984.

Coleman, Kate. The Secret Wars of Judi Bari: A Car Bomb, the Fight for the Redwoods, and the End of Earth First! San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2005.

Croker, Robert A. Stephen Forbes and the Rise of American Ecology. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001.

Davis, Frederick Rowe. The Man Who Saved Sea Turtles: Archie Carr and the Origins of Conservation Biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Dehler, Gregory J. The Most Defiant Devil: William Temple Hornaday and His Controversial Crusade to Save American Wildlife. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013.

Drummond, Alexander. Enos Mills: Citizen of Nature. Nivot: University Press of Colorado, 1995.

Eaton, Heather, ed. Intellectual Journey of Thomas Berry: Imagining the Earth Community. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2015.

Egan, Michael. Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival: The Remaking of American Environmentalism. Cambridge: MIT, 2007.

Fein, A. Frederick Law Olmsted and the American Environmental Tradition. New York, 1972.

*Flader, Susan. Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude Toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1974.

Flippen, J. Brooks. Conservative Conservationist: Russell E. Train and the Emergence of American Environmentalism. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006.

Hamilton, Alice. Exploring the Dangerous Trades: The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D. Boston: Little, Brown, 1943.

Hart, John. Legacy: Portraits of 50 Bay Area Environmental Elders. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Harvey, Mark. Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.

Hersey, Mark D. My Work Is That of Conservation: An Environmental Biography of George Washington Carver. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011.

*Hausdoerffer, John. Catlin's Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics of Nature. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009.

*Holmes, Steven J. The Young John Muir: An Environmental Biography. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.

Knight, Richard L., and Suzanne Riedel, eds. Aldo Leopold and the Ecological Conscience. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Lear, Linda J. Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. New York: Henry Holt, 1997.

Lendt, David L. Ding: The Life of Jay Norwood Darling. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1979.

Lowenthal, David. George Perkins Marsh, Prophet of Conservation. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000.

Margolis, John D. Joseph Wood Krutch: A Writer's Life. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1980.

Mark, Stephen R. Preserving the Living Past: John C. Merriam's Legacy in the State and National Parks. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

McGeary, M. Nelson. Gifford Pinchot, Forester-Politician. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960.

McPhee, John A. Encounters with the Archdruid. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971.

Meine, Curt. Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.

Merchant, Carolyn. Spare the Birds! George Bird Grinnell and the First Audubon Society. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.

*Miller, Char. Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2001.

Miller, Sally M., and Daryl Morrison, eds. John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.

North, Gerald R. The Rise of Climate Science: A Memoir. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2020.

Muir, John. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913.

Muir, John. John Muir's Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa: Unpublished Journals and Selected Correspondence. Michael P. Branch, ed. Covelo, CA: Island Press, 2001.

Mullholland, Catherine. William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Newton, Julianne Lutz. Aldo Leopold's Odyssey: Rediscovering the Author of A Sand County Almanac. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2006.

Nobles, Gregory H. John James Audubon: The Nature of the American Woodsman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.

Peters, Jason, ed. Wendell Berry: Life and Work. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007.

Pinchot, Gifford. Breaking New Ground. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, [1998] 1947.

Pinchot, Gifford. The Conservation Diaries of Gifford Pinchot. Harold K. Steen, ed. Covelo, CA: Island Press, 2001.

Powell, John Wesley. Seeing Things Whole: The Essential John Wesley Powell. William DeBuys, ed. Covelo, CA: Island Press, 2001.

Renehan, Edward. John Burroughs: An American Naturalist. Post Mills, Vt.: Chelsea Green, 1992.

Richardson, Robert D. Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Roper, Laura Wood. FLO: A Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973.

Rybczynsky, Witold. A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Scribner, 1999.

*Schulte, Steven C. Wayne Aspinall and the Shaping of the American West. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002.

Schuyler, David. Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815-1852. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Sideris, Lisa H., and Kathleen Dean Moore, eds. Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008.

*Slaughter, Thomas P. The Natures of John and William Bartram. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.

Smith, Thomas G. Green Republican: John Saylor and the Preservation of America's Wilderness. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006.

Sowards, Adam M. The Environmental Justice: William O. Douglas and American Conservation. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2009.

Spiro, Jonathan Peter. Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant. Burlington: University of Vermont Press, 2009.

Steen, Harold K. The Conservation Diaries of Gifford Pinchot. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2001.

Tackach, James. Lincoln and the Natural Environment. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2019.

Thomas, Jack Ward, and Harold K. Steen. Jack Ward Thomas: The Journals of a Forest Service Chief. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 2004.

Train, Russell E. Politics, Pollution, and Pandas: An Environmental Memoir. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2003.

Turner, Frederick W. Rediscovering America: John Muir in his time and ours. New York: Viking, 1985.

Wayburn, Edgar. Your Land and Mine: The Evolution of a Conservationist. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2004.

Williams, Dennis. God's Wilds: John Muir's Vision of Nature. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002.

Wolfe, Linnie Marsh. Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir. New York: Knopf, 1945.

Worster, Donald. A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Wyss, Bob. The Man Who Built the Sierra Club: A Life of David Brower. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.

Zaslowsky, Dyan. Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009.

 

History of Ecology

Acot, Pascal. Histoire de L'écologie. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1994. (Earlier edition published 1988.)

Beidleman, Richard G. California's Frontier Naturalists. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.

Croker, Robert A. Stephen Forbes and the Rise of American Ecology. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001.

De Bont, Raf. Stations in the Field: A History of Place-Based Animal Research, 1870-1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Drouin, Jean-Marc. L'Ecologie et Son Histoire: Réinventer la Nature. Paris: Flammarion, 1993. (Earlier edition published as Réinventer la Nature: L'Ecologie et Son Histoire, 1991.)

Hagen, Joel B. An Entangled Bank: The Origins of Ecosystem Ecology. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992.

Kingsland, Sharon E. The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Kohler, Robert E. All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850-1950. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.

Lookingbill, Brad D. Dust Bowl, USA: Depression America and the Ecological Imagination, 1929-1941. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001.

Martin, Laura J. Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2022.

McIntosh, Robert P. The Background of Ecology: Concept and Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Mitman, Gregg. The State of Nature: Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900-1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Tobey, Ronald C. Saving the Prairies: The Life Cycle of the Founding School of American Plant Ecology, 1895–1955. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.

Vetter, Jeremy. Field Life: Science in the American West during the Railroad Era. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016.

Way, Albert G. Conserving Southern Longleaf: Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of Ecological Land Management. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011.

Worster, Donald. Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

 

History of Ideas about Nature

Armitage, Kevin C. The Nature Study Movement: The Forgotten Popularizer of America's Conservation Ethic. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009.

Bak, Hans, and Walter W. Hölbling, eds. “Natures Nation” Revisited: American Concepts of Nature from Wonder to Ecological Crisis. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2003.

Benson, Etienne. Surroundings: A History of Environments and Environmentalisms. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.

Bousé, Derek. Wildlife Films. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.

Barrow, Mark V. Nature's Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Bryson, Michael A. Visions of the Land Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002.

Carroll, Peter N. Puritanism and the Wilderness: The Intellectual Significance of the New England Frontier, 1629–1700. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.

Coates, Peter. American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species: Strangers on the Land. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Cronon, William, ed. Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995.

Dann, Kevin. Across the Great Border Fault: The Naturalist Myth in America. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000.

De Steiguer, Joseph Edward. The Origins of Modern Environmental Thought. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006.

Dugatkin, Lee Alan. Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose: Natural History in Early America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Evernden, Lorne Leslie Neil. The Social Creation of Nature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

Farber, Paul Lawrence. Finding Order in Nature: The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E. O. Wilson. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Farmer, Jared. On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.

Fowler, Robert Booth. The Greening of Protestant Thought. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Glacken, Clarence J. Traces on the Rhodian Shore. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.

Hallock, Thomas. From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749-1826. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2003.

Hanson, Elizabeth. Animal Attractions: Nature on Display in American Zoos. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Hutchins, Zachary McLeod. Inventing Eden: Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Huth, Hans. Nature and the American: Three Centuries of Changing Attitudes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957.

Irmscher, Christoph. The Poetics of Natural History: From John Bartram to William James. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999.

Johnson, Michael L. Hunger for the Wild: America's Obsession with the Untamed West. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007.

Judd, Richard William. The Untilled Garden: Natural History and the Spirit of Conservation in America, 1740-1840. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Judd, Richard William. Finding Thoreau: The Meaning of Nature in the Making of an Environmental Icon. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2018.

Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory. Teaching Children Science: Hands-on Nature Study in North America, 1890-1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Lane, Belden C. Landscapes of the Sacred: Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality. Expanded ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Lane, Belden C. Ravished by Beauty: The Surprising Legacy of Reformed Spirituality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Lane, Belden C. The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Lewis, Michael L., ed. American Wilderness: A New History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Maher, Neil M. Apollo in the Age of Aquarius. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017.

Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.

McGinnis, Michael V., ed. Bioregionalism. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Merchant, Carolyn. Radical Ecology: the search for a livable world. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Murphy, Priscilla Coit. What a Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005.

Nash, Roderick. The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.

Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. 5th ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014.

Newman, Lance. Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Nicolson, Marjorie Hope. Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1959.

Oelschlaeger, Max. The Idea of Wilderness from Prehistory to the Age of Ecology. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

Parrish, Susan Scott. American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Pogue, Neall W. The Nature of the Religious Right: The Struggle between Conservative Evangelicals and the Environmental Movement. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2022.

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

Pyne, Stephen J. How the Canyon became Grand: A Short History. New York: Viking, 1998.

Schmitt, Peter J. Back to Nature: The Arcadian Myth in Urban America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.

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

Shaffer, Marguerite S., and Phoebe S. K. Young, eds. Rendering Nature: Animals, Bodies, Places, Politics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.

Simpson, John Warfield. Visions of Paradise: Glimpses of Our Landscape's Legacy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Slavishak, Edward. Proving Ground: Expertise and Appalachian Landscapes. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.

Smith, Henry Nash. Virgin Land. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950.

Smith, Kimberly K. African American Environmental Thought. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007.

Smith, Michael L. Pacific Visions: California Scientists and the Environment, 1850-1915. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987.

Stoll, Mark. Protestantism, Capitalism, and Nature in America. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1997.

Stoll, Mark R. Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summers, Gregory. Consuming Nature: Environmentalism in the Fox River Valley, 1850-1950. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006.

Thomson, Keith. Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

Valencius, Conevery Bolton. The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land. New York: Basic Books, 2002.

Walls, Laura Dassow. The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander Von Humboldt and the Shaping of America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Worster, Donald. The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Wulf, Andrea. Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation. New York: Knopf, 2011.

Zuber, Devin P. A Language of Things: Emanuel Swedenborg and the American Environmental Imagination. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019.

 

Literature, the Arts, and Nature

Bousé, Derek. Wildlife Films. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.

Brooks, Paul. Speaking for Nature: How Literary Naturalists from Henry Thoreau to Rachel Carson Have Shaped America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.

Buell, Lawrence. The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Cassuto, David N. Dripping Dry: Literature, Politics, and Water in the Desert Southwest. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.

Chris, Cynthia. Watching Wildlife. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.

Dunaway, Finis. Natural Visions The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Hochman, Jhan. Green Cultural Studies: Nature in Film, Novel, and Theory. Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1998.

Iannini, Christopher P. Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

Irmscher, Christoph. The Poetics of Natural History: From John Bartram to William James. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1999.

Ingram, David. Green Screen: Environmentalism and Hollywood Cinema. Devon: University of Exeter Press, 2000.

Kaganovsky, Lilya, Scott Mackenzie, Anna Westerstahl Stenport, eds. Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019.

Kinsey, Joni L. Thomas Moran's West: Chromolithography, High Art, and Popular Taste. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006.

Kollin, Susan. Nature's State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Lutts, Ralph H. The Nature Fakers: Wildlife, Science and Sentiment. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001.

McKusick, James C. Green Writing: Romanticism and Ecology. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Miller, Angela. The Empire of the Eye: Landscape Representation and American Cultural Politics, 1825-1875. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.

Mitman, Gregg. Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Nisbet, James. Ecologies, Environments and Energy Systems in Art of the 1960s and 1970s. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 2014.

Novak, Barbara. Nature and Culture: American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.

Neuzil, Mark. The Environment and the Press: From Adventure Writing to Advocacy. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2008.

Pappas, Andrea. Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740–1770. London: Lund Humphries, 2023.

 

Conservation and Environmentalism

Allin, Craig W. The Politics of Wilderness Preservation. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982.

Andrews, Richard N. Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves: A History of American Environmental Policy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

Brooks, Karl Boyd. Before Earth Day: The Origins of American Environmental Law, 1945-1970. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009.

Cairns, Kathleen A. At Home in the World: California Women and the Postwar Environmental Movement. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021.

Clements, Kendrick A. Hoover, Conservation, and Consumerism: Engineering the Good Life. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000.

Cannon, Jonathan Z. Environment in the Balance: The Green Movement and the Supreme Court. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2015.

Clayton, John. Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America's Public Lands. New York: Pegasus Books, 2019.

Coodley, Gregg, and David Sarasohn. The Green Years, 1964–1976: When Democrats and Republicans United to Repair the Earth. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2021.

Cramer, Phillip F. Deep Environmental Politics: the role of radical environmentalism in crafting American environmental policy. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998.

Davis, Janet M. The Gospel of Kindness: Animal Welfare and the Making of Modern America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Dean, Adam Wesley. An Agrarian Republic: Farming, Antislavery Politics, and Nature Parks in the Civil War Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

Dorsey, Kurkpatrick. Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy: U. S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998.

Dowie, Mark. Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996.

Drake, Brian Allen. Loving Nature, Fearing the State: Environmentalism and Antigovernment Politics Before Reagan. Seattle: University of Washington press, 2013.

Dunaway, Finis. Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Dunaway, Finis. Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Ellingson, Stephen. To Care for Creation: The Emergence of the Religious Environmental Movement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Ferguson, Cody. This Is Our Land: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Late Twentieth Century. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2015.

Flippen, J. Brooks. Nixon and the Environment. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000.

Fox, Stephen. The American Conservation Movement: John Muir and His Legacy. Boston: Little, Brown, 1981.

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

Graham, Otis L., Jr., ed. Environmental Politics and Policy, 1960s-1990s. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.

Graham, Otis L. Presidents and the American Environment. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015.

Hays, Samuel P. Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955-1985. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

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

Hays, Samuel P. A History of Environmental Politics since 1945. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.

Helvarg, David. The War Against the Greens: The "Wise-Use" Movement, the New Right and Anti-Environmental Violence. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1994.

Henderson, Henry L., and David B. Woolner, eds. FDR and the Environment. New York: Palgrave, 2005.

Hoffman, Andrew J. From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001 [1997].

Hou, Shen. The City Natural: Garden and Forest Magazine and the Rise of American Environmentalism. Pittsburg: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 2013.

Jones, Holway R.  John Muir and the Sierra Club: The Battle for Yosemite. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1965.

Jacoby, Karl. Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Johnson, Benjamin Heber. Escaping the Dark, Gray City: Fear and Hope in Progressive-Era Conservation. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.

Judd, Richard W. Common Lands, Common People: The Origins of Conservation in Northern New England. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Judd, Richard W., and Christopher S. Beach. Natural States: The Environmental Imagination in Maine, Oregon, and the Nation. Washington, D.C.: RFF Press, 2003.

Karan, Pradyumna P., and Unryu Suganuma, eds. Local Environmental Movements: A Comparative Study of the United States and Japan. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008.

Kirk, Andrew G. Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007.

Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory. Teaching Children Science: Hands-on Nature Study in North America, 1890-1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Lazarus, Richard J. The Making of Environmental Law. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Lifset, Robert. Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism. Pittsburg, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.

Lindstrom, Matthew J., Zachary A. Smith, and Lynton K. Caldwell. The National Environmental Policy Act: Judicial Misconstruction, Legislative Indifference, & Executive Neglect. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002.

Longhurst, James. Citizen Environmentalist. Hanover: University Press of New England, 2010.

Maher, Neil M. Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Mann, Charles C. The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World. New York: Knopf, 2018.

Minteer, Ben A. The Landscape of Reform: Civic Pragmatism and Environmental Thought in America. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006.

Mintz, Joel A. Enforcement at the EPA: High Stakes and Hard Choices. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.

Montrie, Chad. The Myth of Silent Spring: Rethinking the Origins of American Environmentalism. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018.

Murchison, Kenneth M. The Snail Darter Case: TVA versus the Endangered Species Act. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007.

Neuzil, Mark, and William Kovarik. Mass Media & Environmental Conflict: America's Green Crusades. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1996.

Oreskes, Naomi, and Erik M. Conway. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2010.

Owen, A. L. Riesch. Conservation under F.D.R. New York: Praeger, 1983.

Paris, Leslie. Children's Nature: The Rise of the American Summer Camp. New York: New York University Press, 2008.

Phillips, Sarah T. This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Powell, Miles A. Vanishing America: Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of Conservation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016.

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

Pyne, Stephen J. Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910. New York: Viking, 2001.

Reiger, John F. American Sportsmen and the Origins of Conservation. 3rd ed., rev. & expanded. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2001 [1975].

Righter, Robert W. The Battle over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Robertson, Thomas. The Malthusian Moment: Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2012.

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

Rome, Adam. The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-in Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation. New York: Hill and Wang, 2013.

Ross, Ken. Pioneering Conservation in Alaska. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2006.

Rothman, Hal. The Greening of a Nation?: Environmentalism in the United States since 1945. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1998.

Rubin, Charles T. The Green Crusade: Rethinking the Roots of Environmentalism. New York: Free Press, 1994.

Sabin, Paul. The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble Over Earth's Future. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.

Scarce, Rik. Eco-Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement. Chicago: Noble Press, 1990.

Scheffer, Victor B. The Shaping of Environmentalism in America. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991.

Schuyler, David. Embattled River: The Hudson and Modern American Environmentalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018.

Selcer, Perrin. The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment: How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.

Sellers, Christopher C. Crabgrass Crucible: Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

Selmi, Daniel P. Dawn at Mineral King Valley: The Sierra Club, the Disney Company, and the Rise of Environmental Law. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Shabecoff, Philip. A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.

Short, C. Brandt. Ronald Reagan and the Public Lands: America's Conservation Debate, 1979- 1984. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1989.

Sideris, Lisa H., and Kathleen Dean Moore, eds. Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008.

Smith, Diane. Yellowstone and the Smithsonian: Centers of Wildlife Conservation. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2017.

Smith, Kimberly K. The Conservation Constitution: The Conservation Movement and Constitutional Change, 1870–1930. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019.

Speece, Darren Frederick. Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016.

Spiro, Jonathan Peter. Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant. Burlington: University of Vermont Press, 2009.

Stoll, Mark. Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

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

Taylor, Dorceta E. The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.

Turchetti, Simone. Greening the Alliance: The Diplomacy of NATO's Science and Environmental Initiatives. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Turner, James Morton. The Promise of Wilderness: American Environmental Politics Since 1964. Seattle: University of Washington, 2012.

Turner, James Morton, and Andrew C. Isenberg. The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018.

Tyrrell, Ian R. Crisis of the Wasteful Nation: Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Uekötter, Frank, ed. Exploring Apocalyptica: Coming to Terms with Environmental Alarmism. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018.

Warren, Louis S. The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

Woodhouse, Keith Makoto. The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.

Wyant, William K. Westward in Eden: The Public Lands and the Conservation Movement. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.

 

Women and the Environment

Edwards, Thomas S., and Elizabeth A. De Wolfe, eds. Such News of the Land: U.S. Women Nature Writers. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2001.

Gaard, Greta Claire. Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998.

Gowdy-Wygant, Cecilia. Cultivating Victory: The Women's Land Army and the Victory Garden Movement. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013.

Kaufman, Polly Welts. National Parks and the Woman's Voice: A History. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.

Merchant, Carolyn. The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution. New York: Harper & Row, 1980.

Merchant, Carolyn. Earthcare: Women and the Environment. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Norwood, Vera. Made from This Earth: American Women and Nature. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

Proctor, Tammy M. Scouting for Girls: A Century of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2009.

Riley, Glenda. Women and Nature: Saving the "Wild" West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

Rimby, Susan. Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012.

Scharff, Virginia J., ed. Seeing Nature Through Gender. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003.

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

Sideris, Lisa H., and Kathleen Dean Moore, eds. Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008.

Unger, Nancy C. Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

 

Race and Environmental Justice

Allen, Barbara L. Uneasy Alchemy: Citizens and Experts in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor Disputes. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003.

Bohme, Susanna Rankin. Toxic Injustice: A Transnational History of Exposure and Struggle. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015.

Bullard, Robert D. Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality. Boulder: Westview Press, 1990.

Busch, Andrew M. City in a Garden: Environmental Transformations and Racial Justice in Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

Bush, Gregory Wallace. White Sand, Black Beach: Civil Rights, Public Space, and Miami's Virginia Key. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2016.

Chiang, Connie Y. Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarceration. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Cole, Luke W., and Sheila R. Foster. From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

Dunaway, Finis. Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

Giltner, Scott E. Hunting and Fishing in the New South: Black Labor and White Leisure After the Civil War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

Gioielli, Robert R. Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis: Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2014.

Glave, Dianne D., and Mark Stoll, eds. To Love the Wind and the Rain: African Americans and Environmental History. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006.

Harrison, Jill Lindsey. Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011.

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

Kahrl, Andrew W. The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.

Lerner, Steve. Diamond: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005.

McGurty, Eileen Maura. Transforming Environmentalism: Warren County, PCBs, and the Origins of Environmental Justice. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2007.

O'Brien, William E. Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2012.

Outland, Robert B., III. Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004.

Rector, Josiah. Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022.

Silver, Timothy. A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in the South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Smith, Kimberly K. African American Environmental Thought. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007.

Spears, Ellen Griffith. Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

Stewart, Mart A. "What Nature Suffers to Groe": life, labor, and landscape on the Georgia coast, 1680-1920. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.

Sze, Julie. Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007.

Washington, Sylvia Hood. Packing Them In: An Archaeology of Environmental Racism in Chicago, 1865-1954. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2005.

Whiteley, John M., Helen M. Ingram, and Richard Warren Perry. Water, Place, and Equity. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008.

Zimring, Carl A. Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States. New York: New York University Press, 2015.

 

Environmental Organizations

Allen, Thomas B. Guardian of the Wild: The Story of the National Wildlife Federation, 1936-1986. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.

Bohlen, Jim. Making Waves: The Origins and Future of Greenpeace. New York: Black Rose Books, 2001.

Bosso, Christopher J. Environment Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005.

Cohen, Michael P. The History of the Sierra Club, 1892-1970. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1988.

Jordan, Benjamin René. Modern Manhood and the Boy Scouts of America: Citizenship, Race, and the Environment, 1910-1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016.

Lee, Martha F. Earth First!: Environmental Apocalypse. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1995.

Zakin, Susan. Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement. New York: Viking, 1993.

Zelko, Frank S. Make It a Green Peace!: The Rise of Countercultural Environmentalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

 

Energy, Oil, and Nuclear Issues

Ackland, Len. Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West. Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.

Andrews, Thomas G. Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.

Aron, Joan. Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.

Barrett, Ross, and Daniel Worden, eds. Oil Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

Black, Brian. Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Bowman, Andy. The West Texas Power Plant That Saved the World: Energy, Capitalism, and Climate Change. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2021.

Brown, Kate. Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Cater, Casey P. Regenerating Dixie: Electric Energy and the Modern South. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019.

Cohn, Julie A. The Grid: Biography of an American Technology. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2017.

Dalton, Russell J., ed. Critical Masses: Citizens, Nuclear Weapons Production, and Environmental Destruction in the United States and Russia. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.

Duffy, Robert J. Nuclear Politics in America: A History and Theory of Government Regulation. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997.

Findlay, John M., and Bruce William Hevly. Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011.

Fox, Sarah Alisabeth. Downwind: A People's History of the Nuclear West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014.

Frehner, Brian. Finding Oil: The Nature of Petroleum Geology, 1859–1920. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011.

Gerber, Michele Stenehjem. On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992

Hakes, Jay E. Energy Crises: Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Hard Choices in the 1970s. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021.

Hamblin, Jacob Darwin. The Wretched Atom: America's Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Hevly, Bruce, and John M. Findlay, eds. The Atomic West. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998.

Huber, Matthew T. Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

Jacob, Gerald. Site Unseen: The Politics of Siting a Nuclear Waste Repository. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990.

Jacobs, Meg. Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s. New York: Hill and Wang, 2016.

Johnson, Bob. Mineral Rites: An Archaeology of the Fossil Economy. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.

Johnson, Robert. Carbon Nation: Fossil Fuels in the Making of American Culture. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2014.

Jones, Christopher F. Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014.

Kaufman, Scott. Project Plowshare: The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosives in Cold War America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013.

Keiner, Christine. Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2020.

Kirsch, Scott. Proving Grounds: Project Plowshare and the Unrealized Dream of Nuclear Earthmoving. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005.

Kuletz, Valerie L. The Tainted Desert: Environmental and Social Ruin in the American West. New York: Routledge, 1998.

Lifset, Robert, ed. American Energy Policy in the 1970s. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014.

McSwain, James B. Petroleum & Public Safety: Risk Management in the Gulf South, 1901–2015. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018.

Melosi, Martin V. Coping with Abundance: Energy and Environment in Industrial America. New York: Knopf, 1985.

Miner, H. Craig. Wolf Creek Station: Kansas Gas and Electric Company in the nuclear era. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1993.

Mogren, Eric. Warm Sands: Uranium Mill Tailings Policy in the Atomic West. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002.

Mom, Gijs. The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Needham, Todd Andrew. Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest. Princeton: Princeton Univiversity Press, 2014.

Nye, David E. Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies. Boston: The MIT Press, 1998.

Osif, Bonnie A., Anthony J. Baratta, and Thomas W. Conkling. TMI 25 Years Later: The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident and Its Impact. University Park: Penn State Press, 2004.

Pratt, Joseph A., Martin V. Melosi, and Kathleen A. Brosnan, eds. Energy Capitals: Local Impact, Global Influence. Pittsburgh, Penn.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.

Pritikin, Trisha T. The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020.

Righter, Robert W. Wind Energy in America: A History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.

Sabol Spezio, Teresa. Slick Policy: Environmental and Science Policy in the Aftermath of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018.

Shulman, Peter A. Coal and Empire: The Birth of Energy Security in Industrial America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.

Theriot, Jason P. American Energy, Imperiled Coast: Oil and Gas Development in Louisiana's Wetlands. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2014.

Turner, James Morton. Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022.

Walker, J. Samuel. Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Walker, J. Samuel. The Road to Yucca Mountain: The Development of Radioactive Waste Policy in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.

Ward, Chip. Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West. New York: Verso, 1999.

Wellock, Thomas Raymond. Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958-1978. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.

Wight, David M. Oil Money: Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of US Empire, 1967–1988. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2021.

Williams, James C. Energy and the Making of Modern California. Akron: University of Akron Press, 1997.

Wills, John. Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2006.

Zaretsky, Natasha. Radiation Nation: Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.

 

Pollution, Pesticides, and Toxic Waste

Allen, Barbara L. Uneasy alchemy: citizens and experts in Louisiana's chemical corridor disputes. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003.

Blanc, Paul David. Fake Silk: The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.

Blum, Elizabeth D. Love Canal Revisited: Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008.

Bohme, Susanna Rankin. Toxic Injustice: A Transnational History of Exposure and Struggle. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015.

Bosso, Christopher J. Pesticides and Politics: The Life Cycle of a Public Issue. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987.

Buhs, Joshua Blu. The Fire Ant Wars: Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Bullard, Robert D. Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality. 3rd ed. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2000.

Cole, Luke W., and Sheila R. Foster. From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

Colten, Craig E., and Peter N. Skinner. The Road to Love Canal: Managing Industrial Waste before EPA. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.

Daniel, Pete. Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II South.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.

Davis, Devra Lee. When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution. New York: Basic Books, 2002.

Davis, Frederick Rowe. Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014.

Dewey, Scott Hamilton. Don't Breathe the Air: Air Pollution and U.S. Environmental Politics, 1945-1970. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000.

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

Foote, Stephanie, and Elizabeth Mazzolini, eds. Histories of the Dustheap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2012.

Hamblin, Jacob Darwin. Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2008.

Hay, Amy Marie. The Defoliation of America: Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2022.

Homburg, Ernst, and Elisabeth Vaupel, eds. Hazardous Chemicals: Agents of Risk and Change, 1800–2000. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019.

Kehoe, Terence. Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: From Cooperation to Confrontation. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997.

Kinkela, David. DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

Langston, Nancy. Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.

Lerner, Steve. Diamond: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005.

Lorenz, Edward C. Civic Empowerment in an Age of Corporate Greed. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2012.

Markowitz, Gerald, and David Rosner. Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Mart, Michelle. Pesticides, a Love Story: America's Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015.

Mazur, Allan. A Hazardous Inquiry: The Rashomon Effect at Love Canal. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.

McGucken, William. Lake Erie Rehabilitated: Controlling Cultural Eutrophication, 1960s-1990s. Akron: University of Akron Press, 2000.

McGurty, Eileen Maura. Transforming Environmentalism: Warren County, PCBS, and the Origins of Environmental Justice. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2007.

McWilliams, James E. American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.

Milazzo, Paul Charles. Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1955-1972. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006.

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

Newman, Richard S. Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Patterson, Gordon M. The Mosquito Crusades: A History of the American Anti-Mosquito Movement From the Reed Commission to the First Earth Day. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2009.

Russell, Edmund. War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Sarathy, Brinda, Vivien Hamilton, and Janet Farrell Brodie, eds. Inevitably Toxic: Historical Perspectives on Contamination, Exposure, and Expertise. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018.

Sellers, Christopher C. Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Sideris, Lisa H., and Kathleen Dean Moore, eds. Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008.

Smith, Susan L. Toxic Exposures: Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2017.

Snow, Bradley D. Living with Lead: An Environmental History of Idaho's Coeur D'Alenes, 1885–2011. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017.

Spears, Ellen Griffith. Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

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

Thomson, Jennifer. The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

Troesken, Werner. The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.

Uekötter, Frank. The Age of Smoke: Environmental Policy in Germany and the United States, 1880–1970. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.

Vail, David D. Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America's Grasslands Since 1945. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2018.

Wargo, John. Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us From Pesticides. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

Whorton, James. Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974.

Winston, Mark. Nature Wars: People vs. Pests. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Zierler, David. The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam, and the Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think About the Environment. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011.

Zimring, Carl A. Aluminum Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,  2017.

 

Capitalism, Labor, and Economics

Berghoff, Hartmut, and Adam Rome, eds. Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.

Blackford, Mansel G. Columbus, Ohio: Two Centuries of Business and Environmental Change. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016.

Elmore, Bartow J. Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism. New York: Norton, 2015.

Elmore, Bartow J. Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future. New York: Norton, 2021.

Elmore, Bartow J. Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023.

Loomis, Erik. Empire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Steinberg, Theodore. Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Stoll, Mark. Profit: An Environmental History. Cambridge, U.K.: Polity, 2022.

 

Parks, Monuments, and Tourism

Anzalone, Jonathan D. Battles of the North Country: Wilderness Politics and Recreational Development in the Adirondack State Park, 1920–1980. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2018.

Barringer, Mark Daniel. Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002.

Biel, Alice Wondrak. Do (Not) Feed the Bears: The Fitful History of Wildlife and Tourists in Yellowstone. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006.

Borrelli, Peter. Stellwagen: The Making and Unmaking of a National Marine Sanctuary. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2009.

Carr, Ethan. Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.

Catton, Theodore. National Park, City Playground: Mount Rainier in the Twentieth Century. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006.

Childers, Michael W. Colorado Powder Keg: Ski Resorts and the Environmental Movement. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012.

Cozine, James. Saving the Big Thicket: From Exploration to Preservation, 1685-2003. Denton: Big Thicket Association/University of North Texas Press, 2004.

Feldman, James W. A Storied Wilderness: Rewilding the Apostle Islands. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011.

Frank, Jerry J. Making Rocky Mountain National Park: The Environmental History of an American Treasure. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013.

Graham, Frank. The Adirondack Park: A Political History. New York: Knopf, 1978.

Grusin, Richard. Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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

Herring, Scott. Lines on the Land: Writers, Art, and the National Parks. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004.

Huntley, Jen A. The Making of Yosemite: James Mason Hutchings and the Origin of America's Most Popular National Park. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2011.

Irwin, William R. The New Niagara: Tourism, Technology, and the Landscape of Niagara Falls, 1776-1917. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.

Jarvis, Kimberly A. Franconia Notch and the Women Who Saved It. Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2007.

Jefferson, Alison R. Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020.

Julin, Suzanne. A Marvelous Hundred Square Miles: Black Hills Tourism, 1880–1941. Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2009.

Kahrl, Andrew W. Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America’s Most Exclusive Shoreline. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.

Louter, David. Windshield Wilderness: Cars, Roads, and Nature in Washington's National Parks. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006.

Mark, Stephen R. Preserving the Living Past: John C. Merriam's Legacy in the State and National Parks. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

McClelland, Linda Flint. Building the National Parks: Historic Landscape Design and Construction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univesity Press, 1998.

Meyerson, Harvey. Nature's Army: When Soldiers Fought for Yellowstone. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2001.

Mitchell, Kerry. Spirituality and the State: Managing Nature and Experience in America's National Parks. New York: New York University Press, 2017.

Nabokov, Peter, and Lawrence L. Loendorf. Restoring a Presence: American Indians and Yellowstone National Park. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.

Nelson, Daniel. Northern Landscapes: The Struggle for Wilderness Alaska. Washington, D.C.: RFF Press, 2004.

Nelson, David J. How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism: The Civilian Conservation Corps and State Parks. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2019.

O'Brien, Bob R. Our National Parks and the Search for Sustainability. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.

Philpott, William. Vacationland: Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013.

Purchase, Eric. Out of Nowhere: Disaster and Tourism in the White Mountains. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Rawson, Timothy. Changing Tracks: Predators and Politics in Mt. McKinley National Park. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2001.

Rothman, Hal. Blazing Heritage: A History of Wildland Fire in the National Parks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Rothman, Hal. Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.

Rothman, Hal. The New Urban Park: Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Civic Environmentalism. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003.

Rothman, Hal. Preserving Different Pasts: the American National Monuments. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

Rothman, Hal, and Char Miller. Death Valley National Park: A History. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2013.

Runte, Alfred. National Parks: The American Experience. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979.

Runte, Alfred. Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.

Sellars, Richard West. Preserving Nature in the National Parks: A History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

Shaffer, Marguerite S. See American First: Tourism and National Identity, 1880-1940. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001.

Shapiro, Aaron. The Lure of the North Woods: Cultivating Tourism in the Upper Midwest. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

Shepherd, Jeffrey P. Guadalupe Mountains National Park: An Environmental History of the Southwest Borderlands. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019.

Sowards, Adam M. Making America’s Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.

Stine, Jeffrey K. Green Persuasion: Advertising, Voluntarism, and America’s Public Lands. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Scholarly Press, 2021.

Stradling, David. Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007.

Utley, Dan K., and James W. Steely. Guided with a Steady Hand: The Cultural Landscape of a Rural Texas Park. Waco: Baylor University Press, 1998.

Young, Terence. Building San Francisco's Parks. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

 

Forests and National Forests

Botshon, Ann. Saving Sterling Forest: The Epic Struggle to Preserve New York's Highlands. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007.

Boyd, William. The Slain Wood: Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American South. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.

Brock, Emily K. Money Trees: The Douglas Fir and American Forestry, 1900-1944. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2015.

Carter, Mason C., Robert C. Kellison, and R. Scott Wallinger. Forestry in the U.S. South: A History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2016.

Catton, Theodore R. American Indians and National Forests. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016.

Cohen, Shaul Ephraim. Planting Nature: Trees and the Manipulation of Environmental Stewardship in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Cox, Thomas R., Robert S. Maxwell, Philip Drennon Thomas, and Joseph J. Malone. This Well-Wooded Land: Americans and Their Forests from Colonial Times to the Present. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985.

Cox, Thomas R. The Lumberman's Frontier: Three Centuries of Land Use, Society, and Change in America's Forests. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2010.

Freinkel, Susan. American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Goodman, Jordan, and Viven Walsh. The Story of Taxol: Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-cancer Drug. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Gordon, Greg. When Money Grew on Trees: A.B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014.

Hays, Samuel P. Wars in the Woods: The Rise of Ecological Forestry in America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.

Hays, Samuel P. The American People & the National Forests: The First Century of the U.S. Forest Service. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.

Hirt, Paul W. A Conspiracy of Optimism: Management of the National Forests since World War Two. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.

Hudson, Mark. Fire Management in the American West: Forest Politics and the Rise of Megafires. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2011.

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

Newfont, Kathryn. Blue Ridge Commons: Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012.

Shindler, Bruce A., Thomas M. Beckley, and Mary Carmel Finley, eds. Two Paths toward Sustainable Forests: Public Values in Canada and the United States. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2003.

Steen, Harold K. The U.S. Forest Service: A History. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1976.

Swanson, Frederick H. The Bitterroot and Mr. Brandborg: Clearcutting and the Struggle for Sustainable Forestry in the Northern Rockies. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2011.

Widick, Richard. Trouble in the Forest: California's Redwood Timber Wars. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

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