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Human Impact on the Environment

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Biography

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History of Ecology

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History of Ideas about Nature

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Literature, the Arts, and Nature

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Conservation and Environmentalism

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Women and the Environment

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Environmental Organizations

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Energy, Oil, and Nuclear Issues

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Pollution, Pesticides, and Toxic Waste

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Parks, Monuments, and Tourism

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Forests and National Forests

Human Impact on the Environment

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

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

INDIANS

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

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

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

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

WATER

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.

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.

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

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

Opie, John. Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.

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.

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

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

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

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

FISH AND WILDLIFE

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

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.

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

AGRICULTURE
(See also WATER)

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.

URBAN

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

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

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

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

THE SOUTH

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.

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

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.

THE WEST AND MIDWEST

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

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

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

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

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

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

Biography

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

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

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

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

History of Ecology

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

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

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

History of Ideas about Nature

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. 4th ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.

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

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

Literature, the Arts, and Nature

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conservation and Environmentalism

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

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

Cramer, Phillip F. Deep Environmental Politics: The Role of Radical Environmentalism in Crafting American Environmental Policy. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998.

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.

Hays, Samuel P. Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955-1985. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, s1987.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Women and the Environment

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Pollution, Pesticides, and Toxic Waste

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

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

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.

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.

Kehoe, Terence. Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: From Cooperation to Confrontation. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997.

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.

Russell, Edmund. War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Sellers, Christopher C.  Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

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.

Parks, Monuments, and Tourism

Barringer, Mark Daniel. Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002.

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

O'Brien, Bob R. Our National Parks and the Search for Sustainability. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.

Rawson, Timothy. Changing Tracks: Predators and Politics in Mt. McKinley National Park. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2001.

Rothman, Hal. Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.

Rothman, Hal. Preserving Different Pasts: the American National Monuments. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

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.

Forest and National Forests

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.

Hirt, Paul W. A Conspiracy of Optimism: Management of the National Forests since World War Two. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.

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

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