Suggested Books for the Analytical Book Review 

HIST 4323 Fall 2021

Index

General

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Human Impact on the Environment

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.

INDIANS

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

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

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

WATER

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

URBAN

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

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.

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

Craig E. Colton, 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 THE 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.

NEW ENGLAND AND MIDWEST

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

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

THE SOUTH

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

CALIFORNIA

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

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

OCEANS

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.

Biography

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

History of Ecology

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

History of Ideas about Nature

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Literature, the Arts, and Nature

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Women and the Environment

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

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

Race and Environmental Justice

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Wargo, John. Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us From Pesticides. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

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.

Capitalism, Labor, and Economics

Elmore, Bartow J. Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism. New York: Norton, 2015.

Loomis, Erik. Empire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Parks, Monuments, and Tourism

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.

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

Louter, David. Windshield Wilderness: Cars, Roads, and Nature in Washington's National Parks. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006.

Nelson, Daniel. Northern Landscapes: The Struggle for Wilderness Alaska. Washington, D.C.: RFF Press, 2004.

Philpott, William. Vacationland: Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013.

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.

Forest and National Forests

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

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.

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.

Widick, Richard. Trouble in the Forest: California's Redwood Timber Wars. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

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