Here is the environmental history list so you can see what I am in for. It is not that bad. Actually I am excited to read and re-read most of what is on it. Yes there are some omissions that may get people a little worked up but the limit is 60 books or equivalent articles so somethings had to go. Of the 83 items on the list I start having read about 19 – but I am not going to tell you which 19 just yet.
When the post-confederation Canadian History and Rocky Mountain/Cordillera lists are finalized they will be posted too.
- A: General Overviews
- Donald Worster, Nature’s Economy
- Glacken, Traces on the Rhodian Shore
- McNeill, Something New Under the Sun
- Smil, Energy in World History
- B: Theory / Method
- Cronon, “A Place for Stories,” Journal of American History (1992)
- Merchant, “The Theoretical Structure of Ecological Revolutions,”
- Demeritt, “Ecology, objectivity, and critique,” Journal of Historical Geography
- Worster, “Transformations of the Earth,” Jounral of American History (1990)
- Flores, “Place: An Argument for Bioregional History,”
- Parr, “Notes for a more sensuous history,” Canadian Historical Review (2001)
- Stephen Boyden, “Nature, Society, History, and Social Change,”
- Hoffmann, either “Frontier Foods” or “Is Industrial Metabolism really the Problem?”
- Taylor, “Unnatural Inequalities,” Environmental History (1996)
- Sorlin and Warde, “The Problem of the problem of Environmental History,”
- C: Ecological Imperialism
- Crosby, Ecological Imperialism
- Cronon, Changes in the Land
- Piper and Sandlos, “A Broken Frontier” Environmental History (2007)
- Dunlap, “Remaking the Land” (1997)
- D: Pre-Colombian EH / Native People’s and Environmental History
- Harris, Making Native Space
- Cruikshank, Do Glaciers Listen?
- Binnema, Common and Contested Ground
- Carter, Lost Harvests
- White, Middle Ground
- Krech, Ecological Indian
- E: Agriculture / Early Settlement
- Melville, Plague of Sheep
- Evans, War on Weeds
- Sandwell, Contesting Rural Space
- Dechene, Habitants and Merchants
- Worster, Rivers of Empire
- Fitzgerald, Every Farm a Factory
- Fiege, Irrigated Eden
- Webb, Great Plains
- F: Natural Resources (Mines, Fisheries, Timber, Oil, Hydro)
- Cadigan, “Moral Economy”
- Taylor, Making Salmon
- Jeremy B.C. Jackson et al, “Historical Overfishing and the Recent Collapse of Coastal Ecosystems”
- Evenden, Fish vs. Power
- Nelles, Politics of Development
- Andrews, Killing for Coal
- Rosner and Markowitz, Deadly Dust
- Parenteau, “Care Control and Supervision,” CHR 1998
- Parenteau, “A ‘Very Determined Opposition’” EH (2004)
- Kinsey, “An Aquacultural Revolution”
- Gillis and Roach, Lost Initiatives
- Morse, Nature of Gold
- White, Organic Machine
- LeCain, “Limits of Eco-Efficiency”
- Tough, As Their Natural Resources Fail
- Lower, Settlement and the Forest Frontier & Innis, Settlement and the Mining Frontier
- G: Animals / Wildlife / Fur Trade
- Loo, States of Nature
- Jacoby, Crimes Against Nature
- Isenberg, Destruction of the Bison
- Colpitts, Game in the Garden
- Marks, Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt
- H: Conservation, Commons, Parks, Wilderness
- Carlos and Frank, “Indians, the Beaver, and the Bay”
- Limerick, Something in the Soil
- Hardin, “The Tragedy of the Commons”
- Spry, “The Great Transformation”
- Sutter, Driven Wild
- Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind
- Jasen, Wild Things
- Dunlap, Nature and the English Diaspora
- MacLaren, “Cultured Wilderness in Jasper National Park”
- I: Environmentalism
- Grove, Green Imperialism
- Bess, Light-Green Society
- Hazlett, “Women vs. Man vs. Bugs”
- Zelko, “Making Greenpeace”
- Rome, “”Give Earth a Chance”: The Environmental Movement and the Sixties”
- Wirth, “Trail Smelter Dispute”
- Carson, Silent Spring
- Schrepfer, Nature’s Altars: Mountains, Gender and American Environmentalism
- Dunaway, Natural Visions
- J: Fire
- Pyne, Awful Splendour
- K: Science / Technology
- Castonguay, “Naturalizing federalism”
- Russell, War and Nature
- Nash, Inescapable Ecologies
- Nye, American Technological Sublime
- Scott, Seeing like a State
- L: Urban
- K. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier
- Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis
- Dagenais and Durand, “Cleansing, Draining, and Sanitizing”
- Tarr, “The Metabolism of the Industrial City: The Case of Pittsburgh”
- Melosi, Effluent America
- Bocking, “Constructing Urban Expertise”
