Radical Environmentalism Bibliography (By Subject)
* recommended and especially relevant to the study of radical environmentalism. ** most highly recommended and relevant to the study of radical environmentalism.
Historical and Analytical Sources - Books
Bishop, James. 1994. Epitaph for a desert anarchist: the life and legacy of Edward Abbey. New York & Toronto: Atheneum. Cahalan, James M. 2001. Edward Abbey: a life. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Chase, Alston. 1995. In a Dark Wood: The Fight over Forests and the Rising Tyranny of Ecology (New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.). * 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! Encounter Books: San Francisco, 2005. * Dowie, Mark. Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1995. (Many radical environmentalists found vindication in its analysis of the failures of reform environmentalism, even though this book is at most indirectly about radical environmentalism. Farrell, Justin. 2015. The battle for Yellowstone: morality and the sacred roots of environmental conflict, Princeton: Princeton University Press. Kuipers, Dean. 2009. Operation bite back: Rod Coronado's war to save American wilderness. Blomsbury. ** Fox, Stephen. The American Conservation Movement: John Muir and His Legacy. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981. Gottlieb, Robert. Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement. Washington D.C.: Island Press, 1993. (Excellent history spotlighting the significance and emergence of the ‘environmental justice’ movement.) Hays, Samuel P. A History of Environmental Politics Since 1945. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. Pezeshki, Charles. 1998. Wild to the Last: Environmental Conflict in Clearwater Country (Pullman, Washington: Washington State University Press).Lee, Martha F. Earth First!: Environmental Apocalypse. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1995. (A book based on little field work and significantly derived Taylor’s early article in The Ecologist.) Loeffler, Jack. 2002. Adventures with Ed. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Losure, Mary. Our Way or the Highway: Inside the Minnehaha Free State, 2002. Minnesota University Press, St. Paul, Minnesota. (A good journalistic account of the direct action campaign versus a road in Minnesota, on terrain considered sacred by some indigenous people and a variety of Earth First!ers. Provides a window into the character of Earth First! by the late 1990s.) Merchant, Carolyn. 2005 [1992]. Radical ecology: the search for a livable world. New York & London: Routledge. Mies, Maria, and Vandana Shiva. 1993. Ecofeminism. London: Zed, 1993. Murray, John A., ed. 2015. Abbey in America: a philosopher's legacy in a new century. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Nash, Roderick Frazier. The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. * ______. Wilderness and the American Mind. 4th ed. 1967; reprint, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. (A classic work that convinced many radical environmentalists that Chrstianity is anti-nature.) Nash, Roderick Frazier, ed. American Environmentalism: Readings in Conservation History. Third ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 1990. Pellow, David N. 2014. Total liberation: the power and promise of animal rights and the radical earth movement. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Pike, Sarah M. 2017. For the wild: ritual and commitment in radical eco-activism. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press. Ronald, Ann. 2000. The New West of Edward Abbey. 2nd ed (Reno: University of Nevada Press).