The Environment in American History Complete and Expanded Further Reading List

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

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

Ballard, Michael B. Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Barber, Katrine. Death of Celilo Falls. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.

Bartram, William. Travels: Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida. 1791; New York: Penguin Books, 1988.

Bell, Andrew McIlwaine. Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War. Baton Rouge, LA: Lousiana State University Press, 2010.

Benavides, Alonso de. Benavides' Memorial of 1630, trans. Peter P. Forrestal. Washington, DC: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1954.

Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Bernstein, Peter L. Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2005.

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

Bollet, Alfred Jay. Civil War Medicine: Challenges and Triumphs. Tuscon, AZ: Galen Press, 2002.

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

Bray, Kingsley M. Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006.

Brinkley, Douglas. The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. New York: Harper Perennial, 2006.

———. The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America. New York: Harper Perennial, 2009.

Bruegel, Martin. Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780–1860. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.

Brulle, Robert J. Agency, Democracy, and Nature: The U.S. Environmental Movement from a Critical Theory Perspective. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2000.

Bullard, Robert. Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000.

———. The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2005.

Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962.

Chase, Alston. Playing God in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America’s First National Park. New York: Harvest Brace Jovanovich, 1987.

Cohen, Lizabeth. A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. New York: Vintage Books, 2004.

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

Colten, Craig E., ed. Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.

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

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.

Crane, Jeff. Finding the River: An Environmental History of the Elwha. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2011.

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

———. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991.

Crosby, Alfred. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972.

———. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Dattel, Gene. Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2009.

Davis, John. Wyoming Range War: The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010.

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

Deitrich, William. Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Dolin, Eric Jay. Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2010.

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

Donovan, James. A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn—The Last Great Battle of the American West. New York: Back Bay Books, 2009.

Dower, John W. War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.

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

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

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

Dunmire, William. Gardens of New Spain: How Mediterranean Plants and Foods Changed America. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004.

Dunn, Richard S., and Laetitia Yeandle, eds. The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630–1649. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996.

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

Egan, Michael, and Jeff Crane, eds. Natural Protest: Essays on the History of American Environmentalism. New York: Routledge Press, 2009.

Fagin, Dan. Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation. New York: Bantam, 2013.

Fenn, Elizabeth A. Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001.

Fiege, Mark. Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000.

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

Fischer, David Hackett. Champlain’s Dream: The European Founding of North America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.

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

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

Fox, Stephen. The American Conservation Movement: John Muir and His Legacy. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1981.

Glave, Dianne D. Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2010.

Gottlieb, Robert. Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2005.

Gottlieb, Robert, and Anupama Joshi. Food Justice. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2013.

Grant, Ulysses S. Memoirs and Selected Letters: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Selected Letters, 1839–1865. 2 vols. in 1. New York: Library of America, 1990.

Greene, Jeffrey. Water from Stone: The Story of Selah, Bamberger Ranch Preserve. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007.

Hämäläinen, Pekka. The Comanche Empire. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.

Hamblin, Jacob Darwin. Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Harvey, Mark. A Symbol of Wilderness: Echo Park and the American Conservation Movement. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994.

Hays, Samuel. Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890–1920. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1959.

———. Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955– 1985. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Hirt, Paul. A Conspiracy of Optimism: Management of the National Forests Since World War II. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.

———. The Wired Northwest: The History of Electric Power, 1870s–1970s. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012.

Holton, Woody. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves & the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Hundley, Jr., Norris. The Great Thirst: Californians and Water, 1770s–1990s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

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

Hyde, Anne F. Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the American West, 1800– 1860. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011.

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

———. Mining California: An Ecological History. New York: Hill and Wang, 2005.

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

Judd, Richard. Common Lands, Common People: The Origins of Conservation in Northern New England. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Judd, Richard, and Christopher S. Beach. Natural States: The Environmental Imagination in Maine, Oregon, and the Nation. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2003.

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

Keegan, John. The Second World War. New York: Penguin Books, 2005.

Kelman, Ari. A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.

Kennedy, David. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929– 1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

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

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

Kirk, Ruth. Tradition and Change on the Northwest Coast: The Makah, Nuu-chah-nulth, Southern Kwakiutl and Nuxalk. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986.

Kline, Benjamin. First Along the River: A Brief History of the U.S. Environmental Movement. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.

Knobloch, Frieda. The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as Colonization in the American West. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Kolbert, Elizabeth. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 2014.

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

Kulikoff, Allan. Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680–1800. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.

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

Lear, Linda. Rachel Carson: Witness For Nature. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997.

Le Clercq, Chrestien, translated by William F. Ganong. New Relations of Gaspesia, with the Customs and Religion of the Gaspesian Indians. 1691; Toronto, Canada: Champlain Society, 1910.

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

———. Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012.

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

Lowry, William R. Dam Politics: Restoring America’s Rivers. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003.

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.

Markowitz, Gerald, and David Rosner. Lead War: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.

Marsh, Kevin. Drawing Lines in the Forest: Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007.

Masco, Joseph. The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.

McCarthy, Tom. Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007.

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

McGurty, Eileen. Transforming Environmentalism: Warren County, PCBs, and the Origins of Environmental Justice. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009.

McNeill, J. R. Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

McPherson, James. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Meinig, D. W. The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Volume I, Atlantic America, 1492-1800. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986.

Melosi, Martin. Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment. Pittsburg, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.

Merrell, James H. The Indians’ New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact Through the Era of Removal. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989.

Mitchell, Timothy. Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil. New York: Verso, 2013.

Mobley, Joe A. Weary of War: Life on the Confederate Home Front. Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 1998.

Monnett, John H. Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed: The Struggle for the Powder River Country in 1866 and the Making of the Fetterman Myth. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008.

Moore, John Hebron. The Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom in the Old Southwest: Mississippi, 1770–1860. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.

Murray, Williamson. War in the Air: 1914–1945. New York: Harper Paperbacks, 2005.

Nash, Gerald D. The American West Transformed: The Impact of the Second World War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985.

Nash, Linda. Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1967.

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

Neer, Robert M. Napalm: An American Biography. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.

Nelson, Lynn A. Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780–1880. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2007.

Oelschlaeger, Max. The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993.

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, 2011.

Orr, David. Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2004.

———. Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Overy, Richard. Why the Allies Won. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. Parker, Matthew. Monte Cassino: The Hardest-Fought Battle of World War II. New York: Doubleday, 2004.

Pasternak, Judy. Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010.

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

Pilkey, Orrin H., and Keith C. Pilkey. Global Climate Change: A Primer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.

Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.

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

Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. New York: Penguin Books, 1993.

Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.

Richter, Daniel K. The Ordeal of the Long-house: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

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.

Robbins, William. Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story, 1800–1940. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1997.

———. Hard Times in Paradise: Coos Bay, Oregon. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006.

Robinson, Michael. Predator Bureacracy: The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West. Boulder: The University Press of Colorado, 2005.

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

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

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

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

Scarz, Rik. Eco-Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2006.

Sellars, Richard West. Preserving Nature in The National Parks: A History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.

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

Shapiro, Laura. Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America. New York: Penguin Books, 2004.

Sills, Peter. Toxic War: The Story of Agent Orange. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2014.

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

Sledge, Eugene. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa. New York: Presidio Press, 2007.

Souder, William. On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring. New York: Crown Press, 2012.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sutter, Paul S., and Manganiello, eds. Environmental History and the American South: A Reader. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2009.

Suttles, Wayne. Coast Salish Essays. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987.

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

Thompson, John M., ed. The Journals of Captain John Smith: A Jamestown Biography. Washington, DC: National Geographic Adventure Classics, 2007.

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

Unger, Nancy C. Beyond Nature’s Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Usner, Jr., Daniel H. Indians, Settlers, & Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Van Kirk, Sylvia. Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur Trade Society, 1670–1870. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983.

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

Weart, Spencer R. The Discovery of Global Warming. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.

Weber, David J. The Spanish Frontier in North America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992.

Weisiger, Marsha. Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011.

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

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

White, Richard. Land Use, Environment, and Social Change: The Shaping of Island County. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1980.

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

———. It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A New History of the American West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.

———. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lake Region, 1650– 1815. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

———. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012.

Wilber, Tom. Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012.

Wilcox, Fred A. Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2011.

Williams, Gareth. Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Winters, Harold A. Battling the Elements: Weather and Terrain in the Conduct of War. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

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

———. Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West. New York: Oxford 1985.

———. Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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