Bibliography of Global Environmental History

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Reference

Armiero, Marco, and Stefania Barca. Storia dell'Ambiente: Una Introduzione. Roma: Carocci editore, 2004.

Isenberg, Andrew C., ed. The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Krech, Shepard, John Robert McNeill, and Carolyn Merchant, eds. Encyclopedia of World Environmental History. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Kupper, Patrick. Umweltgeschichte: Einführungen in die Geschichtswissenschaft. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021.

Siemann, Wolfram, and Nils Freytag. Umweltgeschichte: Themen und Perspektiven. Munich: C.H. Beck, 2003.

Winiwarter, Verena, and Martin Knoll. Umweltgeschichte: eine Einführung. Köln: Böhlau, 2007.

Global, Comparative, or Colonial

Aloni, Omer. The League of Nations and the Protection of the Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Anker, Peder. Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895–1945. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Armiero, Marco, and Richard P. Tucker, eds. Environmental History of Modern Migrations. London: Routledge, 2017.

Arnold, David. The Problem of Nature: Environment, Culture and European Expansion. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.

Banner, Stuart. Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007.

Baranski, Marci. The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022.

Barbier, Edward. Scarcity and Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Barton, Gregory Allen. Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Barton, Greg. The Global History of Organic Farming. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Beattie, James. Empire and Environmental Anxiety: Health, Science, Art and Conservation in South Asia and Australasia, 1800-1920. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Beattie, James, Edward D. Melillo, and Emily O'Gorman, eds. Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire: New Views on Environmental History. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Beinart, William, and Lotte Hughes. Environment and Empire. The Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Benidickson, Jamie. The Culture of Flushing: A Social and Legal History of Sewage. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007.

Benson, Etienne. Surroundings: A History of Environments and Environmentalisms. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.

Berghoff, Hartmut, and Adam Rome, eds. Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.

Black, Brian. Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History. 2nd edition. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.

Brantz, Dorothee, ed. Beastly Natures: Animals, Humans, and the Study of History. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010.

Brown, Kate. Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Bsumek, Erika Marie, David Kinkela, and Mark Atwood Lawrence, eds. Nation-States and the Global Environment: New Approaches to International Environmental History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge. Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2006.

Cederlóf, Gunnel. Landscapes and the Law: Environmental Politics, Regional Histories, and Contests Over Nature. Ranikhet, India: Permanent Black, 2008.

Chakrabarty, Dipesh. The Climate of History in a Planetary Age. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Cioc, Mark. The Game of Conservation: International Treaties to Protect the World's Migratory Animals. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009.

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

Cowie, Helen. Conquering Nature in Spain and Its Empire, 1750-1850. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011.

Crosby, Alfred W. The Columbian Exchange; Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Pub. Co., 1972.

Crosby, Alfred W. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Crosby, Alfred W. Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy. New York: Norton, 2006.

Crowley, John E. Imperial Landscapes: Britain's Global Visual Culture, 1745-1820. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.

Cruikshank, Julie. Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005.

Cushman, Gregory T. Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Damodaran, Vinita, and Rohan D’Souza, eds. Commonwealth Forestry and Environmental History: Empire, Forests and Colonial Environments in Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia and New Zealand. Delhi: Primus Books, 2020.

Dargavel, John, and Elisabeth Johann. Science and Hope: A Forest History. Cambridge: White Horse Press, 2013.

De Bont, Raf. Stations in the Field: A History of Place-Based Animal Research, 1870-1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Diamond, Jared M. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York: Viking, 2005.

Diamond, Jared M. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1997.

Diefendorf, Jeffry M., and Kurk Dorsey. City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.

Dowie, Mark. Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2009.

Drayton, Richard. Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the "Improvement" of the World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.

Driver, Felix, and Luciana Martins, eds. Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Dryzek, John, Daid Downs, Hans-Kristian Hernes, et al. Green States and Social Movements: Environmentalism in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Norway. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Dunlap, Thomas. Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Dupuis, E. Melanie. Smoke and Mirrors: The Politics and Culture of Air Pollution. New York: New York University Press, 2004.

Edwards, Paul N. A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010.

Elias, Ann. Coral Empire: Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.

Ėtkind, Aleksandr. Nature's Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources. Translated by Sarah Jolly. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021.

Fagan, Brian. The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization. New York: Basic Books, 2004.

Fan, Fa-Ti. British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Farmer, Jared. Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees. New York: Basic Books, 2022.

Fernández-Armesto, Felipe. Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature. New York: Free Press, 2001.

Fleming, James Rodger. Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.

Freese, Barbara. Coal: A Human History. Cambridge: Perseus, 2003.

Garavini, Giuliano. The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Gissibl, Bernhard, Höhler Sabine, and Patrick Kupper, eds. Civilizing Nature: National Parks in Global Historical Perspective. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012.

Goldfrank, Walter L, David Goodman, and Andrew Szasz. Ecology and the World-System. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Greer, Kirsten A. Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

Gross, Stephen G., and Andrew Needham, eds. New Energies: A History of Energy Transitions in Europe and North America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023.

Grove, Richard H. Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Hall, Marcus. Earth Repair: A Transatlantic History of Environmental Restoration. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005.

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.

Hornborg, Alf, John Robert McNeill, and Juan Martínez Alier. Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change. Lanham: AltaMira Press, 2007.

Hughes, J. Donald. An Environmental History of the World: Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Hurt, R. Douglas. The Green Revolution in the Global South: Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences. Tuscaloosa: University Alabama Press, 2020.

Irving, Sarah. Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008.

Isenberg, Andrew C., ed. The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2006.

Jarrige, François, and Thomas Le Roux. La contamination du monde: Une histoire des pollutions à l'âge industriel. Paris: Le Seuil, 2017. English translation: The Contamination of the Earth: A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age. Translated by Janice Egan and Michael Egan. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020.

Josephson, Paul R. Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World. Washington: Island Press, 2002.

Kaiser, Wolfram, and Jan-Henrik Meyer, eds. International Organizations and Environmental Protection: Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century. New York: Berghahn Books, 2017.

Kirchberger, Ulrike, and Brett M Bennett, eds. Environments of Empire: Networks and Agents of Ecological Change. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

Kirchhof, Astrid Mignon, and John Robert McNeill, eds. Nature and the Iron Curtain: Environmental Policy and Social Movements in Communist and Capitalist Countries, 1945–1990. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019.

Laakkonen, Simo, Richard P Tucker, and Timo Olavi Vuorisalo, eds. The Long Shadows: A Global Environmental History of the Second World War. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2017.

Laakkonen, Simo, John Robert McNeill, Richard P. Tucker, and Timo Olavi Vuorisalo, eds. The Resilient City in World War II: Urban Environmental Histories. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

LeCain, Timothy J. The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Lehmkuhl, Ursula, and Hermann Wellenreuther. Historians and Nature: Comparative Approaches to Environmental History. Oxford: Berg, 2007.

Le Roux, Thomas, and Michel Letté, eds. Débordements industriels: Environnement, territoire et conflit (XVIIIe–XXIe siècle). Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2013.

Loewen, Royden. Mennonite Farmers: A Global History of Place and Sustainability. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2021.

Macekura, Stephen J. Of Limits and Growth: The Rise of Global Sustainable Development in the Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Macfarlane, Alan. The Savage Wars of Peace: England, Japan and the Malthusian Trap. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1997.

Mackay, Anson, Rick Battarbee, John Birks, and Frank Oldfield, eds. Global Change in the Holocene. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

MacKenzie, John M. Imperialism and the Natural World. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1990.

Marks, Robert B. The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002.

Marroquín Arredondo Jaime, and Ralph Bauer, eds. Translating Nature: Cross-Cultural Histories of Early Modern Science. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.

Mauch, Christof, and Thomas Zeller, eds. Rivers in History: Perspectives on Waterways in Europe and North America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008.

McClellan, James E., and François Regourd. The Colonial Machine: French Science and Overseas Expansion in the Old Regime. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2011.

McCook, Stuart. Coffee Is Not Forever: A Global History of the Coffee Leaf Rust. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019.

McNeill, J. R. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. New York: Norton, 2000.

McNeill, John Robert, and Corinna R. Unger, eds. Environmental Histories of the Cold War. Washington, D.C.: German Historical Institute, 2010.

McNeill, John Robert, and Verena Winiwarter, eds. Soils and Societies: Perspectives from Environmental History. Isle of Harris, U.K.: White Horse Press, 2006.

Minard, Pete. All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental: Environmental Transformation through Species Acclimatization, from Colonial Australia to the World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

Mitchell, Timothy. Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil. London: Verso, 2011.

Mom, Gijs. The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Montgomery, David R. Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Moon, David. The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–30s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Myllyntaus, Timo, ed. Thinking Through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global History. Cambridge: White Horse Press, 2011.

Osborne, Michael A. Nature, the Exotic, and the Science of French Colonialism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.

Payne, Brian J. Fishing a Borderless Sea: Environmental Territorialism in the North Atlantic, 1818-1910. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2010.

Pearson, Chris. Dogopolis: How Dogs and Humans Made Modern New York, London, and Paris. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2021.

Pirani, Simon. Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption. London: Pluto Press, 2018.

Pratt, Joseph A., Martin V. Melosi, and Kathleen A. Brosnan, eds. Energy Capitals: Local Impact, Global Influence. Pittsburgh, Penn.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.

Pyne, Stephen J. World Fire: The Culture of Fire on Earth. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995.

Pyne, Stephen J. The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021.

Radding, Cynthia. Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.

Radkau, Joachim. Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment. Washington, D.C.: German Historical Institute, 2008. Originally published as Natur und Macht: eine Weltgeschichte der Umwelt. München: Beck, 2000.

Rajan, S. Ravi. Modernizing Nature: Forestry and Imperial Eco-Development 1800–1950. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006.

Richards, John F. The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Robertson, Thomas, Richard P. Tucker, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, and Peter R. Mansoor, eds. Nature at War: American Environments and World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Robins, Jonathan. Oil Palm: A Global History. Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

Ross, Corey. Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Ruddiman, W. F. Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Russell, W. M. S. Man, Nature, and History: Controlling the Environment. Garden City, N.Y.: Natural History Press, 1967.

Sanders, Andreas R. D., Pål Thonstad Sandvik, and Espen Storli, eds. The Political Economy of Resource Regulation: An International and Comparative History, 1850–2015. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2019.

Schiebinger, Londa, and Claudia Swan, eds. Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

Schulz-Walden, Thorsten. Anfänge globaler Umweltpolitik. Umweltsicherheit in der internationalen Politik (1969–1975). München: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2013.

Selcer, Perrin. The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment: How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.

Sellers, Christopher, and Joseph Melling, eds. Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazards across a Globalized World. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012.

Smil, Vaclav. Energy in World History: Essays in World History. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994.

Sneddon, Christopher. Concrete Revolution: Large Dams, Cold War Geopolitics, and the US Bureau of Reclamation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Stepan, Nancy Leys. Picturing Tropical Nature. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001.

Stoll, Mark. Profit: An Environmental History. Cambridge, U.K.: Polity, 2022.

Teisch, Jessica B. Engineering Nature: Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

Tucker, Richard P. Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Tucker, Richard P., and Edmund Russell. Natural Enemy, Natural Ally: Toward an Environmental History of Warfare. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2004.

Tucker, Richard P., Tait Keller, John Robert McNeill, and Martin Schmid, eds. Environmental Histories of the First World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Tvedt, Terje, and Eva Jakobsson. A History of Water. Vol. 1, Water Control and River Biographies. London: I.B. Tauris, 2006.

Tvedt, Terje, and Richard Coopey. A History of Water. Vol. 2, The Political Economy of Water. London: I.B. Tauris, 2006.

Tvedt, Terje, and Terje Oestigaard. A History of Water. Vol. 3, The World of Water. London: I.B. Tauris, 2006.

Tyrrell, Ian R. True Gardens of the Gods: Californian-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860-1930. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Uekötter, Frank, ed. Exploring Apocalyptica: Coming to Terms with Environmental Alarmism. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018.

Uekötter, Frank. The Vortex: An Environmental History of the Modern World. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023.

Van der Meer, Jitse M., and Scott Mandelbrote, Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions. 2 vols in 4. Brill's Series in Church History, v36-37. Leiden: Brill, 2008.

Von Hippel, Frank A. The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.

Warsh, Molly A. American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492–1700. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

Whiteley, John M., Helen M. Ingram, and Richard Warren Perry. Water, Place, and Equity. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008.

Williams, Michael. Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Wood, Denis. Five Billion Years of Global Change: A History of the Land. New York: Guilford Press, 2004.

Woods, Rebecca J. H. The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800–1900. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

Worster, Donald. The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on Modern Environmental History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Worster, Donald. Shrinking the Earth: The Rise and Decline of American Abundance. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Wright, Christopher, and Daniel Nyberg. Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

 

Europe and the Mediterranean

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Anderson Benjamin, A. Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in Fin-De-Siècle England and Germany. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Arnold, Ellen Fenzel. Negotiating the Landscape: Environment and Monastic Identity in the Medieval Ardennes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.

Bernhardt, Christoph. Environmental Problems in European Cities in the 19th and 20th Century; Umweltprobleme in europäischen Städten des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Münster: Waxmann, 2001.

Bernhardt, Christoph, and Geneviève Massard-Guildbaud. Le démon moderne: La pollution dans les sociétés urbaines et industrielles d'Europe; The modern demon: Pollution in urban and industrial European societies. Clemont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2002.

Epstein, Steven. The Medieval Discovery of Nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Fournier, Patrick, and Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud. Aménagement et environnement: perspectives historiques. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2016.

Hansen, Peter H. The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering after the Enlightenment. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013.

Hobgood-Oster, Laura. Holy Dogs and Asses: Animals in the Christian Tradition. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.

Homburg, Ernst, Anthony S. Travis, and Harm G. Schröter, eds. The Chemical Industry in Europe, 1850–1914: Industrial Growth, Pollution, and Professionalization. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic, 1998.

Howe, John, and Michael Wolfe, eds. Inventing Medieval Landscapes: Senses of Place in Western Europe. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.

Jones, Peter M. Agricultural Enlightenment: Knowledge, Technology, and Nature, 1750–1840. New York: Oxford University Press,  2016.

Kirby, K. J, and C Watkins, eds. Europe's Changing Woods and Forests: From Wildwood to Cultural Landscapes. Oxfordshire, U.K.: CABI, 2015.

Kreiner, Jamie. Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020.

Massard-Guilbaud, Geneviève, Harold L. Platt, and Dieter Schott, eds. Cities and catastrophes: coping with emergency in European history = Villes et catastrophes: réactions face à l'urgence dans l'histoire européenne. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 2002.

Massard-Guilbaud, Geneviève, and Richard Rodger, eds. Environmental and Social Justice in the City: Historical Perspectives. Cambridge: White Horse Press, 2011.

Pfister, Christian, and Peter Brimblecombe, eds. The Silent Countdown: Essays in European Environmental History. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1990.

Reill, Peter Hanns. Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Robinson, Thomas M., and Laura Westra, eds. Thinking about the Environment: Our Debt to the Classical and Medieval Past. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2002.

Rootes, Christopher, ed. Environmental Protest in Western Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Schott, Dieter, Bill Luckin, and Genevieve Massard-Guilbaud, eds. Resources of the City: Contributions to an Environmental History of Modern Europe.  Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2005.

Sieferle, Rolf Peter. The Subterranean Forest: Energy Systems and the Industrial Revolution. Michael Omann, tr. Cambridge: White Horse Press, 2001.

Teich, Mikulas, Roy Porter, and Bo Gustafsson, eds. Nature and Society in Historical Context. Cambridge: University Press, 1997.

Thomson, Keith. Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

Turchetti, Simone. Greening the Alliance: The Diplomacy of NATO's Science and Environmental Initiatives. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Wöbse, Anna-Katharina, and Patrick Kupper, eds. Greening Europe: Environmental Protection in the Long Twentieth Century — a Handbook. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021.

GREAT BRITAIN

Agar, Jon, and Jacob Ward, eds., Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain. London: UCL Press, 2018.

Albritton, Vicky, and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson. Green Victorians: The Simple Life in John Ruskin's Lake District. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Amato, Sarah. Beastly Possessions: Animals in Victorian Consumer Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015.

Anderson, Katharine. Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Beaver, Daniel C. Hunting and the Politics of Violence Before the English Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Brooks, Britton Elliott. Restoring Creation: The Natural World in the Anglo-Saxon Saints' Lives of Cuthbert and Guthlac. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2019.

Cavert, William M. The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Chapman, John, and Sylvia Seeliger. Enclosure, Environment and Landscape in Southern England. Stroud: Tempus, 2001.

Clapp, B. W. An Environmental History of Britain since the Industrial Revolution. New York: Longman, 1994.

Corton, Christine L. London Fog: The Biography. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015.

Cowie, Helen. Exhibiting Animals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Empathy, Education, Entertainment. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Greer, Kirsten A. Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

Gunn, Simon, and Susan C. Townsend. Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Harman, P. M. The Culture of Nature in Britain, 1680-1860. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

Jankovic, Vladimir. Reading the Skies: A Cultural History of English Weather, 1650–1820. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Jonsson, Fredrik Albritton. Enlightenment's Frontier: The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.

Leonard, Liam, and John Barry. The Environmental Movement in Ireland. London: Springer, 2007.

Malm, Andreas. Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam-Power and the Roots of Global Warming. London: Verso, 2016.

Mathis, Charles-François, François Walter, and Jean-Pierre Poussou. In nature we trust: les paysages anglais à l'ère industrielle. Paris: Presses de l'université Paris-Sorbonne, 2010.

Olwig, Kenneth Robert. Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic: From Britain's Renaissance to America's New World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.

O'Reilly, Carole A. The Greening of the City: Urban Parks and Public Leisure, 18401939. New York: Routledge, 2019.

Otter, Chris. Diet for a Large Planet: Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.

Platt, Harold L. Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Pluymers, Keith. No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.

Readman, Paul. Storied Ground: Landscape and the Shaping of English National Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Reed, Peter. Acid Rain and the Rise of the Environmental Chemist in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2014.

Ritvo, Harriet. The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Russell, Edmund. Greyhound Nation: A Coevolutionary History of England, 1200–1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Sheail, John. An Environmental History of Twentieth-Century Britain. New York: Palgrave, 2002.

Simmons, I. G. An Environmental History of Great Britain: From 10,000 Years Ago to the Present. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 2001.

Simmons, Ian G. The Moorlands of England and Wales: An Environmental History 8000 BC to AD 2000. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004.

Smout, T. C. Nature Contested: Environmental History in Scotland and Northern England since 1600. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 2000.

Smout, T. C., Alan R. MacDonald, and Fiona Watson. A History of the Native Woodlands of Scotland, 1500–1920. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005.

Stack, Paul, and Ryk Ward, eds. The Peopling of Britain: The Shaping of a Human Landscape. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Thomas, Keith. Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500–1800. London: Allan Lane, 1983.

Thorsheim, Peter. Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain Since 1800. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006.

Tobin, Beth Fowkes. Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760–1820. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

Walsham, Alexandra. The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Williamson, Tom, Gerry Barnes, and Toby Pillatt. Trees in England: Management and Disease Since 1600. Hatfield, U.K.: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2017.

Wilson, David B. Seeking Nature's Logic: Natural Philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009.

Wulf, Andrea. The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire, and the Birth of an Obsession. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

Yerby, George. The English Revolution and the Roots of Environmental Change: The Changing Concept of the Land in Early Modern England. New York: Routledge, 2016.

FRANCE

Arnold, Ellen F. Negotiating the Landscape: Environment and Monastic Identity in the Medieval Ardennes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.

Barles, Sabine. L'Invention des Déchets Urbains: France 1790–1970. Seyssel, France: Editions Champ Vallon, 2016.

Bess, Michael. The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960–2000. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Bivar, Venus. Organic Resistance: The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

Boullet, Daniel. Entreprises et environnement en France de 1960 à 1990: les chemins d'un prise de conscience. Travaux de sciences sociales, no 209. Genève: Librairie Droz, 2006.

Charvolin, Florian. L'invention de l'environnement en France. Paris: La Découverte, 2003.

Church, Christopher M. Paradise Destroyed: Catastrophe and Citizenship in the French Caribbean. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

Collomb, Gerard. Du bon usage de la montagne. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1989.

Duffy, Andrea E. Nomad's Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019.

Frioux, Stéphane. Les Batailles de l'hygiène: Villes et Environnement de Pasteur aux Trente Glorieuses. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2013.

Guerrini, Anita. The Courtiers' Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV's Paris. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Guillerme, André. The Age of Water: The Urban Environment in the North of France, A.D. 300–1800. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1988.

Hopkins, Richard S. Planning the Greenspaces of Nineteenth-Century Paris. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015.

Leynaud, Emile. L'Etat et la Nature: L'exemple des parcs nationaux français. Florac: Parc National des Cevennes, 1985.

Lyon-Caen, Nicolas, and Morera Raphaël. À Vos Poubelles Citoyens! Environnement Urbain, Salubrité Publique et Investissement Civique, Paris, XVIe-XVIIIe Siècle. Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2020.

Lyons, Martyn. The Pyrenees in the Modern Era: Reinventions of a Landscape, 1775–2012. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.

Marié, Michel, and Jean Viard. La campagne inventée. Arles: Actes Sud, 1988 (1977).

Massard-Guilbaud, Geneviève. Histoire de la pollution industrielle France, 1789–1914. Paris: Éditions de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2010.

Matagne, Patrick. Aux Origines de l’écologie: les naturalistes en France de 1800 à 1914. Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 1999.

Mathis, Charles-François, and Jean-François Mouhot, eds. Une protection de l'environnement á la française? Seyssel, France: Champ Vallon, 2013.

Mathis, Charles-François, and Émilie-Anne Pépy. Greening the City: Nature in French Towns from the 17th Century. Cambridgeshire, U.K.: White Horse Press, 2020.

Matteson, Kieko. Forests in Revolutionary France: Conservation, Community, and Conflict 1669–1848. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Morgan, Luke. Nature As Model: Salomon De Caus and Early Seventeenth-Century Landscape Design. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.

Moriceau, Jean-Marc. L’homme contre le loup: une guerre de deux mille ans. Paris: Fayard, 2011.

Pearson, Chris. Scarred Landscapes: War and Nature in Vichy France. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Pearson, Chris. Mobilizing Nature: The Environmental History of War and Militarization in Modern France. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012.

Pritchard, Sara B. Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011.

Szarka, Joseph. The Shaping of Environmental Policy in France. New York: Berghahn Books, 2002.

Terrall, Mary. Catching Nature in the Act: Réaumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Viard, Jean. Le Tiers Espace: essai sur la nature. Paris: Méridiens Klincksieck, 1990.

Wei, Ian P. Thinking About Animals in Thirteenth-Century Paris: Theologians on the Boundary between Humans and Animals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Whited, Tamara. Forests and Peasant Politics in Modern France. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.

LOWLANDS

Degroot, Dagomar. The Frigid Golden Age: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560–1720. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Sundberg, Adam. Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age: Floods, Worms, and Cattle Plague. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

TeBrake, William H. Medieval Frontier: Culture and Ecology in Rijnland. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1984.

Ven, G. P. van de. Man-made Lowlands: History of Water Management and Land Reclamation in the Netherlands. [Utrecht]: Uitgeverij Matrijs, 1993.

Windt, Henny J. van der. En Dan, Wat Is Natuur Nog in Dit Land? Natuurbescherming in Nederland 1880–1990. Amsterdam: Boom, 1995.

IBERIA

González de Molina Navarro, Manuel, and Juan Martínez Alier, eds. Naturaleza transformada: estudios de historia ambiental en España. Barcelona: Icaria Editorial, 2001.

Hamilton, Sarah R. Cultivating Nature: The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018.

Ramos, Julián Clemente, ed. El Medio Natural en la España Medieval: Actas del I Congreso Sobre Ecohistoria e Historia Medieval. Cáceres: Universidad De Extremadura, 2001.

Swyngedouw, E. Liquid Power: Contested Hydro-Modernities in Twentieth-Century Spain. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2015.

Wing, John T. Roots of Empire: Forests and State Power in Early Modern Spain, c.1500–1750. Leiden: Brill, 2015.

SCANDINAVIA

Arler, Finn, Rüdiger Mogens, Karl Sperling, Kristian Høyer Toft, and Bo Poulsen, eds. Ethics in Danish Energy Policy. Abingdon, Oxon, U.K.: Routledge, 2020.

Grendstad, Gunnar. Unique Environmentalism: A Comparative Perspective. New York: Springer, 2006.

Ibsen, Hilde. Menneskets Fotavtrykk: En Økologisk Verdenshistorie. [Oslo]: Tano Aschehoug, 1997.

Kander, Astrid. Economic Growth, Energy Consumption and CO2 Emissions in Sweden 1800–2000. Lund Studies in Economic History. Lund, Sweden: Almqvist and Wiksell International, 2002.

Kjærgaard, Thorkild. The Danish Revolution, 1500–1800: An Ecohistorical Interpretation. David Hohnen, tr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Kuisma, Juha. Tuli Leivän Antaa: Suomen Ekohistoria. Helsinki: Gummerus, 1997.

Karen Oslund. Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011.

Pál, Viktor, Tuomas Räsänen, and Mikko Saikku, eds. Green Development or Greenwashing? Environmental Histories of Finland. Winwick, Cambridgeshire, U.K.: White Horse Press, 2023.

Ruuskanen, Esa, Paula Schönach, and Kari Väyrynen. Suomen Ympäristöhistoria 1700–Luvulta Nykyaikaan. Tampere, Finland: Vastapaino, 2021.

Sörlin, Sverker, and Anders Öckerman. Jorden en Ö: En Global Miljöhistoria. Stockholm: Natur och Kultur, 1998.

GERMANY

Ault, Julia E. Saving Nature Under Socialism: Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968–1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Below, Stefan von, and Stefan Breit. Wald — von der Gottesgabe zum Privateigentum: Gerichtliche Konflikte zwischen Landesherren und Untertanen um den Wald in der fruehen Neuzeit. Quellen und Forschungen zur Agrargeschichte, 43. Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius 1998.

Bergmeier, Monika. Umweltgeschichte der Boomjahre 1949–1973: Das Beispiel Bayern. New York: Waxmann, 2002.

Blackbourn, David. The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany. New York: Norton, 2006.

Bramwell, Anna. Blood and Soil: Richard Walther Darré and Hitler's "Green Party." Abbotsbrook, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire: Kensal Press, 1985.

Brüggemeier, Franz-Josef, Mark Cioc, and Thomas Zeller, eds. How Green Were the Nazis? Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005.

Chaney, Sandra. Nature of the Miracle Years: Conservation in West Germany, 1945–1975. New York: Berghahn Books, 2008.

Cioc, Mark. The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815–2000. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002.

Dominick, Raymond H. The Environmental Movement in Germany: Prophets and Pioneers, 1871–1971. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

Eckert, Astrid M. West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Goodbody, Axel, ed. The Culture of German Environmentalism: Anxieties, Visions, Realities. New York: Berghahn Books, 2002.

Hermand, Jost. Grüne Utopien in Deutschland: zur Geschichte des Ökologischen Bewusstseins. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1991.

Hünemörder, Kai F. Die Frühgeschichte der globalen Umweltkrise und die Formierung der deutschen Umweltpolitik (1950–1973). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004.

Klein, Markus, and Juergen W. Falter. Der Lange Weg der Grünen. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2003.

Kuester, Hansjoerg. Geschichte des Waldes. Von der Urzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Muenchen: C.H. Beck, 1998.

Lekan, Thomas M. Imagining the Nation in Nature: Landscape Preservation and German Identity, 1885–1945. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Lekan, Thomas M. Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Lekan, Thomas M., and Thomas Zeller. Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005.

Markham, William T. Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany: Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. New York: Berghahn Books, 2008.

Mauch, Christof, ed. Nature in German History. New York: Berghahn Books, 2004.

Milder, Stephen. Greening Democracy: The Anti-Nuclear Movement and Political Environmentalism in West Germany and Beyond, 1968–1983. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Nyhart, Lynn K. Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Phillips, Denise. Acolytes of Nature: Defining Natural Science in Germany, 1770–1850. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Radkau, Joachim, and Frank Uekötter, eds. Naturschutz und Nationalsozialismus. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2003.

Rollins, William H. A Greener Vision of Home: Cultural Politics and Environmental Reform in the German Heimatschutz Movement, 1904–1918. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.

Sieferle, Rolf Peter. Fortschrittsfeinde? Opposition gegen Technik und Industrie von der Romantik bis zur Gegenwart. Munich: C.H. Beck, 1984.

Treitel, Corinna. Eating Nature in Modern Germany: Food, Agriculture, and Environment, c. 1870 to 2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Uekötter, Frank. The Age of Smoke: Environmental Policy in Germany and the United States, 1880–1970. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.

Warde, Paul. Ecology, Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Wey, Klaus-Georg. Umweltpolitik in Deutschland: kurze Geschichte des Umweltschutzes in Deutschland seit 1900. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1982.

Williams, John A. Turning to Nature in Germany: Hiking, Nudism, and Conservation, 1900–1940. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007.

Zeller, Thomas. Driving Germany: The Landscape of the German Autobahn, 1930–1970. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007.

THE ALPS

Groß, Robert. Die Beschleunigung der Berge: Eine Umweltgeschichte des Wintertourismus in Vorarlberg/Österreich (1920–2010). Wien: Böhlau, 2019.

Kupper, Patrick. Creating Wilderness: A Transnational History of the Swiss National Park. New York: Berghahn Books, 2014.

Netting, Robert. Balancing on an Alp: Ecological Change and Continuity in a Swiss Mountain Community. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Pfister, Christian, ed. Am Tag danach: zur Bewältigung von Naturkatastrophen in der Schweiz 1500–2000. Bern: Haupt, 2002.

Pfister, Christian, ed. Das 1950er Syndrom: der Weg in die Konsumgesellschaft. 2nd ed. Bern: Haupt, 1996.

Pfister, Christian. Wetternachhersage: 500 Jahre Klimavariationen und Naturkatastrophen (1496–1995). Bern: Haupt, 1999.

Viazzo, Pier Paolo. Upland Communities: Environment, Population, and Social Structure in the Alps since the Sixteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Walter, François, and Jean François Bergier. Les Suisses et l'environnement: une histoire du rapport à la nature du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours. Genève: Zoé, 1990.

EASTERN EUROPE AND THE BALKANS

Coen, Deborah R. Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Dorondel, Stefan, and Şerban, Stelu, eds., A New Ecological Order: Development and the Transformation of Nature in Eastern Europe. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022.

Olšáková, Doubravka, and Janáč Jiří. The Cult of Unity: The Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature in Czechoslovakia, 1948–1964. Praha: Academia, 2021.

Petrić, Hrvoje, and Ivana Žebec Šilj, eds. Environmentalism in Central and Southeastern Europe: Historical Perspectives. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2017.

Schwartz, Katrina Z. S. Nature and National Identity after Communism: Globalizing the Ethnoscape. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006.

ITALY

Appuhn, Karl Richard. A Forest on the Sea: Environmental Expertise in Renaissance Venice. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

Armiero, Marco. Il territorio come risorsa: comunità, economie e istituzioni nei boschi abruzzesi (1806–1860). Napoli: Liguori, 1999.

Armiero, Marco, and Marcus Hall, eds. Nature and History in Modern Italy. Athens, Ohio: University Press, 2010.

Armiero, Marco, Roberta Biasillo, and Wilko Graf von Hardenberg. La natura del duce: Una storia ambientale del fascismo. Torino, Italy: Einaudi Storia, 2022.

Barca, Stefania. Enclosing Water: Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean Valley, 1796–1916. Cambridge: White Horse Press, 2010.

Barron, Patrick, and Anna Re, eds. Italian Environmental Literature: An Anthology. New York: Italica Press, 2003.

Bevilacqua, Piero. Tra natura e storia: ambiente, economie, risorse in Italia. Roma: Donzelli, 1996.

Caruso, Valerio. Swamp of East Naples: Environmental History of an Unruly Suburb. Cambridge, U.K.: White Horse Press, 2021.

Della Porta, Donatella, Mario Diani, and Massimiliano Andretta. Movimenti senza protesta? l'ambientalismo in Italia. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2004.

Della Seta, Roberto. La difesa dell'ambiente in Italia: storia e cultura del movimento ecologista. Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2000

Pedrotti, Franco. Il fervore dei pochi: Il movimento protezionistico italiano dal 1943 al 1971. Trento: Temi, 1998.

Piccioni, Luigi. Il volto amato della patria: Il primo movimento per la protezione della natura in Italia, 1880–1934. Camerino: Università degli studi, 1999. In English translation: Piccioni, Luigi. The Beloved Face of the Country The First Movement for Nature Protection in Italy, 1880–1934. Translated by James Sievert. Winwick, Cambridgeshire, U.K.: White Horse Press, 2020.

Poggio, Andrea. Ambientalismo: Storia dei movimenti e delle idee. Milano: Bibliografica, 1996.

Serneri, Simone Neri. Incorporare la natura: Storie ambientali del novecento. Rome: Carocci, 2005.

Sievert, James R. The Origins of Nature Conservation in Italy. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.

Varni, Angelo. Storia dell'ambiente in Italia tra Ottocento e Novecento. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1999.

Wickham, Chris. The Mountains and the City: The Tuscan Apennines in the Early Middle Ages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.

RUSSIA AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION

Agyeman, Julian, and Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, eds. Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009.

Bonhomme, Brian. Forests, Peasants, and Revolutionaries: Forest Conservation and Organization in Soviet Russia, 1917–1929. Boulder, Colo.: East European Monographs, 2005.

Breyfogle, Nicholas B., ed. Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet History. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018.

Dronin, N. M., and Edward G. Bellinger. Climate Dependence and Food Problems in Russia, 1900–1990: The Interaction of Climate and Agricultural Policy and Their Effect on Food Problems. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2005.

Ely, Christopher. This Meager Nature: Landscape and National Identity in Imperial Russia. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002.

Goryashko, Alexandra. The Isles of the Blessed: The History of Biological Stations of the White and Barents Seas. Moscow: Paulsen Publishing, 2021.

Hartley, Janet M. The Volga: A History of Russia’s Greatest River. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021.

Jones, Ryan Tucker. Empire of Extinction: Russians and the North Pacific's Strange Beast of the Sea, 1741–1867. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Josephson, Paul R., et al.. An Environmental History of Russia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Moon, David. The Plough That Broke the Steppes: Agriculture and Environment on Russia's Grasslands, 1700–1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Moon, David, Nicholas B Breyfogle, and Alexandra Bekasova, eds. Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History. Cambridgeshire: White Horse Press, 2021.

Peterson, Maya K. Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia's Aral Sea Basin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Roe, Alan D. Into Russian Nature: Tourism, Environmental Protection, and National Parks in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Weiner, Douglas R. Models of Nature: Ecology, Conservation, and Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.

Zeisler-Vralsted, Dorothy. Rivers, Memory, and Nation-Building: A History of the Volga and Mississippi Rivers. New York: Berghahn, 2015.

THE MEDITERRANEAN

Armiero, Marco. Views from the South: Environmental Stories from the Mediterranean World (19th–20th Centuries). Naples: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto de Studi sulle Società del Mediterraneo, 2006.

Braudel, Fernand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

Centemeri, Laura, and Xavier Daumalin, eds. Pollutions industrielles et espaces méditerranéens, XVIIIe-XXIe siècle. Paris: Karthala, 2015.

Duffy, Andrea E. Nomad's Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019.

Grove, Alfred T. and Oliver Rackham. The Nature of Mediterranean Europe: An Ecological History New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.

Hughes, J. Donald. Ecology in Ancient Civilizations. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1975.

Hughes, J. Donald. Pan's Travail: Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

Queiroz, Ana Isabel, and Simon Preston Pooley, eds. Histories of Bioinvasions in the Mediterranean. Berlin: Springer, 2018.

Segalla, Spencer D. Empire and Catastrophe: Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020.

 

Africa

Adams, Jonathan S. and Thomas McShane. The Myth of Wild Africa: Conservation without Illusion. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Anderson, David, and Richard Grove, eds. Conservation in Africa: People, Policies, and Practice. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Beinart, William. The Rise of Conservation in South Africa: Settlers, Livestock, and the Environment 1770–1950. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Beinart, William, and JoAnn McGregor. Social History & African Environments. Oxford: James Currey, 2003.

Beinart, William, and Peter Coates. Environment and History: The Taming of Nature in the USA and South Africa. London: Routledge, 1995.

Bennett, B.M., and Kruger, F.J. Forestry and Water Conservation in South Africa: History, Science, Policy. Canberra: ANU Press, 2015.

Brooks, George E. Landlords and Strangers: Ecology, Society, and Trade in Western Africa, 1000–1630. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993.

Brownell, Emily. Gone to Ground: A History of Environment and Infrastructure in Dar es Salaam. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020.

Carruthers, Jane. The Kruger National Park: A Social and Political History. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1995.

Carruthers, Jane. National Park Science: A Century of Research in South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Cock, Jacklyn and Eddie Koch, eds. Going Green: People, Politics, and the Environment in South Africa. Capetown: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Conte, Christopher A. Highland Sanctuary: Environmental History in Tanzania's Usambara Mountains. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004.

Crummey, Donald. Farming and Famine: Landscape Vulnerability in Northeast Ethiopia, 1889–1991. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018.

Davis, Diana K. Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007.

Derr, Jennifer L. The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019.

Dlamini, Jacob. Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2020.

Dovers, Stephen, Ruth Edgecombe, and Bill Guest, eds. South Africa's Environmental History: Cases and Comparisons. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002.

Giblin, James Leonard. The Politics of Environmental Control in Northeastern Tanzania, 1840–1940. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.

Hamilton, A. C. Environmental History of East Africa: A Study of the Quaternary. New York: Academic Press, 1982.

Hecht, Gabrielle. Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2012.

Hoag, Heather J. Developing the Rivers of East and West Africa: An Environmental History. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.

Hughes, David McDermott. From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a Southern African Frontier. Seattle: University of Washington Press in association with Weaver Press, Harare, 2006.

Jacobs, Nancy J. Environment, Power, and Injustice: A South African History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Jacobs, Nancy Joy. Birders of Africa: History of a Network. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.

Kjekshus, Helge. Landlords and Strangers: Ecology, Society, and Trade in Western Africa, 1000–1630.  London: Heinemann, 1977.

Kull, Christian A. Isle of Fire: The Political Ecology of Landscape Burning in Madagascar. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Maddox, Gregory H., I.N. Kimambo, and James L. Giblin, eds. Custodians of the Land: Environment and History in Tanzania. London and Athens, OH: James Currey, and Ohio University Press, 1996.

McCann, James. Green Land, Brown Land, Black Band: An Environmental History of Africa, 1800–1990. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1999.

McCann, James. Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500–2000. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005.

McCann, James C. From Poverty to Famine in Northeast Ethiopia: A Rural History 1900–1935. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987.

McCann, James C. People of the Plow: An Agricultural History of Ethiopia, 1800–1990. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.

Mitman, Gregg. Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia. New York: New Press, 2021.

Mulwafu, Wapulumuka Oliver. Conservation Song: A History of Peasant-State Relations and the Environment in Malawi, 1860–2000. Cambridge: White Horse Press, 2011.

Neumann, Roderick P. Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Pooley, Simon. Burning Table Mountain: An Environmental History of Fire on the Cape Peninsula. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave, 2014.

Ramutsindela, Maano. Parks and People in Postcolonial Societies: Experiences in Southern Africa. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2004.

Schauer, Jeff. Wildlife between Empire and Nation in Twentieth-Century Africa. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Schroeder, Richard A. Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in the Gambia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Shetler, Jan Bender. Imagining Serengeti: A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007.

Showers, Kate B. Imperial Gullies: Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005.

Sunseri, Thaddeus Raymond. Wielding the Ax: State Forestry and Social Conflict in Tanzania, 1820–2000. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009.

Swart, Sandra Scott. Riding High: Horses, Humans and History in South Africa. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2010.

Tropp, Jacob A. Natures of Colonial Change: Environmental Relations in the Making of the Transkei. New African History Series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006.

Webb, James L.A., Jr. Desert Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change along the Western Sahel, 1600–1850. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.

Wynn, Graeme, Nancy Joy Jacobs, and Jane Carruthers, eds. Environment, Power, and Justic: Southern African Histories. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022.

Weber, William, Lee J. T. White, Amy Vedder, and Lisa Naughton-Treves, eds. African Rain Forest Ecology and Conservation: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.

 

Middle East

Ayalon, Yaron. Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire: Plague, Famine, and Other Misfortunes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Barak, On. Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020.

Bulliet, Richard W. Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran: A Moment in World History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.

Christensen, Peter. Decline of Iranshahr: Irrigation and Environments in the History of the Middle East, 500 B.C. to 1500 A.D. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993.

Davis, Diana K., and Edmund Burke, eds. Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2011.

Derr, Jennifer L. The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2019.

Hillel, Daniel. Rivers of Eden: The Struggle for Water and the Quest for Peace in the Middle East. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

İnal, Onur, and Yavuz Köse, eds. Seeds of Power: Explorations in Ottoman Environmental History. Winwick, Cambridgeshire, U.K.: White Horse Press, 2019.

Jones, Toby Craig. Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010.

Koch, Natalie. Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia. London: Verso, 2022.

Mikhail, Alan. The Animal in Ottoman Egypt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Mikhail, Alan. Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Mikhail, Alan. Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Mikhail, Alan. Under Osman's Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Mitchell, Timothy. Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Rosen, Arlene Miller. Civilizing Climate: Social Responses to Climate Change in the Ancient Near East. Plymouth: AltaMira Press, 2007.

Tal, Alon. Pollution in a Promised Land: An Environmental History of Israel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Tuçaltan Gül. Metabolic Urbanization of Waste in Ankara: A Governance Perspective. Delft: Uitgeverij Eburon, 2018.

Varlik, Nükhet. Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347–1600. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

White, Sam. The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Wight, David M. Oil Money: Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of US Empire, 1967–1988. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2021.

 

South Asia

Agrawal, Arun. Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.

Amrith, Sunil S. Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History. New York: Basic Books, 2018.

Arnold, David, and Ramachandra Guha, eds. Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental History of South Asia. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Arnold, David. The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800–1856. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006.

Arnold, David. Toxic Histories: Poison and Pollution in Modern India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Azad, Arezou. Sacred Landscape in Medieval Afghanistan: Revisiting the Fada'il-i Balkh. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Baker, Mark. The Kuhls of Kangra: Community-Managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.

Bhattacharyya, Debjani. Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Cederlöf, Gunnel, and K. Sivaramakrishnan, eds. Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006.

Chanchani, Nachiket. Mountain Temples & Temple Mountains: Architecture, Religion, and Nature in the Central Himalayas. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019.

Chaudhuri, B. B., and Arun Bandopadhyay, eds. Tribes, Forest, and Social Formation in Indian History. New Delhi: Manohar, 2004.

Damodaran, Vinita, Anna Winterbottom, and Alan Lester, eds. The East India Company and the Natural World. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Das, Pallavi V. Colonialism, Development, and the Environment: Railways and Deforestation in British India, 1860–1884. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Fisher, Michael Herbert. An Environmental History of India: From Earliest Times to the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Gadgil, Madhav, and Ramachandra Guha. This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Grove, Richard H. Ecology, Climate and Empire: The Indian Legacy in Global Environmental History, 1400–1940. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998

Grove, Richard, Vinita Damodaran, and Satpal Sangwan, eds. Nature and the Orient: The Environmental History of South and Southeast Asia. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Guha, Ramachandra. The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Herbert, Eugenia W. Flora's Empire: British Gardens in India. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Hill, Christopher V. River of Sorrow: Environment and Social Control in Riparian North India, 1770–1994. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan, 1997.

Hughes, Julie E. Animal Kingdoms: Hunting, the Environment, and Power in the Indian Princely States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013.

Lewis, Michael L. Inventing Global Ecology: Tracking the Biodiversity Ideal in India, 1947–1997. Ohio University Press series in ecology and history. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004.

Philip, Kavita. Civilizing Natures: Race, Resources, and Modernity in Colonial South India. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004.

Rangan, Haripriya. Of Myths and Movements: Rewriting Chipko into Himalayan History. New York: Verso, 2000.

Rangarajan, Mahesh, and K. Sivaramakrishnan, eds. Shifting Ground: People, Mobility, and Animals in India's Environmental Histories. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Ray, Sugata. Climate Change and the Art of Devotion: Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550–1850. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019.

Saikia, Arupjyoti. Forests and Ecological History of Assam, 1826–2000. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Saravanan, Velayutham. Environmental History of Modern India: Land, Population, Technology and Development. New Delhi: Bloomsbury India, 2022.

Satya, Laxman D. Ecology, Colonialism, and Cattle: Central India in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Sen, Sudipta. Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

Trautmann, Thomas R. Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2015.

Tucker, Richard P. A Forest History of India. New Delhi: SAGE, 2012.

 

East Asia

Arch, Jakobina K. Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018.

Avenell, Simon Andrew. Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2017.

Batten, Bruce Loyd, and Philip C. Brown, eds. Environment and Society in the Japanese Islands: From Prehistory to the Present. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2015.

Bello, David Anthony. Across Forest, Steppe and Mountain: Environment, Identity and Empire in Qing China's Borderlands. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Driscoll, Mark. The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.

Elvin, Mark. The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

Elvin, Mark, and Cuirong Liu. Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Fedman, David. Seeds of Control: Japan's Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020.

George, Timothy S. Minamata: Pollution and Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Grove, Richard H., and John Chappell, eds. El Niño: History and Crisis: Studies from the Asia-Pacific Region. Cambridge, UK: White Horse Press, 2000.

Gunn, Simon, and Susan C. Townsend. Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Karan, Pradyumna P., and Unryu Suganuma, eds. Local Environmental Movements: A Comparative Study of the United States and Japan. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008.

Lander, Brian. The King’s Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021.

Lavelle, Peter B. Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.

Lee, Yok-shiu F., and Alvin Y So. Asia's Environmental Movements: Comparative Perspectives. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.

Liu, Cuirong, ed. Environmental History in East Asia: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2016.

Liu, Cuirong, and James Beattie, eds. Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia: Perspectives from Environmental History. Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Liu, Cuirong, Andrea Janku, and David Allen Pietz, eds. Landscape Change and Resource Utilization in East Asia: Perspectives from Environmental History. New York: Routledge, 2018.

Liu, Cuirong, and Micah S Muscolino, eds. Perspectives on Environmental History in East Asia: Changes in the Land, Water and Air. New York: Routledge, 2021.

Marks, Robert. Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Miller, Ian Jared, Julia Adeney Thomas, and Brett L. Walker, eds. Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2013.

Miller, Ian Matthew. Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020.

Muscolino, Micah S. Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2009.

Muscolino, Micah S. The Ecology of War in China: Henan Province, the Yellow River, and Beyond, 1938–1950. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Nappi, Carla Suzan. The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009.

Shapiro, Judith. Mao's War against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Stolz, Robert. Bad Water: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870–1950. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.

Totman, Conrad. The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Preindustrial Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Walker, Brett L. The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590–1800. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Walker, Brett L. Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010.

Weller, Robert P. Discovering Nature: Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Wilson, Roderick I. Turbulent Streams: An Environmental History of Japan's Rivers, 1600–1930. Leiden: Brill, 2021.

Wu, Shellen Xiao. Empires of Coal: Fueling China's Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860–1920. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2015.

Zhang, Jiayan. Coping with Calamity: Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736–1949. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2014.

Zhang, Ling. The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048–1128. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Zhang, Meng. Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021.

 

Southeast Asia

Aso, Michitake. Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897–1975. Chapel Hill: University of North Caroline Press, 2018.

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.

Boomgaard, Peter. Frontiers of Fear: Tigers and People in the Malay World, 1600—1950. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.

Boomgaard, Peter, ed. Paper Landscapes: Explorations in the Environmental History of Indonesia. Leiden, Netherlands: KITLV Press, 1997.

Boomgaard, P. A World of Water: Rain, Rivers and Seas in Southeast Asian Histories. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2007.

Boomgaard, Peter, David Henley, and Manon Osseweijer, eds. Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2005.

Bryant, Raymond L. The Political Ecology of Forestry in Burma, 1824–1994. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997.

Forsyth, Tim, and Andrew Walker. Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers: The Politics of Environmental Knowledge in Northern Thailand. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008.

Grove, Richard, Vinita Damodaran, and Satpal Sangwan, eds. Nature and the Orient: The Environmental History of South and Southeast Asia. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Peluso, Nancy Lee. Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

West, Paige. Conservation Is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.

 

Australia, New Zealand, and Polynesia

Beattie, James, Emily O'Gorman, and Matthew Henry, eds. Climate, Science, and Colonization: Histories from Australia and New Zealand. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Bennett, Judith A. Pacific Forest: A History of Resource Control and Contest in the Solomon Islands, c. 1800–1997. Cambridge, England: White Horse Press, 2000.

Grove, Richard H., and John Chappell, eds. El Niño: History and Crisis: Studies from the Asia-Pacific Region.  Cambridge, UK: White Horse Press, 2000.

Karskens, Grace. People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2020.

McNeill, John Robert, ed. Environmental History in the Pacific World. Burlington, VT.: Ashgate, 2001.

Pawson, Eric, and Tom Brooking, eds. Environmental Histories of New Zealand. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Sivasundaram, Sujit. Nature and the Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795–1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Strang, Veronica. Gardening the World: Agency, Identity and the Ownership of Water. New York: Berghahn Books, 2009.

Teaiwa, Katerina Martina. Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014.

Young, Ann. Environmental Change in Australia Since 1788. 2nd ed. Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press, 2000.

 

North America

See also United States Environmental Bibliography

Armstrong, Christopher, H. V. Nelles, and Matthew D. Evenden. The River Returns: An Environmental History of the Bow. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009.

Bonnelle, Jennifer L. Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto's Don River Valley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.

Brower, Jennifer.  Lost Tracks: Buffalo National Park, 1909–1939. Edmonton: AU Press, 2008.

Campbell, Claire Elizabeth. Shaped by the West Wind: Nature and History in Georgian Bay. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005.

Castonguay, Stéphane, and Michèle Dagenais, eds. Metropolitan Natures: Environmental Histories of Montreal. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011.

Clarke, John. The Ordinary People of Essex: Environment, Culture, and Economy on the Frontier of Upper Canada. Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.

Colpitts, George. Game in the Garden: A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada to 1940. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2002.

Cruikshank, Julie. Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005.

Evans, Sterling. The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty-ninth Parallel. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.

Evenden, Matthew D. Fish versus Power: An Environmental History of the Fraser River. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Dorsey, Kurkpatrick. Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy: U.S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998.

Hatvany, Matthew G. Marshlands: Four Centuries of Environmental Change on the Shores of the St. Lawrence. Sainte-Foy, Québec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 2003.

Hubbard, Jennifer Mary. A Science on the Scales: The Rise of Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Biology, 1898–1939. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.

Jones, Karen. Wolf Mountains: A History of Wolves Along the Great Divide. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2002.

Keeling, Arn, John Sandlos, eds. Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics, and Memory. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2015.

Loo, Tina. States of Nature: Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the Twentieth Century. Vancouver: UBC Press; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006.

Massell, David Perera. Quebec Hydropolitics: The Peribonka Concessions of the Second World War. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011.

MacDonald, Edward, Irené Novaczek, Joshua MacFadyen, eds. Time and a Place: An Environmental History of Prince Edward Island. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016.

McKay, Marylin Jean. Picturing the Land: Narrating Territories in Canadian Landscape Art, 1500–1950. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011.

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

Murton, James. Creating a Modern Countryside: Liberalism and Land Resettlement in British Columbia. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007.

Nadasdy, Paul. Hunters and Bureaucrats: Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003

Parsons, Christopher M. A Not-so-New World: Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2018.

Pyne, Stephen J. Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007.

Rutherford, Stephanie. Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin: Wolves and the Making of Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022.

Sandlos, John. Hunters at the Margin: Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007.

Scott, Dayna Nadine. Our Chemical Selves: Gender, Toxics, and Environmental Health. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2015.

Turkel, William J. The Archive of Place: Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007.

Tymstra, Cordy. The Chinchaga Firestorm: When the Moon and Sun Turned Blue. University of Alberta Press, 2015.

 

Latin America and Caribbean

Barandiarán, Javiera. Science and Environment in Chile: The Politics of Expert Advice in a Neoliberal Democracy. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2018.

Boyer, Christopher R., ed. Land between Waters: Environmental Histories of Modern Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012.

Boyer, Christopher R. Political Landscapes: Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.

Brailovsky, Antonio Elio. Historia Ecológica de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Kaicron, 2012.

Brailovsky, Antonio Elio. Historia Ecológica de Iberoamérica: De Los Mayas Al Quijote. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Le Monde diplomatique, El Diplo, 2006.

Brailovsky, Antonio Elio, and Dina Foguelman. Memoria Verde: Historia Ecológica de la Argentina. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1991.

Brannstrom, Christian, ed. Territories, Commodities and Knowledges: Latin American Environmental History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2004.

Carey, Mark. In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Andean Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Carse, Ashley. Beyond the Big Ditch: Politics, Ecology, and Infrastructure at the Panama Canal. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014.

Church, Christopher M. Paradise Destroyed: Catastrophe and Citizenship in the French Caribbean. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

Crawford, Sharika D. The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making. Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

Dean, Warren. With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

De la Torre, Oscar. The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835–1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

Diaz-Briquets, Sergio, and Jorge F. Pérez-López. Conquering Nature: The Environmental Legacy of Socialism in Cuba. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.

Dutra e Silva, Sandro. No Oeste, a terra e o céu: a expansão da fronteira agrícola no Brasil central. Rio de Janeiro: Mauad X, 2017.

Eaglin, Jennifer. Sweet Fuel: A Political and Environmental History of Brazilian Ethanol. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Evans, Sterling. Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880–1950. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007.

Few, Martha, and Zeb Tortorici, eds. Centering Animals in Latin American History. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013.

Funes Monzote, Reinaldo. From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History Since 1492. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.

Gänger, Stefanie. A Singular Remedy: Cinchona across the Atlantic World, 1751–1820. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

González Jácome, Alba, and Bernardo García Martínez. Estudios sobre historia y ambiente en America. I. Argentina, Bolivia, México, Paraguay. Mexico: Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia, 1999.

García Martínez, Bernardo, and María del Rosario Prieto. Estudios sobre historia y ambiente en America. II: Norteamérica, Sudamérica y el Pacífico. México, D.F.: Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia, 2002.

Hecht, Susanna B., and Alexander Cockburn. The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon. New York: Verso, 1989.

Hochstetler, Kathryn, and Margaret E. Keck. Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.

Johnson, Sherry. Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

Klubock, Thomas Miller. La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile's Frontier Territory. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.

Leonardi, Victor. Os historiadores e os rios: natureza e ruína na Amazónia brasileira. Brasilia: Editora Universidade de Brasilia, 1999.

Li, Fabiana. Unearthing Conflict: Corporate Mining, Activism, and Expertise in Peru. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.

Lindsay-Poland, John. Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S.in Panama. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.

Mathews, Andrew S. Instituting Nature: Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011.

McCook, Stuart. States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.

Miller, Shawn William. Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.

Miller, Shawn William. An Environmental History of Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

McNeill, John Robert. Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Nobbs-Thiessen, Ben. Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present (Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

Olarte, Mauricio Neto. Remedios para el Imperio: Historia Natural y la apropiacion del Nuevo Mundo. Bogota, Colombia: Instituto Colombiano de Antropologia e Historia, 2000.

Orlove, Ben. Lines in the Water: Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Pádua, José Augusto. Um sopro de destruição: pensamento político e crítica ambiental no Brasil escravista, 1786–1888. Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar, 2002.

Raby, Megan. American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

Radding, Cynthia. Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.

Radding, Cynthia. Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700–1850. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.

Richardson, Bonham C. Igniting the Caribbean's Past: Fire in British West Indian History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Robins, Nicholas A. Mercury, Mining, and Empire: The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011.

Rogers, Thomas D. The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Rohland, Eleonora. Entangled Histories and the Environment? Socio-Environmental Transformations in the Caribbean, 1492–1800. New Orleans, La.: University of New Orleans Press, 2021. Also Rohland, Eleonora. ¿Historia Entrelazada y el Medio Ambiente? Transformaciones Socioambientales en el Caribe, 1492–1800. Tr. by Erika Abril. Bielefeld, Ger.: Kipu-Verlag, 2020.

Santiago, Myrna I. The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900–1938. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Schwartz, Stuart B. Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.

Slater, Candace. Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon. Berkeley: University of California, Press, 2002.

Soluri, John. Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.

Topik, Steven, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr L. Frank, eds. From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006.

Quintero Toro, Camilo. Birds of Empire, Birds of Nation: A History of Science, Economy, and Conservation in United States-Colombia Relations. Bogotá, Colombia: Universidad de los Andes, 2012.

Tortolero, Alejandro. Notarios y agricultores: crecimiento y atraso en el campo mexicano, 1780–1920: propiedad, crédito, irrigación y conflictos sociales en el agro mexicano. México, D.F.: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa, 2008.

Vergara Germán. Fueling Mexico: Energy and Environment, 1850–1950. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Vivanco, Luis R. Green Encounters: Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rica. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006.

Wakild, Emily. Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico's National Parks, 1910–1940. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011.

Watts, David. The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture, and Environmental Change Since 1492. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

 

Oceans, the Poles, and Climate

Armitage, David, Alison Bashford, and Sujit Sivasundaram, eds. Oceanic Histories. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Brooke, John L. Climate Change and the Course of Global History: A Rough Journey. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Davis, Mike. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nño Famines and the Making of the Third World. New York: Verso, 2001.

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.

Dry, Sarah. Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Fagan, Brian. Floods, Famines and Emperors: El Niño and the Fate of Civilizations. New York: Basic Books, 1999.

Fagan, Brian. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300–1850. New York: Basic Books, 2000.

Fagan, Brian. The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization. New York: Basic Books, 2004.

Howkins, Adrian. The Polar Regions: An Environmental History. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2016.

Kaganovsky, Lilya, Scott Mackenzie, Anna Westerstahl Stenport, eds. Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019.

Karlsdóttir, Hrefna M. Fishing on Common Grounds: The Consequences of Unregulated Fisheries of North Sea Herring in the Postwar Period. Göteborg: Ekonomisk-Historiska Institutionen vid Göteborgs Universitet, 2005.

Máñez, Kathleen Schwerdtner, and Bo Poulsen, eds. Perspectives on Oceans Past. Dordrecht: Springer, 2016.

Oreskes, Naomi. Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know About the Ocean. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Payne, Brian J. Fishing a Borderless Sea: Environmental Territorialism in the North Atlantic, 1818–1910. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2010.

Pilkey, Orrin H., Norma J. Longo, William J. Neal, Nelson Rangel-Buitrago, Keith C. Pilkey, and Hannah L. Hayes. Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.

Poulsen, Bo. Dutch Herring: An Environmental History, c. 1600–1860. Amsterdam: Aksant, 2008.

Poulsen, Bo. Global Marine Science and Carlsberg: The Golden Connections of Johannes Schmidt (1877–1933). Leiden: Koninklijke Brill, 2016

Rozwadowski, Helen M., and David K. Van Keuren, eds. The Machine in Neptune's Garden: Historical Perspectives on Technology and the Marine Environment. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications/USA, 2004.

Rozwadowski. Helen M. Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans. London: Reaktion Books, 2018.

Stuhl, Andrew. Unfreezing the Arctic: Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.

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

Wintersteen, Kristin A. The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021.

 

History of Ideas of Nature

Acot, Pascal. Histoire de l'écologie. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1994. (Earlier edition published 1988.)

Bardi, Ugo. The Limits to Growth Revisited. New York: Springer, 2011.

Barnett, Lydia. After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.

Bashford, Alison, and Joyce E Chaplin. The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Rereading the Principle of Population. Titolo Collana. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012.

Chakrabarti, Pratik. Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.

Charbonnier, Pierre. Abondance et Liberté: Une Histoire Environnementale des Idées Politiques. Paris: La Découverte Editions, 2020.

Daston, Lorraine, and Fernando Vidal, eds. The Moral Authority of Nature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Drouin, Jean-Marc. L'écologie et Son Histoire: Réinventer la Nature. Paris: Flammarion, 1993. (Earlier edition published as Réinventer la Nature: L'Ecologie et Son Histoire, 1991.)

Foster, John Bellamy. Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000.

Jardine, Nicholas, Anne Secord, and Emma Spary, eds. Cultures of Natural History. Cambridge: University Press, 1996.

Macfarlane, Robert. Mountains of the Mind: How Desolate and Forbidding Heights Were Transformed into Experiences of Indomitable Spirit. New York: Pantheon, 2003.

Nicolson, Marjorie Hope. Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1959.

Rawson, Michael. The Nature of Tomorrow: A History of the Environmental Future. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021.

Schlögel, Karl. Im Raume lesen wir die Zeit: über Zivilisationsgeschichte und Geopolitik. München: Carl Hanser Verlag, 2003.

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