Black, Megan. The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018.
Chiang, Connie Y., ed. Nature Unfurled: Asian American Environmental Histories. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2024.
Connelly, Matthew James. Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.
Freund, Daniel. American Sunshine: Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Light. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Hoff, Derek S. The State and the Stork: The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Montrie, Chad. Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela. The Nature of Childhood: An Environmental History of Growing Up in America Since 1865. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2014.
Anderson, Jennifer L. Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.
Pyne, Stephen J. Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.
Steinberg, Ted. Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Hughes, J. Donald. American Indian Ecology. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1983.
Mann, Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. New York: Knopf, 2005.
Morrissey, Robert Michael. People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022.
Pauketat, Timothy R. Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Spence, Mark David. Dispossessing the Wilderness; Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Weisiger, Marsha L. Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009.
West, Elliott. The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
White, Richard. The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.
Anderson, Virginia DeJohn. Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Crosby, Alfred W. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Donahue, Brian. The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
Johnston, Katherine. The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Wickman, Thomas M. Snowshoe Country: An Environmental and Cultural History of Winter in the Early American Northeast. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
White, Sam. A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe's Encounter with North America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017.
Zilberstein, Anya. A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Archer, Kenna Lang. Unruly Waters: A Social and Environmental History of the Brazos River. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015.
Brooks, Karl Boyd. Public Power, Private Dams: The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006.
Fiege, Mark. Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999.
Hoornbeek, John A. Water Pollution Policies and the American States: Runaway Bureaucracies or Congressional Control? Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011.
McCool, Daniel. River Republic: The Fall and Rise of America's Rivers. New York Columbia University Press, 2012.
Melosi, Martin V. Precious Commodity: Providing Water for America’s Cities. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011.
Morris, Christopher. The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Pearson, Byron E. Still the Wild River Runs: Congress, the Sierra Club, and the Fight to Save Grand Canyon. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002.
Pearson, Byron E. Saving Grand Canyon: Dams, Deals, and a Noble Myth. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2019.
Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. New York: Viking Penguin, Inc., 1986.
Steinberg, Theodore. Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Vileisis, Ann. Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America's Wetlands. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1997.
White, Richard. The Organic Machine. New York: Hill and Wang, 1995.
Brock, Julia. Closed Seasons: The Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
Bender, Daniel E. The Animal Game: Searching for Wildness at the American Zoo. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016.
Brown, Jen Corrinne. Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015.
Chiang, Connie Y. Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008.
Colby, Jason M. Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean’s Greatest Predator. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Coleman, Jon T. Vicious: Wolves and Men in America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
Crawford, Sharika D. The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Davis, Jack E. The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird. New York: Liveright, 2023.
Flores, Dan L. Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History. New York: Basic Books, 2016.
Flores, Dan. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America. New York: W.W. Norton, 2023.
Isenberg, Andrew C. The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750–1920. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Jones, Jamie L. Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2023.
Nielsen, John. Condor: To the Brink and Back—the Life and Times of One Giant Bird. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.
Taylor, Joseph E. Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999.
AGRICULTURE AND FOOD
(See also WATER)
Brown, Dona. Back to the Land: The Enduring Dream of Self-Sufficiency in Modern America. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011.
Case, Andrew N. The Organic Profit: Rodale and the Making of Marketplace Environmentalism. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018.
Duffin, Andrew P. Plowed Under: Agriculture & Environment in the Palouse. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007.
Elmore, Bartow J. Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future. New York: Norton, 2021.
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.
Fitzgerald, Deborah. Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
Okie, Thomas. The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Smith-Howard, Kendra. Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History Since 1900. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Specht, Joshua. Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-To-Table History of How Beef Changed America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.
Stoll, Steven. Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Hill & Wang, 2002.
Fisher, Colin. Urban Green: Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Greene, Ann Norton. Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.
Gutfreund, Owen D. Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Hurley, Andrew. Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
Longhurst, James Lewis. Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015.
McCammack, Brian. Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017.
Melosi, Martin V. Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment: 1880-1980. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1981.
Melosi, Martin V. Precious Commodity: Providing Water for America's Cities. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011.
Melosi, Martin V. The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Robichaud, Andrew A. Animal City: The Domestication of America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019.
Wells, Christopher W. Car Country: An Environmental History. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012.
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.
Brady, Lisa M. War Upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes During the American Civil War. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012.
Browning, Judkin, and Timothy Silver. An Environmental History of the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Cashin, Joan E. War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Gowdy-Wygant, Cecilia. Cultivating Victory: The Women's Land Army and the Victory Garden Movement. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013.
Meier, Kathryn Shively. Nature's Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
Campanella, Thomas J. Republic of Shade: New England and the American Elm. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
Cumbler, John T. Reasonable Use: The People, the Environment, and the State, New England, 1790-1930. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Hutchins, Zachary McLeod. Inventing Eden: Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Stroud, Ellen. Nature Next Door: Cities and Trees in the American Northeast. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012.
Brock, Julia. Closed Seasons: The Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
Davis, Jack E. The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea. New York: Liveright, 2017.
Earley, Lawrence S. Looking for Longleaf: The Fall and Rise of an American Forest. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Gibson, Abraham. Feral Animals in the American South: An Evolutionary History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Gregg, Sara M. Managing the Mountains: Land Use Planning, the New Deal, and the Creation of a Federal Landscape in Appalachia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
Hollander, Gail M. Raising Cane in the 'Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Horowitz, Andy. Katrina: A History, 1915–2015. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020.
Kirby, Jack Temple. Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Manganiello, Christopher J. Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Maysilles, Duncan. Ducktown Smoke: The Fight Over One of the South's Greatest Environmental Disasters. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
McNeill, John Robert. Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Mittlefehldt, Sarah. Tangled Roots: The Appalachian Trail and American Environmental Politics. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013.
Silkenat, David. Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Silver, Timothy. Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Stewart, Mart A. “What Nature Suffers to Groe”: Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680–1920. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.
Swanson, Drew A. A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014.
Chiang, Connie Y. Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarceration. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: Norton, 1991.
DeBuys, William. Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985.
Dunaway, Finis. Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
Farmer, Jared. On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2008.
Fischer, John Ryan. Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai’i. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Flores, Dan. Caprock Canyonlands: Journeys into the Heart of the Southern Plains. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990.
Lockwood, Jeffrey Alan. Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect That Shaped the American Frontier. New York: Basic Books, 2004.
Moon, David. The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Morse, Kathryn. The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003.
Robbins, William G. Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940-2000. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004.
Sanders, Jeffrey C. Razing Kids: Youth, Environment, and the Postwar American West. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Strom, Claire. Profiting from the Plains: The Great Northern Railway and Corporate Development of the American West. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003.
West, Elliott. The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000.
Wilshire, Howard Gordon, Jane E. Nielson, and Richard W. Hazlett. The American West at Risk: Science, Myths, and Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Worster, Donald. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Dyl, Joanna Leslie. Seismic City: An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017.
Farmer, Jared. Trees in Paradise: A California History. New York: Norton, 2013.
Igler, David. Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850–1920. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
Isenberg, Andrew C. Mining California: An Ecological History. New York: Hill & Wang, 2005.
Tsu, Cecilia M. Garden of the World: Asian Immigrants and the Making of Agriculture in California's Santa Clara Valley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Bolster, W. Jeffrey. The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.
Cushman, Gregory T. Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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.
Garcia, Maria Cristina. State of Disaster: The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
Howe, Joshua P. Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014.
Igler, David. The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Martin, Laura J. Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2022.
Mitman, Gregg. The State of Nature: Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900-1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Walls, Laura Dassow. Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.
Coates, Peter. American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species: Strangers on the Land. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
Fowler, Robert Booth. The Greening of Protestant Thought. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
Hallock, Thomas. From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749-1826. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2003.
Hanson, Elizabeth. Animal Attractions: Nature on Display in American Zoos. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.
Hutchins, Zachary McLeod. Inventing Eden: Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Judd, Richard William. The Untilled Garden: Natural History and the Spirit of Conservation in America, 1740-1840. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory. Teaching Children Science: Hands-on Nature Study in North America, 1890-1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.
Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. 5th ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014.
Nicolson, Marjorie Hope. Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1959.
Pogue, Neall W. The Nature of the Religious Right: The Struggle between Conservative Evangelicals and the Environmental Movement. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2022.
Smith, Kimberly K. African American Environmental Thought. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007.
Smith, Michael L. Pacific Visions: California Scientists and the Environment, 1850-1915. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987.
Stoll, Mark. Protestantism, Capitalism, and Nature in America. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1997.
Stoll, Mark R. Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Valencius, Conevery Bolton. The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land. New York: Basic Books, 2002.
Walls, Laura Dassow. Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.
Wulf, Andrea. Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation. New York: Knopf, 2011.
Dunaway, Finis. Natural Visions The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Kollin, Susan. Nature's State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Mitman, Gregg. Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Chamberlin, Silas. On the Trail: A History of American Hiking. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.
Clayton, John. Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America's Public Lands. New York: Pegasus Books, 2019.
Davis, Janet M. The Gospel of Kindness: Animal Welfare and the Making of Modern America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Dean, Adam Wesley. An Agrarian Republic: Farming, Antislavery Politics, and Nature Parks in the Civil War Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Dorsey, Kurkpatrick. Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy: U. S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998.
Drake, Brian Allen. Loving Nature, Fearing the State: Environmentalism and Antigovernment Politics Before Reagan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013.
Dunaway, Finis. Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Ellingson, Stephen. To Care for Creation: The Emergence of the Religious Environmental Movement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Flippen, J. Brooks. Nixon and the Environment. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000.
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.
Mann, Charles C. The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World. New York: Knopf, 2018.
Oreskes, Naomi, and Erik M. Conway. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2010.
Paris, Leslie. Children’s Nature: The Rise of the American Summer Camp. New York: New York University Press, 2008.
Phillips, Sarah T. This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Powell, Miles A. Vanishing America: Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of Conservation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016.
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.
Rome, Adam. The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Rome, Adam. The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-in Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation. New York: Hill and Wang, 2013.
Sabin, Paul. The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble Over Earth's Future. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.
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Sutter, Paul S. Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002.
Warren, Louis S. The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
Gowdy-Wygant, Cecilia. Cultivating Victory: The Women's Land Army and the Victory Garden Movement. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013.
Schrepfer, Susan. Nature's Altars: Mountains, Gender, and American Environmentalism. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2005.
Unger, Nancy C. Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
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Giltner, Scott E. Hunting and Fishing in the New South: Black Labor and White Leisure After the Civil War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Hurley, Andrew. Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
Johnston, Katherine. The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Kahrl, Andrew W. The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.
McCammack, Brian. Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017.
McGurty, Eileen Maura. Transforming Environmentalism: Warren County, PCBs, and the Origins of Environmental Justice. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2007.
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Spears, Ellen Griffith. Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
Stewart, Mart A. "What Nature Suffers to Groe": life, labor, and landscape on the Georgia coast, 1680-1920. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.
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Huegel, Casey A. Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory: Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2024.
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Melosi, Martin V. Coping with Abundance: Energy and Environment in Industrial America. New York: Knopf, 1985.
Turner, James Morton. Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022.
Zaretsky, Natasha. Radiation Nation: Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
Blanc, Paul David. Fake Silk: The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.
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Davis, Devra Lee. When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution. New York: Basic Books, 2002.
Davis, Frederick Rowe. Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014.
Kinkela, David. DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
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Russell, Edmund. War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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Elmore, Bartow J. Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future. New York: Norton, 2021.
Fisher, Colin. Urban Green: Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Loomis, Erik. Empire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Steinberg, Theodore. Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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Harvey, Mark W.T. A Symbol of Wilderness: Echo Park and the American Conservation Movement. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.
Louter, David. Windshield Wilderness: Cars, Roads, and Nature in Washington's National Parks. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006.
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Stradling, David. Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007.
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