The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History

by Isenberg, Andrew C.

• ISBN13: 9780195324907
• ISBN10: 0195324900
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-10-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Andrew C. Isenberg is Professor of History at Temple University. He is the author of The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920, Mining California: An Ecological History, and Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life, and the editor of The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contributors

Introduction: A New Environmental History, Andrew C. Isenberg

Part I: Dynamic Environments and Cultures
1. Beyond Weather: The Culture and Politics of Climate History, Mark Carey
2. Animals and the Intimacy of History, Brett L. Walker
3. Beyond Virgin Soils: Disease as Environmental History, Linda Nash
4. Deserts, Diana K. Davis
5. Seas of Grass: Grasslands in World Environmental History, Andrew C. Isenberg
6. New Patterns in Old Places: Forest History for the Global Present, Emily Brock
7. The Tropics: A Brief History of an Environmental Imaginary, Paul S. Sutter

Part II: Knowing Nature
8. And All Was Light? Science and Environmental History, Michael Lewis
9. Toward an Environmental History of Technology, Sara B. Pritchard
10. New Chemical Bodies: Synthetic Chemicals, Regulation, and Human Health, Nancy Langston
11. Rethinking American Exceptionalism: Toward a Trans-National History of Parks, Wilderness, and Protected Areas, James Morton Turner
12. Restoration and the Search for Counter-Narratives, Marcus Hall
13. Region, Scenery, and Power: Cultural Landscapes in Environmental History, Thomas Lekan and Thomas Zeller

Part III: Working and Owning
14. A Metabolism of Society: Capitalism for Environmental Historians, Steven Stoll
15. Owning Nature: Towards an Environmental History of Private Property, Louis Warren
16. Work, Nature, and History: A Single Question, that Once Moved Like Light, Thomas G. Andrews
17. The Nature of Desire: Consumption in Environmental History, Matthew Klingle
18. Law and the Environment, Kathleen Brosnan
19. Confluences of Nature and Culture: Cities in Environmental History, Lawrence Culver

Part IV: Entangling Alliances
20. Race and Ethnicity in Environmental History, Connie Y. Chiang
21. Women and Gender: Useful Categories of Analysis in Environmental History, Nancy C. Unger
22. Conquest to Convalescence: Nature and Nation in United States History, William Deverell
23. Boundless Nature: Borders and the Environment in North America and Beyond, Andrew R. Graybill
24. Crossing Boundaries: The Environment in International Relations, Kurk Dorsey
25. The Politics of Nature, Frank Zelko
Index