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, andUrban Space.
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
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