OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental History is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	19
Unnatural Resources: Energy and Environmental Politics in Appalachia after the 1973 Oil Embargo. By Michael Camp. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. x + 192 pp. Notes and index.	11
Teaching as Scholarship; or, Looking at the Global History of Energy Transitions in a Classroom in San Diego	7
Frozen Over: Making Ice and Knowing Nature in Nineteenth-Century America	5
:The Nature of Endangerment in India: Tigers, ‘Tribes’, Extermination and Conservation, 1818–2020	5
:Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis	4
Back Matter	4
:Captivity’s Collections: Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade	4
:Sea Level: A History	4
:The First Atomic Bomb: The Trinity Site in New Mexico	4
New Scholarship	3
:The King’s Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire	3
Back Matter	3
Picturing Time in the Anthropocene: Anselm Kiefer’s Ages of the World (2014)	3
Shadow Places, Environmental Justice, and the Submergence of Pollution	3
:Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration	3
The Price of Adaptation: Visualizing Climate Change in the Greenland Sea, 1596–1800	2
Front Cover	2
Antebellum Black Climate Science: The Medical Geography and Emancipatory Politics of James McCune Smith and Martin Delany	2
Front Matter	2
Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border. By Frederico Freitas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xvi+312 pp. iIllustrations, maps, tables	2
From Temperature to Terroir: Wine Research at the University of California	2
:Making America’s Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands	2
Grinnell: America’s Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West. By John Taliaferro. New York: Liveright Publishing, 2019. xviii + 606 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliogr	2
Volkswagen in the Amazon: The Tragedy of Global Development in Modern Brazil. By Antoine Acker. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xiv + 314 pp. Illustrations, notes, maps, figures, ab	2

“And Yet It Makes Environmental Sense”: Beachfront Management and Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina	2
New Scholarship	2
The Transcendentalists and Their World. By Robert A. Gross. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021. xx+836 pp. Maps, notes, images, plates, index. US$40.00 (cloth); US$22.00 (paper); US$19	2
:American Energy Cinema	2
Capital Prospects: Jamaica and the Environmental History of Postwar Decolonization	2
:Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining	2
Entangled Extinction: Endangered Elephants and Extinct Mammoth Ivory in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries	2
:Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World’s Most Caffeine-Rich Plant	2
Resource or Relationship? Unpacking River Histories to Restore Wabanaki Livelihoods	2
Public, Private, and More: Beyond Binaries in Framing the History of Land Conservation	2
Uniquely Japan, Uniquely Alpine: The Transformation of the Kamikōchi Mountain Valley into an Alpine Landscape, 1892–1938	2
Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax: A 50th Anniversary Retrospective	2
Environments of Empire: Networks and Agents of Ecological Change. Edited by Ulrike Kirchberger and Brett M. Bennett. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. xi + 266 pp. Notes a	2
Front Cover	2
The Plague Cycle: The Unending War between Humanity and Infectious Disease. By Charles Kenny. New York: Scribner, 2021. xiv+304 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. US$28.00 (cloth);	1
Back Matter	1
Front Cover	1
:Mount Sacred: A Brief History of Holy Mountains since 1500	1
Stringfellow Acid Pits: The Toxic and Legal Legacy. By Brian Craig. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. 270 pp. Images, notes, and index. US$90.00 (cloth); US$24.95 (paper).	1
:A New Ecological Order: Development and the Transformation of Nature in Eastern Europe	1
Front Cover	1
:The Greater Plains: Rethinking a Region’s Environmental Histories	1
:The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis	1
Front Matter	1
Cicero Meets the Cretaceous	1
:On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia	1
Why Was Small Not Beautiful? Rethinking China’s Great Leap Forward through Water	1
Imperial Creatures: Humans and Other Animals in Colonial Singapore, 1819–1942. By Timothy P. Barnard. Kent Ridge: National University of Singapore Press, 2019. xiii + 264 pp. Illustrations, map	1
Białowieża Primeval Forest: Nature and Culture in the Nineteenth Century. By Tomasz Samojlik, Anastasia Fedotova, Piotr Daszkiewicz, and Ian D. Rotherham. Cham: Springer, 2020. 223 pp. Illustra	1
:Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain	1
Front Matter	1
Extinction and Its Interventions in the Americas	1
Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Environment in Turkey	1
Back Matter	1
Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene. Curated and edited by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. Free on	1
“A Great Responsibility”: Biodiversity Crisis in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	1
New Scholarship	1
:Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change from 1979 to the Present	1
Bulk Wine from Big Water in a Dry Land	1
:Death Is All around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City	1
:After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe	1
Better Together? The Values, Obstacles, Opportunities, and Prospects for Collaborative Research in Environmental History	1
Harnessing the Great Acceleration: Connecting Local and Global Environmental History at the Port of Singapore	1
The Fifth Element: The Enlightenment and the Draining of Eastern Europe	1
Note from the Editors	1
Memory and the Representation of Public Health Crises: Remembering the Plague of Provence in the Tricentennial	1
:In a Wounded Land: Conservation, Extraction and Human Well-Being in Coastal Tanzania	1
:Razing Kids: Youth, Environment, and the Postwar American West	1
The War on the EPA. By William M. Alley and Rosemarie Alley. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. x+286 pp., notes, and bibliography. US$47.00 (cloth).	1
Front Matter	1

Accounting for a Fruitful Little Ice Age: Overlapping Scales of Climate and Culture in Württemberg, 1560–1590	1
Unwritten Rule: State-Making through Land Reform in Cambodia. By Alice Beban. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. xiv+242 pp. Illustrations, notes, tables, bibliography, and index. US$1	1
:Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis	1
Note from the Editors	1
New Directions in Forest History, but Please No New Frontiers	1
:Once Upon the Permafrost: Knowing Culture and Climate Change in Siberia	1
:Dawn at Mineral King Valley: The Sierra Club, the Disney Company, and the Rise of Environmental Law	1
Front Cover	1
Front Cover	1
New Scholarship	1
:Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent	1
Fighting for Forests: Protection and Exploitation of Kŏje Island Timber during the East Asian War of 1592–1598	1
:Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature	1
The Settler Sea: California’s Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism. By Traci Brynne Voyles. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. xi+382 pp. Photographs, illustrations, maps, g	1
:Solar Adobe: Energy Ecology & Earthen Architecture	1
Note from the Editors	1
:Agriculture’s Energy: The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil’s Green Revolution	1
Of Time and Timing: Internal Drainage Boards and Water Level Management in the River Hull Valley	1
New Scholarship	1
The Birth of the Black Death: Biology, Climate, Environment, and the Beginnings of the Second Plague Pandemic in Early Fourteenth-Century Central Asia	1
:Transplanting Modernity? The Environmental Legacy of International Development	1
Note from the Editors	1
Front Matter	1
Before the Reign of Smokey Bear: Patterns of Persuasion in Early Twentieth-Century Forest Fire Prevention Posters	1
:The Cultivated Forest: People and Woodlands in Asian History	1
In Memoriam: Julia Obertreis	1
Corrigendum	1
From Ground to Sky: Arid Visions and the Making of the Southwest	1
New Scholarship	1
In Grave Danger: A Brief Environmental History of the Cuban Crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer)	1
Understanding Wildfire in the Twenty-First Century: The Return of Disaster Fires	1
:Making Better Coffee: How Maya Farmers and Third Wave Tastemakers Create Value	1
Fishwork Is for the Birds: Humans and Birds in the Sixteenth-Century Northwest Atlantic	1
“A Spirit of Encroachment”: Trees, Cod, and the Political Ecology of Empire in the Newfoundland Fisheries, 1763–1783	1
Front Matter	1
The First Century of the International Joint Commission. Edited by Daniel Macfarlane and Murray Clamen. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2020. xviii+603 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, gr	1
Animal City: The Domestication of America. By Andrew A. Robichaud. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 352 pp. Illustrations, maps. US$41.00 (cloth). Mad Dogs and Other New Yorker	1
Return to the Yeokanta/River: Powhatan Women and Environmental Treaty Making in Early America	1
“Extraordinarily Inconspicuous” Elephants: The Interspecies Constitution and Contestations of the Ivory Commodity Frontier in Nineteenth-Century South Sudan	1
Reflection: Conviviality and Companionship: Parrots and People in the African Forests	1
:At the Base of the Giant’s Throat: The Past and Future of America’s Great Dams	1
A Wild Bird and a Cultured Man. The Common Eider and Homo Sapiens: Fourteen Centuries Together. By Alexandra Goryashko. Saint Petersburg, 2020. 496 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index	1
:Born with a Copper Spoon: A Global History of Copper, 1830–1980	1
Reconciling Sites of Memory and Loss: Place, a Poetics of Geology, and the Implicated Writer	1
:Strong Winds and Widow Makers: Workers, Nature, and Environmental Conflict in Pacific Northwest Timber Country	1
The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century. By Guiliano Garavini. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xiv + 420 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. Clot	1
Neptune’s Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea. By Antony Adler. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019. 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth $39.95.	1
:Green Persuasion: Advertising, Voluntarism, and America’s Public Lands	1
Water Qualities and Usage in the Zanjas of Los Angeles, 1781–1904	1
:Roots of Sustainability in the Iberian Empires: Shipbuilding and Forestry, 14th–19th Centuries	1
Nomad’s Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World. By Andrea E. Duffy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. xxvi + 306 pp. Illustra	1
:Meander: Making Room for Rivers	1
Back Matter	1