Environmental History

Papers
(The TQCC of Environmental History is 0. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Teaching as Scholarship; or, Looking at the Global History of Energy Transitions in a Classroom in San Diego20
:The Nature of Endangerment in India: Tigers, ‘Tribes’, Extermination and Conservation, 1818–202014
:The First Atomic Bomb: The Trinity Site in New Mexico12
:Captivity’s Collections: Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade7
:Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis5
Shadow Places, Environmental Justice, and the Submergence of Pollution5
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:Sea Level: A History4
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Frozen Over: Making Ice and Knowing Nature in Nineteenth-Century America4
:The King’s Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire3
New Scholarship3
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“And Yet It Makes Environmental Sense”: Beachfront Management and Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina3
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Picturing Time in the Anthropocene: Anselm Kiefer’s Ages of the World (2014)3
:Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration2
:Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt2
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$192
:American Energy Cinema2
:Making America’s Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands2
Resource or Relationship? Unpacking River Histories to Restore Wabanaki Livelihoods2
: Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara2
The Price of Adaptation: Visualizing Climate Change in the Greenland Sea, 1596–18002
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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, tables2
:Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World’s Most Caffeine-Rich Plant2
:Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire2
Public, Private, and More: Beyond Binaries in Framing the History of Land Conservation2
Uniquely Japan, Uniquely Alpine: The Transformation of the Kamikōchi Mountain Valley into an Alpine Landscape, 1892–19382
Entangled Extinction: Endangered Elephants and Extinct Mammoth Ivory in the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries2
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Better Together? The Values, Obstacles, Opportunities, and Prospects for Collaborative Research in Environmental History1
:Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining1
Water Qualities and Usage in the Zanjas of Los Angeles, 1781–19041
: Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon1
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Bulk Wine from Big Water in a Dry Land1
Why Was Small Not Beautiful? Rethinking China’s Great Leap Forward through Water1
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Cicero Meets the Cretaceous1
:Strong Winds and Widow Makers: Workers, Nature, and Environmental Conflict in Pacific Northwest Timber Country1
:Born with a Copper Spoon: A Global History of Copper, 1830–19801
Reeds, Snails, and Parasites: Schistosomiasis and Wetland Ecology in China’s Yangzi Delta from the 1870s to 19491
:Dawn at Mineral King Valley: The Sierra Club, the Disney Company, and the Rise of Environmental Law1
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: Underground Leviathan: Corporate Sovereignty and Mining in the Americas1
Return to the Yeokanta/River: Powhatan Women and Environmental Treaty Making in Early America1
Fighting for Forests: Protection and Exploitation of Kŏje Island Timber during the East Asian War of 1592–15981
From Temperature to Terroir: Wine Research at the University of California1
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New Scholarship1
:Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice.1
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:Death Is All around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City1
:Mount Sacred: A Brief History of Holy Mountains since 15001
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:Drafting the Past1
:Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty1
:People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America1
:Solar Adobe: Energy Ecology & Earthen Architecture1
:Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature1
:Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain1
:Agriculture’s Energy: The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil’s Green Revolution1
:Making Better Coffee: How Maya Farmers and Third Wave Tastemakers Create Value1
: The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century1
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“Extraordinarily Inconspicuous” Elephants: The Interspecies Constitution and Contestations of the Ivory Commodity Frontier in Nineteenth-Century South Sudan1
Capital Prospects: Jamaica and the Environmental History of Postwar Decolonization1
Accounting for a Fruitful Little Ice Age: Overlapping Scales of Climate and Culture in Württemberg, 1560–15901
: Liberty’s Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America1
Tenants’ Rights and Ecology1
:Razing Kids: Youth, Environment, and the Postwar American West1
Playing Gaia: Simulation, Science, and the Significance of Video Games for Environmental History1
“A Great Responsibility”: Biodiversity Crisis in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew1
:History and the Climate Crisis: Environmental History in the Classroom1
:Green Persuasion: Advertising, Voluntarism, and America’s Public Lands1
: Canadians and Their Natural Environment1
New Scholarship1
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, index1
:Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent1
: Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land1
New Directions in Forest History, but Please No New Frontiers1
New Scholarship1
Boston’s “Other River”: The Neponset Greenway, 1993–20170
:Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century0
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: Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age0
New Scholarship0
Land as Text: Reading the Land0
In Memoriam: Linda Nash, 1962–20210
: Strength from the Waters: A History of Indigenous Mobilization in Northwest Mexico0
A Spiteful Campaign: Agriculture, Forests, and Administering the Environment in Imperial Singapore and Malaya0
The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream. By Jason Vuic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 20
:Sharing Yerba Mate: How South America’s Most Popular Drink Defined a Region0
:Environmental History of Modern India: Land, Population, Technology and Development0
New Scholarship0
Note from the Editors0
Forum: Global Wine at the Intersection of Climate and Culture0
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: Imperial Weather: Meteorology, Science, and the Environment in Colonial Malaya0
:Forging Arizona: A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West0
The Patriot Ecology of the French Far Right0
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, g0
:Trees and Forests of Tropical Asia: Exploring Tapovan0
Dreaming of Rediscovery: Botanists, Extinction, and the Tree That Sets the Brain on Fire0
“Brave New Home”: Gendering Alternative Technology in the 1970s0
Note from the Editors0
:The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods0
Displacement in Galveston After Hurricane Ike: How Opponents of Public Housing Co-Opted the Language of Fair Housing and Environmental Justice0
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From Self-Determination to Privatization (and Back Again): Water and Post–Black Power Politics in Newark, New Jersey0
“A Coquettish, Hitchhiking Bug”: The Rise and Fall of Pestina, Symbol of Invasive Pests and Agricultural Quarantine0
Making Plastics Count: Citizen Science Beach Cleanups and the Ocean Plastic Pollution Crisis (1980s–2020s)0
:Who Gets to Go Back-to-the-Land? Gender and Race in U.S. Self-Sufficiency Popular Culture0
:Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability0
:On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia0
“If It Happens to Them, It Happens to You”: The Highlander Folk School and the Racial Borders of Environmental Justice0
“How Could the Destructive Earthquake Devil Be Bridled?”: Disasters and Pahlavi Iran, 1925–19790
:Nuked: Echoes of the Hiroshima Bomb in St. Louis0
Charting New Directions in Conservation History: A Niche for Activism in Private Land Conservation Among Environmental Historians?0
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:An Ecological History of Modern China0
: All Mapped Out: How Maps Shape Us0
:Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences: Rethinking the Specialization Thesis0
New Scholarship0
Resilience to Climate Change: Lessons Learned from the Douro Wine Terroir0
:Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History0
Environmental Practices in a Colonial Context: The Mitigation of Soot Pollution in the Shanghai International Settlement, 1863–19430
:Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean0
Water, Engineers, and French Environmental Imaginaries of Ottoman Iraq, 1868–19080
:Profit: An Environmental History0
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: The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier0
Drawing Barbed Wire: The Tule Lake Scrapbook of 19420
:Cattle Beet Capital: Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado0
:The Carbon Calculation: Global Climate Policy, Forests, and Transnational Governance in Brazil and Mozambique0
:The League of Nations and the Protection of the Environment0
“Green Is the Color of the Luxuriant Vegetation of Our Motherland”: Marcus Garvey, Temporality, and Wilderness as a Repeating Phase0
Degrowth and Environmental History: Toward Critical Encounters0
:Sewer of Progress: Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River0
Forests, Frontiers, and Extractivism0
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Asphalt: A History. By Kenneth O’Reilly. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. xii+329 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. US$29.95 (cloth or e-book).0
Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics. By Tobias Menely. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. vii+269 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. US$105.00 (cloth); US0
“The Quiet Garden Where Spring Is Forever”: Toyo Suyemoto and the Japanese American Redress Movement0
“Bright Visions of Deliverance”: Black Women’s Space-Making through Stories0
:Sand and Fire: Exploring a Rare Pine Barrens Landscape0
:From Environmental Loss to Resistance: Infrastructure and the Struggle for Justice in North America0
: So Great Was the Slaughter: Market Hunters, Sportsmen, and Wildlife Conservation in Arkansas0
Upstream, Downstream: Iron Mining in Early Modern Japan and the Uneven Spread of Environmental Protection0
Targeting Reform: Superfund, Industri-Plex, and Pollution Remediation in the United States0
:One Shot for Gold: Developing a Modern Mine in Northern California0
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Turning Water into Wine: The Curious History of Terroir in South Africa0
:Contested Sustainability: The Political Ecology of Conservation and Development in Tanzania0
:Heartland River: A Cultural and Environmental History of the Big Sioux River Valley0
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:Hush of the Land: A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness0
Urban Archipelago: An Environmental History of the Boston Harbor Islands. By Pavla Šimková. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021. xi+256 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. US$900
:Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland0
: Plant Collectors in Angola: Botany, Exploration, and History in South-Tropical Africa0
People’s Park: Constructing Nature in the Mexican Metropolis0
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:Settling the Boom: The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil0
In Memoriam: Mark Elvin (1938–2023)0
The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services0
:Climate and Society in Europe: The Last Thousand Years0
Still a Silent World: Fish Ears, Whale Politics, and the Science of Ocean Noise, 1941–19900
The Environment in Deep Water: Environmentalists, Deep-Sea Mining, and the Law of the Sea (circa 1970–1982)0
:Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia0
:Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America0
:The Russian Cold: Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow0
: The Forest That Fire Made: An Introduction to the Longleaf Pine Forest0
:Suomen ympäristöhistoria 1700-luvulta nykyaikaan0
Shrinking the Earth: The Rise and Decline of Natural Abundance. By Donald Worster. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. vii+265 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. US$27.95 (paper).0
: From Borderland to Burgenland: Science, Geopolitics, Identity, and the Making of a Region0
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: The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France0
:Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future0
:Nuestro viaje a la Luna: La idea de la transformación de la naturaleza en Cuba durante la Guerra Fría0
Subterranean Archives0
Scorched Land: The Erosion of Environmental Governance during the Bolsonaro Administration0
:Oil Palm: A Global History0
:Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c. 300–11000
In Memoriam: Angus L. Wright0
In the Energy Library0
:The Farmer’s Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm0
“A Good Tree Is a Fast-Growing Tree”: South Korea’s Reforestation in the 1950s and the Making of Cold War Ecology in East Asia0
Introduction: Fair Housing and Environmental Justice0
The Great Convergence: Environmental Histories of BRICS. Edited by S. Ravi Rajan and Lise Sedrez. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018. xix+442 pp. Images, notes, bibliography, and index. U0
Ecospatiality: A Place-Based Approach to American Literature. By Lowell Wyse. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2021. 260 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. US$90.00 (p0
The Bureau of Livestock and Motorcycles: Measuring Leisure in the Bureau of Land Management’s Off-Road Era0
Archives of Oil and Archaeology in Iraq0
Forest History and Environmental History: Kissing Cousins?0
Muddy Lines and Murky Waters: The Making of a Colonial Deltaic Forest, 1816–18280
: Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How US Military Engineers Conquered Extreme Environments0
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Agriculture of the Uprooted: The Assyrian Settlement on the Khabur and the Agrarian Solution to Refugees0
Of Ice and Men: The Evolving Role of the Camera in Twentieth-Century Glacier Study0
Cutover Capitalism: Connecting Labor and Nature in Forest Extraction0
:Spearheading Environmental Change: The Legacy of Indiana Congressman Floyd J. Fithian0
:Understanding Imperiled Earth: How Archaeology and Human History Inform a Sustainable Future0
Man-Made Weather: The Promise, Peril, and Uncertainty of Cloud Seeding in Postwar America0
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The “Eco-Phony” World’s Fair: Expo ’74 and the Bind of Being Friends of the Earth0
:Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit0
“A Spirit of Encroachment”: Trees, Cod, and the Political Ecology of Empire in the Newfoundland Fisheries, 1763–17830
:The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution0
: Kings of Oxen and Horses: Draft Animals, Buddhism, and Chinese Rural Religion0
Illiberal Environmentalism? The Case of Contemporary Hungary0
:Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South0
The Growth Imperative in Soviet Socialism0
Guadalupe Mountains National Park: An Environmental History of the Southwest Borderlands. By Jeffrey P. Shepherd. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019. x+201 pp. Illustrations, maps0
“Half Man, Half Wildcat”: Itinerancy and the Myth of Frontier Manhood in the United States’ Lake Region0
:Killing Bugs for Business and Beauty: Canada’s Aerial War against Forest Pests, 1913–19300
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The Carpathians, the Hutsuls, and Ukraine: An Environmental History. By Anthony J. Amato. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. xiv+469. Illustrations, notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. US0
:Bellwether Histories: Animals, Humans, and US Environments in Crisis0
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:Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia0
Empire & Catastrophe: Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North African and Mediterranean France since 1954. By Spencer D. Segalla. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 3060
Cities and the Mobility of Nature: Landslide Hazards in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh0
Three Sisters Wilderness: A History. By Les Joslin. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2021. 192 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. US$21.99 (paper).0
:From Label to Table: Regulating Food in American in the Information Age0
:The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade0
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Fukushima before Nuclear Power: Developmentalism, Substates, and the Landscape of Energy Extraction in Japan0
:Squirrel Nation: Reds, Greys and the Meaning of Home0
Neither Growth nor Degrowth but Redundancy: The Challenge of Planetary Destabilization in Japan0
:Interpreting Energy at Museums and Historic Sites0
Shaping the African Savannah: From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia. By Michael Bollig. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xiii+404 pp. Photos, maps, tables, bibliography, 0
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Environmental Thought: A Short History. By Robin Attfield. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021. 268 pp. Images, bibliography, index. US$69.95 (cloth); US$24.95 (paper); US$20.00 (e-book).0
The Pacific Salmon Experiment in Northern Ontario and the “Indian Problem”0
Environmental History of South Asia in the Time of Hindutva0
Note from the Editors0
Watershed Protection as Dispossession in Japanese-Occupied Taiwan0
In Memoriam: Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie (1929–2023)0
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:The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism0
The Swamps of East Naples: Environmental History of an Unruly Suburb. By Valerio Caruso, trans. Sara Ferraioli. Winwick: White Horse Press, 2021. ix+215 pp. Illustrations, appendices, bibliogra0
:Naturalizing Inequality: Water, Race and Biopolitics in South Africa0
68 Degrees: New York City’s Residential Heat and Hot Water Code as an Invisible Energy Policy0
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