REQUIRED READING
McNeill, J.R., “Observations on the Nature and Culture of Environmental History,” History and Theory, 42 (December, 2003), 2-43.
McNeill, J.R., “Yellow Jack and Geopolitics: Environment, Epidemics, and the Struggles for Empire in the American Tropics, 1650-1900” (Unpublished Paper, 2004), 1-24.

[The following is a selected bibliography put together by Professor Cronon for the U.S. History introductory graduate seminar.  It has a bias toward the U.S., which Professors Cronon and McNeill agreed represents a general tendency in the field]

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY: SELECTED READINGS

Theory and Synthetic Overviews
Conzen, Michael P., Making of the American Landscape (London: Unwin Hyman, 1990).
Cronon, William, “Kennecott Journey: The Paths Out of Town,” in Cronon et al., eds., Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America’s Western Past (New York: W. W. Norton, 1991), 28-51.
Cronon, William, ed., Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (New York: W. W. Norton, 1996).
Egan, Dave, and Evelyn Howell, eds.., Historical Ecology Handbook (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2001).
Goudie, Andrew, ed., Encyclopedia of Global Change: Environmental Change and Human Society (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).
Kiple, Kenneth, ed., The Cambridge World History of Food (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Kiple, Kenneth, ed., The Cambridge World History of Human Disease (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
Krech, Shepard, et al., eds, Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (London: Routledge, 2004).
McNeill, John, Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (New York: W. W. Norton, 2001).
Melosi, Martin, The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).
Merchant, Carolyn, The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
Merchant, Carolyn, Major Problems in American Environmental History (Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1993).
Nash, Roderick, American Environmentalism: Readings in Conservation History (3rd ed., New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990).
Soper, Kate, What Is Nature?: Culture, Politics and the Non-Human (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995).
Steinberg, Ted, Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).
Stilgoe, John, Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982).
Warren, Louis, American Environmental History (New York: Blackwell, 2003).
Richard White, “Historiographical Essay: American Environmental History: The Development of a New Field,” Pacific Historical Review, 54(1985), 297-335.
Worster, Donald, et al., "A Round Table: Environmental History," Journal of American History 76:4 (March 1990), 1111-46.
Worster, Donald, The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on Modern Environmental History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
Worster, Donald, The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).

Classics and Precursors
Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962).
Gates, Paul Wallace, History of Public Land Law Development (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1968).
Hoskins, W. G., The Making of the English Landscape (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1955).
Leopold, Aldo, A Sand County Almanac (New York: Oxford University Press, 1949).
Malin, James, History and Ecology, ed. Robert P. Swierenga  (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984).
Marsh, George Perkins, Man and Nature (1864; reprinted, ed. David Lowenthal, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003).
Sauer, Carol Ortwin, Land and Life: A Selection from the Writings of Carl Ortwin Sauer, ed. John Leighly (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963).
Thomas, William L., Man’s Role in Changing the Face of the Earth (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956).
Environmental History of Material Life
Cronon, William, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (New York: Hill & Wang, 2nd ed., 2003).
Cronon, William, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (New York: W. W. Norton, 1991).
Crosby, Alfred W., Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986).
Crosby, Alfred W., Jr., The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1972).
Fiege, Mark, Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999).
Guha, Ramachandra, Environmentalism: A Global History (London: Routledge, 1999).
Krech, Shepard, The Ecological Indian: Myth and History (New York: W. W. Norton, 1999).
Langston, Nancy, Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995).
McEvoy, Arthur F., The Fisherman’s Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986).
McPhee, John, The Control of Nature (New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1989.
Pyne, Stephen J., Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982).
Pyne, Stephen J., Fire: A Brief History (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003).
Rome, Adam, The Bulldozer in the Countryside : Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
White, Richard, Land Use, Environment, and Social Change: The Shaping of Island County, Washington (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1980).
Richard White, The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (New York: Hill & Wang, 1996).
White, Richard, Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983).
Worster, Donald, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979).

Ideas of Nature
Marx, Leo, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1964).
Mitman, Gregg, The State of Nature: Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900-1950 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).
Mitman, Gregg, Reel Nature: America’s Romance with Wildlife on Film (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999).
Novak, Barbara, Nature and Culture: American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980).
Pollan, Michael, Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education (New York: Dell, 1991).
Price, Jennifer, Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America (New York: Basic Books, 1999).
Edmund Russell, War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Worster, Donald, Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (1977, 2nd ed., New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
Williams, Raymond, The Country and the City (New York: Oxford University Press, 1975).
Williams, Raymond, “Ideas of Nature,” (1972) in Williams, Problems in Materialism and Culture: Selected Essays (London: Verso, 1980).

History of Conservation and Environmentalism
Dunlap, Thomas R., DDT: Scientists, Citizens, and Public Policy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975).
Fox, Stephen, The American Conservation Movement: John Muir and His Legacy (1981; Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985).
Gottlieb, Robert, Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1993.
Hays, Samuel P., Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890-1920 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959).
Hays, Samuel P., Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
Hays, Samuel P., Explorations in Environmental History: Essays (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998).
Nash, Roderick, Wilderness and the American Mind (4th ed., New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001).
Runte, Alfred, The National Parks (3rd ed., Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997).
Schama, Simon, Landscape and Memory (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1996).
Strasser, Susan, Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash (New York: Metropolitan Books, 1999).
Sutter, Paul, Driven Wild: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002).

Class, Race, Gender, and Nature
Adamson, Joni, The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, & Pedagogy (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002).
Bullard, Robert, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2nd ed., 1994).
Bullard, Robert, ed., Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1994.
Deming, Alison H., and Lauret E. Savoy, eds., The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2003).
Hurley, Andrew, Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995).
Jacoby, Karl, Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of Conservation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).
Judd, Richard, Common Lands, Common People: The Origins of Conservation in Northern New England (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997).
McMurry, Sally, Families and Farmhouses in Nineteenth-Century America: Vernacular Design and Social Change (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988).
Merchant, Carolyn, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (New York: Harper & Row, 1980).
Merchant, Carolyn, Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989).
Virginia Scharff, “Are Earth Girls Easy?  Ecofeminism, Women’s History, and Environmental History, ” Journal of Women’s History, 7 (Summer 1995): 164-75.
Christopher Sellers, "Thoreau's Body: Towards an Embodied Environmental History," Environmental History, 4 (1999), 486-514.
Alan Taylor, "Unnatural Inequalities: Social and Environmental Histories,"  Environmental History, 4:1 (Oct. 1996), 6-19.
Valencius, Conevery Bolton, The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land (New York: Basic Books, 2003).
Warren, Louis, The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999).