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

About the Author

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. Contributors: Thomas Andrews, University of Colorado at Boulder . Emily Brock, University of South Carolina Kathleen A. Brosnan, University of OklahomaMark Carey, University of
OregonConnie Y. Chiang, Bowdoin College Lawrence Culver, Utah State UniversityDiana K. Davis, University of California, DavisWilliam Deverell, University of Southern CaliforniaKurk Dorsey, University of New HampshireAndrew R. Graybill, Southern Methodist UniversityMarcus Hall, University of ZurichAndrew C. Isenberg, Temple UniversityMatthew Klingle, Bowdoin CollegeNancy Langston, Michigan Technological UniversityThomas Lekan, University of South CarolinaMichael Lewis, Salisbury UniversityLinda Nash, University of WashingtonSara B. Pritchard, Cornell UniversitySteven Stoll, Fordham UniversityPaul S.
Sutter, University of Colorado at BoulderJames Morton Turner, Wellesley CollegeNancy C. Unger, Santa Clara UniversityBrett Walker, Montana State UniversityLouis Warren, University of California, DavisFrank Zelko, University of VermontThomas Zeller, University of Maryland, College Park

Reviews

"The 25 chapters of The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History provide outstanding examples of the penetration of an 'environmental approach' into the mainstream historical discussion." --Conservation Biology
"An enormously valuable teaching and research resource for the practitioner of environmental history: many chapters will serve nicely as the first assignment for students working at advanced undergraduate, masters and doctoral levels within the broad thematic and topical areas of individual chapter coverage...Yet this Handbook will be equally valuable as a showcase of what the field has to offer other historians. It will demonstrate with vigour and
verve that environmental history, rather than existing out there, somewhere on the margins, sealed off from other fields within historical studies, is actually quite near here, ready, willing and ripe for
cross-pollination, and, actually not that strange after all, subject to all the usual trends and turns that shape and reshape historical studies."--Peter Coates, Reviews in History
"The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History is a job well done...One can hardly complain about the fresh insights brought here to climate history; animals; disease; grasslands; forests; tropics; science; technology; synthetic chemicals; national parks, wilderness, and protected areas; cultural landscapes; capitalism; private property; work; consumption; law; cities; race and ethnicity; women and gender; borders; and international relations. The
authors tasked to write these essays are equally impressive and diverse."--Journal of American History
"[T]he 25 chapters of The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History provide outstanding examples of the penetration of an 'environmental approach' into the mainstream historical discussion....Turner's chapter on the history of parks, wilderness, and protected areas in the United States is a lucid and brave argument on the nature protection-local people dichotomy in the context of environmental history. The anti-imperialist and anti-elitist perspective
of the essay, together with its criticism of Americentrism, is a refreshing addition to the conservation literature."--Zsolt Pinke, Conservation Biology