A Companion to American Environmental History

Copyright © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to American Environmental History

Editor(s): Douglas Cazaux Sackman

Published Online: 24 FEB 2010

Print ISBN: 9781405156653

Online ISBN: 9781444323610

DOI: 10.1002/9781444323610

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A Companion to American Environmental History gathers together a comprehensive collection of over 30 essays that examine the evolving and diverse field of American environmental history.

  • Provides a complete historiography of American environmental history
  • Brings the field up-to-date to reflect the latest trends and encourages new directions for the field
  • Includes the work of path-breaking environmental historians, from the founders of the field, to  contributions from innovative young scholars
  • Takes stock of the discipline through five topically themed parts, with essays ranging from American Indian Environmental Relations to Cities and Suburbs

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xxi)

  2. Part I: The Elements of Environmental History

    1. Chapter One

      Paths toward Home: Landmarks of the Field in Environmental History (pages 1–32)

      Louis S. Warren

    2. Chapter Two

      Air (pages 33–50)

      Nancy Langston

    3. Chapter Three

      The Living Earth: History, Darwinian Evolution, and the Grasslands (pages 51–68)

      Donald Worster

    4. Chapter Four

      Fire (pages 69–91)

      Stephen J. Pyne

    5. Chapter Five

      Water (pages 92–95)

      Rebecca Solnit

  3. Part II: Nature and the Construction of Society and Identity

    1. Chapter Six

      Race and US Environmental History (pages 97–115)

      Colin Fisher

    2. Chapter Seven

      Gender (pages 116–145)

      Susan R. Schrepfer and Douglas Cazaux Sackman

    3. Chapter Eight

      Class (pages 146–162)

      Chad Montrie

    4. Chapter Nine

      Body Counts: Tracking the Human Body Through Environmental History (pages 163–179)

      Neil M. Maher

  4. Part III: The Nature of American Culture

    1. Chapter Ten

      From Wilderness to Hybrid Landscapes: The Cultural Turn in Environmental History (pages 181–190)

      Richard White

    2. Chapter Eleven

      American Indian Environmental Relations (pages 191–213)

      David Rich Lewis

    3. Chapter Twelve

      Cultures of Nature: To ca. 1810 (pages 214–245)

      Matthew Dennis

    4. Chapter Thirteen

      Cultures of Nature: Nineteenth Century (pages 246–265)

      Aaron Sachs

    5. Chapter Fourteen

      Cultures of Nature: Twentieth Century (pages 266–284)

      Finis Dunaway

    6. Chapter Fifteen

      From Wilderness Prophets to Tool Freaks: Post-World War II Environmentalism (pages 285–303)

      Andrew Kirk

    7. Chapter Sixteen

      The Black Box in the Garden: Consumers and the Environment (pages 304–324)

      Tom McCarthy

  5. Part IV: Contact Zones: Americans Conjoining the Natural World

    1. Chapter Seventeen

      Flora (pages 325–344)

      Frieda Knobloch

    2. Chapter Eighteen

      Fauna: A Prospectus for Evolutionary History (pages 345–374)

      Edmund Russell

    3. Chapter Nineteen

      Water Development: The Plot Thickens (pages 375–393)

      Patty Limerick

    4. Chapter Twenty

      Rich Crevices of Inquiry: Mining and Environmental History (pages 394–409)

      Katherine G. Morrissey

    5. Chapter Twenty-One

      Who Cares About Forests? How Forest History Matters (pages 410–424)

      Ellen Stroud

    6. Chapter Twenty-two

      Cultivating an Agro-Environmental History (pages 425–441)

      Sara M. Gregg

    7. Chapter Twenty-three

      Oceans: Fusing the History of Science and Technology with Environmental History (pages 442–461)

      Helen M. Rozwadowski

    8. Chapter Twenty-four

      Cities and Suburbs (pages 462–481)

      Chris Sellers

    9. Chapter Twenty-five

      Energy and Transportation (pages 482–504)

      Brian Black

    10. Chapter Twenty-six

      The Global Ecological Reach of the United States: Exporting Capital and Importing Commodities (pages 505–528)

      Richard P. Tucker

    11. Chapter Twenty-seven

      Food (pages 529–550)

      Douglas Cazaux Sackman

  6. Part V: Outside of the Grid: Place, Borders, and Scale

    1. Chapter Twenty-eight

      Blinded by History: The Geographic Dimension of Environment and Society (pages 551–578)

      Richard Walker and Sarah Thomas

    2. Chapter Twenty-nine

      The Northeastern Pacific Basin: An Environmental Approach to Seascapes and Littoral Places (pages 579–594)

      David Igler

    3. Chapter Thirty

      Earthlings: Evolution and Place in Environmental History (pages 595–614)

      Dan Flores

    4. Chapter Thirty-one

      “Most Fruitful Results”: Transborder Approaches to Canadian-American Environmental History (pages 615–634)

      Ted Binnema

    5. Chapter Thirty-two

      Seeing beyond Our Borders: US and Non-US Historiographies (pages 635–652)

      Paul Sutter

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      Index (pages 653–670)

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