Environmental History


Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History)
The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (Hill and Wang Critical Issues)
DUST BOWL 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: The Southern Plains in the 1930s
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492
Silent Spring
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series)
Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
Wilderness and the American Mind
Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History
Wallace Stegner
It is a country to breed mystical people, egocentric people, perhaps poetic people. But not humble ones…Puny you may feel there, and vulnerable, but not unnoticed. This is a land to mark the sparrow’s fall
Wallace Stegner, Wolf Willow

Elliott West
Environmental history is, among other things, a lengthy account of human beings over and over imagining their way into a serious pickle.
Elliott West, The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado

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