The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History draws on a wealth of new scholarship to offer diverse perspectives on the state of the field.

• 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

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.