The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History

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.

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.

• 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