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.
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* 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
* 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
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