Environmental History Preliminary Exam Reading List, 2008 Supervised by William Cronon

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1 Environmental History Preliminary Exam Reading List, 2008 Supervised by William Cronon Overviews and Syntheses (9) William Cronon (ed.), Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. New York: Norton, Paul Wallace Gates, History of Public Land Law Development. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, Samuel P. Hays, Explorations in Environmental History: Essays. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, J. R. McNeill, Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth Century World. New York: Norton, Ted Steinberg, Down to Earth: Nature s Role in American History. New York: Oxford University Press, Richard White, American Environmental History: The Development of a New Field. Pacific Historical Review vol. 54, pp , Donald Worster (ed.), The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives in Modern Environmental History. New York: Cambridge University Press, [SELECTIONS] Donald Worster, The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press, Donald Worster, Alfred Crosby, Richard White, et al., A Roundtable: Environmental History. Journal of American History vol. 76, pp , Classics and Historiography (15) Michael P. Conzen (ed.), The Making of the American Landscape. London: Harper Collins, William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983., Nature s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W. W. Norton, [crosslisted with History of Technology] Alfred Crosby, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, New York: Cambridge University Press, Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., [crosslisted with History of Technology] Nancy Langston, Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West. Seattle: University of Washington Press,

2 Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution. New York: Harper & Row, Steven Pyne, Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Gregg Mitman and Kevin Dann, Essay Review: Exploring the Border of Environmental History and the History of Ecology. Journal of the History of Biology vol. 30, pp , Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind. New Haven: Yale University Press, Edmund Russell, War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring. New York: Cambridge University Press, [crosslisted with Science in America] Richard White, Land Use, Environment, and Social Change: The Shaping of Island County, Washington. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1980., The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River. New York: Hill and Wang, [crosslisted with History of Technology], The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change among the Chocktaws, Pawnees, and Navajos. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Raymond Williams, The Country and the City. London: Chatto and Windus, Agriculture (33) Jane Adams, Fighting for the Farm: Rural America Transformed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003., The Transformation of Rural Life: Southern Illinois, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Hal S. Barron, Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation of the Rural North, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997., Those Who Stayed Behind: Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century New England. New York: Cambridge University Press, Randal S. Beeman and James A. Pritchard, A Green and Permanent Land: Ecology and Agriculture in the Twentieth Century. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, [crosslisted with Science in America] Percy Wells Bidwell and John I. Falconer, History of Agriculture in the Northern United States, Washington, D.C.: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Allan G. Bogue, From Prairie to Corn Belt: Farming on the Illinois and Iowa Prairies in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Brian Cannon, Remaking the Agrarian Dream: New Deal Rural Resettlement in the 2

3 Mountain West. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, Joyce Chaplin, An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, David Danbom, Born in the Country: A History of Rural America (2 nd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006., The Resisted Revolution: Urban America and the Industrialization of Agriculture, Ames: Iowa State University Press, Pete Daniel, Breaking the Land: The Enclosure of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice Cultures, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, Brian Donahue, The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004., Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town. New Haven: Yale University Press, Andrew Duffin, Plowed Under: Agriculture and Environment in the Palouse. Seattle: University of Washington Press, Mark Fiege, Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West. Seattle: University of Washington Press, [crosslisted with History of Technology] Deborah Fitzgerald, The Business of Breeding: Hybrid Corn in Illinois, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, [crosslisted with Science in America], Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture. New Haven: Yale University Press, [crosslisted with History of Technology] Paul Wallace Gates, The Farmer s Age: Agriculture, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, L. C. Gray, History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, Steven Hahn and Jonathan Prude, The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, [SKIM] Norris Hundley, Jr., The Great Thirst: Californians and Water A History (rev. ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001 (1992). R. Douglas Hurt, American Agriculture: A Brief History. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1994., Problems of Plenty: The American Farmer in the Twentieth Century. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, James C. McCann, Maize and Grace: Africa s Encounter with a New World Crop, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Sally McMurry, Families and Farmhouses in Nineteenth-Century America: Vernacular Design and Social Change. New York: Oxford University Press,

4 , Transforming Rural Life: Dairying Families and Agricultural Change, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Mary Neth, Preserving the Family Farm: Women, Community, and the Foundations of Agribusiness in the Midwest, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Douglas Sackman, Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden. Berkeley: University of California Press, John Soluri, Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Chance in Honduras and the United States. Austin: University of Texas Press, [crosslisted with History of Technology] Steven Stoll, The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California. Berkeley: University of California Press, [crosslisted with History of Technology], Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Hill and Wang, Donald Worster, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. New York: Oxford University Press, Conservation and Environmental Movements (9) Robert Gottlieb, Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement (rev. ed.). Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2005 (1993). Richard Grove, Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens, and the Origins of Environmentalism, Ramachandra Guha, Environmentalism: A Global History. London: Routledge, Samuel P. Hays, Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987., Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Neil Maher, Nature s New Deal: Franklin Roosevelt s Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement. New York: Oxford University Press, Sarah Phillips, This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal. New York: Cambridge University Press, Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of the American Environmental Movement. New York: Cambridge University Press, Paul Sutter, Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement. Seattle: University of Washington Press,

5 Environment, Health, and Justice (10) Robert Bullard, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994., Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, Andrew Hurley, Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Gregg Mitman, Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes. New Haven: Yale University Press, [crosslisted with Science in America] Gregg Mitman, Michelle Murphy, and Christopher Sellers (eds.), Landscapes of Exposure: Knowledge and Illness in Modern Environments. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004 (Osiris, 2 nd series, vol. 19). Michelle Murphy, Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers. Durham: Duke University Press, [crosslisted with History of Technology] Linda Nash, Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge. Berkeley: University of California Press, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin Press, Christopher Sellers, Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Conevery Bolton Valencius, The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land. New York: Basic Books, Social History / Labor in Nature (7) Deborah Fink, Agrarian Women: Wives and Mothers in Rural Nebraska, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Karl Jacoby, Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of Conservation. Berkeley: University of California Press, Lu Ann Jones, Mama Learned Us To Work: Farm Women in the New South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Richard W. Judd, Common Lands, Common People: The Origins of Conservation in Northern New England. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Art McEvoy, The Fisherman s Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, New York: Cambridge University Press, Susan Strasser, Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash. New York: Metropolitan Books, Louis Warren, The Hunter s Game: Poachers and Conservation in Twentieth-Century 5

6 America. New Haven: Yale University Press, Cultural History / Meanings and Ideas of Nature (11) Keith Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache. Albequerque: University of New Mexico Press, Finis Dunaway, Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Thomas Dunlap, Faith in Nature: Environmentalism as Religious Quest. Seattle: University of Washington Press, Shepard Krech III, The Ecological Indian: Myth and History. New York: Norton, Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. New York: Oxford University Press, [crosslisted with History of Technology] Gregg Mitman, Reel Nature: America s Romance with Wildlife on Film. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, [crosslisted with Science in America] Barbara Novak, Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, New York: Oxford University Press, [crosslisted with Science in America] Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener s Education. New York: Dell, Jennifer Price, Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America. New York: Basic Books, Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory. New York: Vintage, Raymond Williams, Nature, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. London: Fontana,