Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction xiii
Part I The Elements of Environmental History 1
1 Paths Toward Home: Landmarks of the Field in Environmental History 3Louis S. Warren
2 Air 33Nancy Langston
3 The Living Earth: History, Darwinian Evolution, and the Grasslands 51Donald Worster
4 Fire 69Stephen J. Pyne
5 Water 92Rebecca Solnit
Part II Nature and the Construction of Society and Identity 97
6 Race and US Environmental History 99Colin Fisher
7 Gender 116Susan R. Schrepfer and Douglas Cazaux Sackman
8 Class 146Chad Montrie
9 Body Counts: Tracking the Human Body Through Environmental History 163Neil M. Maher
Part III The Nature of American Culture 181
10 From Wilderness to Hybrid Landscapes: The Cultural Turn in Environmental History 183Richard White
11 American Indian Environmental Relations 191David Rich Lewis
12 Cultures of Nature: To ca. 1810 214Matthew Dennis
13 Cultures of Nature: Nineteenth Century 246Aaron Sachs
14 Cultures of Nature: Twentieth Century 266Finis Dunaway
15 From Wilderness Prophets to Tool Freaks: Post-World War II Environmentalism 285Andrew Kirk
16 The Black Box in the Garden: Consumers and the Environment 304Tom McCarthy
Part IV Contact Zones: Americans Conjoining the Natural World 325
17 Flora 327Frieda Knobloch
18 Fauna: A Prospectus for Evolutionary History 345Edmund Russell
19 Water Development: The Plot Thickens 375Patty Limerick
20 Rich Crevices of Inquiry: Mining and Environmental History 394Katherine G. Morrissey
21 Who Cares About Forests? How Forest History Matters 410Ellen Stroud
22 Cultivating an Agro-Environmental History 425Sara M. Gregg
23 Oceans: Fusing the History of Science and Technology with Environmental History 442Helen M. Rozwadowski
24 Cities and Suburbs 462Chris Sellers
25 Energy and Transportation 482Brian Black
26 The Global Ecological Reach of the United States: Exporting Capital and Importing Commodities 505Richard P. Tucker
27 Food 529Douglas Cazaux Sackman
Part V Outside of the Grid: Place, Borders, and Scale 551
28 Blinded by History: The Geographic Dimension of Environment and Society 553Richard Walker and Sarah Thomas
29 The Northeastern Pacifi c Basin: An Environmental Approach to Seascapes and Littoral Places 579David Igler
30 Earthlings: Evolution and Place in Environmental History 595Dan Flores
31 "Most Fruitful Results": Transborder Approaches to Canadian-American Environmental History 615Ted Binnema
32 Seeing Beyond Our Borders: US and Non-US Historiographies 635Paul Sutter
Index 653