bridget collins preliminary reading list, fall 2007 … and american environmental history...

Ecology and American Environmental History Preliminary Reading ListBridget Collins, Fall 2007

Bridget Collins

Preliminary Reading List, Fall 2007

Exam: January 2008

Field Supervisor: Gregg Mitman

Advisor: Judith Walzer Leavitt

Department: History of Science

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General and Collected Works:

1. *Dianne D. Glave, and Mark Stoll, editors, To Love the Wind and the Rain: African Americans and Environmental History (Pittsburgh, PA: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 2006).

2. Theodore Steinberg, Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002).

3. Donald Worster, The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on modern Environmental History (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1988).

4. William Cronon, editor, Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature (New York: Norton, 1995).

5. Donald Worster, et. al., “A Round Table: Environmental History,” Journal of American History, 1990, 76: 1111-46.

Colonial Landscapes and Life:

6. Virginia Anderson, Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004).

7. Joyce Chaplin, Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676 (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2001).

8. William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (New York: Hill & Wang, 1983).

9. Alfred Crosby, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1986).

10. Alfred Crosby, The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972).

11. Shepard Krech, The Ecological Indian: Myth and History (New York: Norton, 1999).12. Carolyn Merchant, Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New

England (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1989).

Nature’s Nation:

13. Ann Shelby Blum, Picturing Nature: American Nineteenth-Century Zoological Illustration (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1993).

14. William Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West (New York: Knopf, 1966).

15. Elizabeth Keeney, The Botanizers: Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1985).

16. Barbara Novak, Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875 (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996).

17. Joel Orosz, Curators and Culture: The Museum Movement in America, 1740-1870 (Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press, 1990).

18. Philip Pauly, Philip, Biologists and the Promise of American Life: From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2000).

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19. Charlotte M. Porter, The Eagle’s Nest: Natural History and American Idea, 1812-1842 (Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press, 1986).

20. Aaron Sachs, The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism (New York: Viking, 2006).

21. Hugh Richard Slotten, Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science; Alexander Dallas Bache and the US Coast Survey (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994).

22. Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the American West (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954).

23. Laura Walls, Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1995).

24. Margaret Welch, The Book of Nature: Natural History in the United States 1825-1875 (Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 1998).

25. Richard White, Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos (Lincoln, NE: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1983).

26. Donald Worster, A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001).

Ecology and Environmentalism:

27. Stephen Bocking, Ecologists and Environmental Politics: A History of Contemporary Ecology (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1997).

28. Kevin Dann, Across the Great Border Fault: The Naturalist Myth in America (New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 2000).

29. Thomas Dunlap, DDT: Scientists, Citizens, and Public Policy (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1981).

30. Thomas Dunlap, Saving America’s Wildlife: Ecology and the American Mind, 1850-1990 (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1997).

31. Susan Flader, Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests (Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press, 1974).

32. Robbert Gottlieb, Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1993).

33. Joel Hagen, Entangled Bank or The Origins of Ecosystem Ecology (NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1992).

34. Samuel Hays, Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955-1985 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1987).

35. Samuel Hays, Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1959).

36. Karl Jacoby, Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2001).

37. Richard Judd, Common Lands, Common People: The Origins of Conservation in Northern New England. (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1997).

38. Sharon Kingsland, The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2005).

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39. Robert Kohler, Landscapes & Labscapes: Exploring the Lab-Field Border in Biology (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2002).

40. Nancy Langston, Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West (Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1995).

41. Linda Lear, Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature (New York: Henry Holt, 1997).42. Curt Meine, Aldo Leopold: His Life and His Work (UW Ph.D. Thesis, 1988).43. Gregg Mitman, The State of Nature: Ecology, Community, and American Social

Thought, 1900-1950 (Chicago: Chicago Univ. Press, 1992).44. Gregg Mitman, Reel Nature: America’s Romance with Wildlife on Film (Cambridge:

Harvard Univ. Press, 1999).45. Jennifer Price, Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America (New York:

Basic Books, 1999).46. Edmund Russell, War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from

World War I to Silent Spring (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001).47. Richard Sellars, Preserving Nature in the National Parks: A History (New Haven:

Yale Univ. Press, 1997).48. Michael Smith, Pacific Visions: California Scientists and the Environment, 1850-

1915 (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1987).49. Mark David Spence, Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making

of the National Parks (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999).50. Richard White, The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (New

York: Hill & Wang, 1995).51. Donald Worster, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (New York: Oxford

Univ. Press, 1979).52. Donald Worster, Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (Cambridge: Univ.

of Cambridge Press, 1994).

Environment and Health:

53. Phil Brown, Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2007).

54. Pete Daniel, Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the post-World War II South (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State Univ. Press in association with Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 2005).

55. Scott Hamilton Dewey, Don’t Breathe the Air: Air Pollution and U.S. Environmental Politics, 1945-1970 (College Station, TX: Texas A&M Univ. Press, 2000).

56. Gregg Mitman, Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape our Lives and Landscapes (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2007).

57. Gregg Mitman, Michelle Murphy, and Christopher Sellers, editors, Landscapes of Exposure: Knowledge and Illness in Modern Environments (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2004).

58. Michelle Murphy, Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers (Durham NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2006).

59. Linda Nash, Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge (Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 2006).

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60. Laura Pulido, Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest (Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press, 1996).

61. Christopher Sellers, Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1997).

62. Julie Sze, Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007).

63. Christian Warren, Brush with Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoning (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2000).

64. Sylvia Hood Washington, Packing Them In: An Archaeology of Environmental Racism in Chicago, 1865-1954 (New York: Lexington Books, 2005).

The Built Environment:

65. William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (New York: Norton, 1991).

66. Mike Davis, Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (New York: Metropolitan Books, 1998).

67. Matthew Gandy, Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002).

68. Andrew Hurley, Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980 (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1995).

69. Ari Kelman, A River and its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2003).

70. Eric Klinenberg, Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2002).

71. Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner, Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution (Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 2002).

72. Martin Melosi, The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present (Baltimore Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2000).

73. Jared Orsi, Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2004).

74. David Pellow, Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002).

75. Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001).

76. David Stradling, Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers and Air Quality in America, 1881-1951 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1999).

77. Susan Strasser, Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash (New York: Metropolitan Books, 1999).

78. Joel Tarr, The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective (Akron: Univ. of Akron Press, 1996).

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