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Top Journals in Envrionmental History
Resources from the Course Syllabus
Introductory volumes:
- Andrew Isenberg, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History, Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13081675
- Emily O’Gorman, William San Martín, Mark Carey, and Sandra Swart, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History, New York, NY: Routledge, 2024. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003189350Links to an external site..
- Daniel R. Headrick, Humans versus Nature: A Global Environmental History, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Donald J. Hughes, What Is Environmental History? Cambridge: Polity, 2006.
- Edmund Burke and Kenneth Pomeranz, The Environment and World History, University of California Press, 2009. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb30978.0001.001Links to an external site..
- Stephen Mosley, The Environment in World History, New York: Routledge, 2024: https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/17774810
- Joachim Radkau, Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment. Washington, D.C.: Cambridge; New York: German Historical Institute; Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- John F. Richards, The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio14195339.001.
Sourcebooks:
- Libby Robin, ed. The Future of Nature: Documents of Global Change New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14084660?counter=1
- Chris Magoc, Environmental Issues in American History: A Reference Guide with Primary Documents. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2006. https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/5633476
- Joshua Howe, ed. Making Climate Change History: Primary Sources from Global Warming’s Past. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14121652
- Carolyn Merchant, ed. Green versus Gold: Sources in California’s Environmental History. Electronic resource. Washington, D.C: Island Press, 1998. http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio14090330.