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Global Environmental History: An Introduction (HI2C4): Bibliography

Bibliography

  • Armitage David and Bashford Alison (eds), Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2014)
  • Arnold David, The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape and Science, 1800-1856 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006)
  • Beattie James, Empire and Imperial anxiety. Health, Science, Art and Conservation in South Asia and Australasia, 1800-1920 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011)
  • Beinart William and Lotte Hughes, Environment and Empire (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009)
  • Bloom Lisa, Gender on Ice: American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions (University of Minnesota Press, 1993)
  • Chakrabarty Dipesh, "The Climate of History: Four Theses," Critical Inquiry (2009), pp. 197–222
  • Chakrabarti Ranjan (ed.), Situating Environmental History (Cornell: Ithaca, 2004)
  • Robin Libby and Steffen Will, "History for the Anthropocene," History Compass, 5 (2007): pp. 1694-95
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  • Curtin Philip D., Death By Migration: Europe's Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989)
  • Cushman Gregory T., Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014)
  • Davis Diana K., Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa, (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2007)
  • Davis Diana K. and Burke Kenneth III, eds., Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2011)
  • Davis Mike, Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World (New York: Verso, 2002)
  • Dean Warren, With Broadax and firebrand. The destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 1995)
  • Dodgen Randall A., Controlling the Dragon: Confucian Engineers and the Yellow River in Late Imperial China (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press 2001)
  • Drayton Richard, Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the 'Improvement' of the World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000)
  • Driver Felix, and Luciana Martins, Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2005)
  • Dunlap, Thomas R., Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999)
  • Elzinga Aant, "Antarctica: the construction of a continent by and for science" in Griffiths Tom and Libby Robin, eds., Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies (Edinburgh: Keele University Press, 1997)
  • Grove Richard H., Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens, and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1660-1860 (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
  • Grove Richard H., Ecology, Climate and Empire: Colonialism and Global Environmental History, 1400-1940 (Cambridge, UK; White Horse Press, 1997)
  • Igler David, The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
  • Johnson David A., et. al, "Forum: Environmental History, Retrospect and Prospect," Pacific Historical Review, 70/1 (2002), pp. 55-111
  • Johnson Walter, River Of Dark Dreams: Slavery And Empire In The Cotton Kingdom (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013)
  • Jones Toby Craig, Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2011)
  • Kumar Deepak, Damodaran Vinita, D’Souza Rohan (eds), The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia (Baskingstoke: Palgrave, 2011)
  • Mauch Christof and Zeller Thomas (eds.), Rivers in History, Perspectives on Waterways in Europe and North America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008)
  • Morris Christopher, The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)
  • Nicholas Thomas, Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010)
  • Radkau Joachim, Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment (2002, trad. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008)
  • Rajan S. Ravi, Modernizing Nature: Forestry and Imperial Eco-Development, 1800-1950 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
  • Shapiro Judith, Mao's War against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
  • Sörlin Sverker and Warde Paul (eds), Nature’s End: History and the Environment (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009)
  • Warde Paul, ‘The invention of sustainability’, Modern Intellectual History, 8 (2011), pp.153-170
  • Warde Paul and Sörlin Sverker, "The Problem of the Problem of Environmental History: A Rereading of the Field and its Purpose," Environmental History, 12/1 (2007): pp. 107–130