Vagel C. Keller, Jr., Ph.D.

Suggested Readings: American Environmental History

Near Hazelton, Pennsylvania, July 1999


John M. Barry, Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America (Simon & Shuster, 1997).

Brian Black, Petrolia : The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000)

Nicholas Casner, "Angler Activist: Kenneth Reid, the Izaak Walton League, and the Crusade for Federal Water Pollution Control," Pennsylvania History (66: 4) Autumn 1999, pp. 535 - 553.

Craig E Colten and Peter N. Skinner, The road to Love Canal: Managing Industrial Waste Before EPA (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1996).

Craig E. Colten, "Creating a Toxic Landscape: Chemical Waste Disposal Policy and Practice, 1900 - 1960," Environmental History Review (18:1) Spring 1994, pp. 85 - 116.

Gail Cooper, Air-conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environment, 1900 - 1960 (Baltimore, 1998).

William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1991).

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

Stephen Fox, The American Conservation Movement : John Muir and His Legacy (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985).

Samuel P. Hays, Explorations in Environmental History (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998).

________. Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, l890-1920 (Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1959).

Andrew Hurley, ed. Common Fields: An Environmental History of St. Louis (St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, 1997).

________. Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995).

________. "Creating Ecological Wastelands: Oil Pollution in New York City, 1870 - 1900," Journal of Urban History (20:3) May 1994, pp. 340 - 364.

Terrence Kehoe, Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: From Cooperation to Confrontation (Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997).

Arthur McEvoy, The Fisherman's Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850 - 1980 (New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986)

Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (New York : Oxford University Press, 2000). 35th Anniversary Edition. Originally Published 1964.

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

________. Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment: 1880-1980 (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1981).

Melosi, ed. Pollution and Reform in American Cities, 1870-1930 (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1980).

Theodore Steinberg, Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England (New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991).

Jeffrey K. Stein and Joel A. Tarr, "At the Intersection of Histories: Technology and the Environment, " Technology and Culture (39) October 1998, pp. 601 - 640.

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

Joel A. Tarr, The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective (Akron, OH: University of Akron press, 1996).

Michael Williams, Americans and Their Forests: A Historical Geography (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989).

Donald Worster, Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West (New York : Pantheon Books, 1986).

________. Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West (New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1992).


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