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Environmental History Reading List

**Beinart, William and Peter Coates. 1995. Environment and History: the Taming of Nature in the USA and South Africa. New York: Routledge. #Beinart, William. and JoAnn McGregor, eds. 2003. Social History & African Environments. Athens: Ohio University Press. Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 13. *McCann, James C. 1999. Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land: An Environmental History of Africa, 1800-1990. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. **Cronon, William. 1991. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. *Cronon, William. “The Uses of Environmental History.” Environmental History Review 17, no. 3 (1993): 1-22. *Crosby, Alfred. 1986. Ecological Imperialism: the Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. New York: Cambridge University Press. *Donald Worster. 1979. Dust Bowl: the Southern Plains in the 1930s. New York: Oxford University Press. #Worster, Donald ed. 1988. The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on Modern Environmental History. New York: Cambridge University Press. Worster: “The Vulnerable Earth: Toward a Planetary History: Tucker: “The Depletion of India’s Forests under British Imperialism: Planters, Foresters, and Peasants in Assam and Kerala Weiskel: “Toward an Archaeology of Colonialism: Elements in the Ecological Transformation of the Ivory Coast” Earle: “The Myth of the Southern Soil Miner: Macrohistory, Agricultural Innovation, and Environmental Change” McEvoy: “Toward an Interactive Theory of Nature and Culture: Ecology, Production, and Cognition in the California Fishing Industry” Castro Herrera, Guillermo. 1997. “The Environmental Crisis and the Tasks of History in Latin America.” Environment and History 3: 1-18. Houghton, R. A., D. S. Lefkowitz, and D. L. Stole. 1991. “Changes in the Landscape of Latin America Between 1850 and 1985.” Forest Ecology and Management 38: 143-72. *Sutter, Paul. 2003. “Reflections: What Can U.S. Environmental Historians Learn from NonU.S. Environmental Historiography.” Environmental History 8, no.1: 109-129.

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**White, Richard. 2004. From Wilderness to Hybrid Landscapes: the Cultural Turn in Environmental History. Historian 66: 557-564. Gadgil, Madhav and Ramachandra Guha. 1993. This fissured land: an ecological history of India. Berkeley: University of California Press. McCann, James C. 1999. "Climate and Causation in African History." International Journal of African Historical Studies, 32: 261-280. Steinhart, Edward. 1989. "Hunters, Poachers and Gamekeepers: Towards a Social History of Hunting in Colonial Kenya." Journal of African History 30: 247-64. Politics of science ** Bonneuil, Christophe. 2000. “Development as Experiment: Science and State Building in Late Colonial and Postcolonial Africa, 1930-1970.” Osiris, 2d ser., 15: 258-281. #Beinart, William. 2003. The Rise of Conservation in South Africa: Settlers, Livestock, and the Environment 1770-1950. New York: Oxford University Press. **Jacobs, Nancy J. 2003. Environment, Power, and Injustice: A South African History. New York: Cambridge University Press. **Langston, Nancy. 1995. Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: the Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. **Showers, Kate Barger. 2005. Imperial gullies: soil erosion and conservation in Lesotho. Athens: Ohio University Press. Anderson, David. 1984. "Depression, Dust Bowl, Demography, and Drought: The Colonial State and Soil Conservation in East Africa during the 1930s," African Affairs, 83: 321-43. **van Sittert, Lance. 2000. “The Seed Blows About in Every Breeze”: Noxious Weed Eradication in the Cape Colony, 1860-1909. Journal of Southern African Studies 26, no. 4: 655-674. Arnold, David. 2006. The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 18001856. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Webb, James L.A., jr. 1995. Desert Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change Along the Western Sahel, 1600-1850. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. Precolonial and Colonial encounters

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**Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983. *Harms, Robert. 1987. Games Against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press. *Schoenbrun, David. 1998. A Green Place, a Good Place: Agrarian Change, Gender, and Social Identity in the Great Lakes Region to the 15th Century. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Denevan, William M . 1992. “The pristine myth: the landscape of the Americas in 1492.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 82, no. 3: 369-85. White, Richard. 1983. The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajo. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press. Politics of conservation and development **Carruthers, Jane. 2002. The Kruger National Park; James Clarke, Coming Back to Earth: South Africa’s Changing Environment. Houghton, South Africa: Jacana (Pty) Ltd.. Dean, Warren. 1995. With Broadax and Firebrand: the Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Coastal Forest. Berkeley: University of California Press. Giblin, James. 1992. The Politics of Environmental Control in Northeastern Tanzania, 18401940. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. * Hecht, Susanna and Alexander Cockburn. The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon. **Jacoby, Karl. 2001. Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Simonian, Lane. 1995. Defending the Land of the Jaguar: a History of Conservation in Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press. **Spence, Mark David. 1999. Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks. New York: Oxford University Press. #Anderson, David and Richard Grove, eds. 1987. Conservation in Africa: People, Policies and Practice. New York: Cambridge University Press.

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Guha, Ramachandra. 2000. The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya. Berkeley: University of California Press.

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Ideas of Nature – Western and non-Western Proposal reading #Guha, Ramachandra. 2000. Environmentalism: A Global History. New York: Longman. Maddox, Gregory, James L. Giblin, and Isaria N. Kimambo. 1996. Custodians of the Land: Ecology and Culture in the History of Tanzania. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. Selections. Moore, Donald S. 1998. “Clear Waters and Muddied Histories: Environmental History and the Politics of Community in Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands.” Journal of Southern African Studies 24, no. 2: 377-403. *Williams, Raymond. “Nature.” In Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. London: Fontana, 1976: 184-189. Arnold, David and Ramachandra Guha. 1995. Nature, culture, imperialism : essays on the environmental history of South Asia. Delhi : Oxford University Press. Selections. #Cronon, William, ed. 1996. Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. New York: W.W. Norton and Company. Chapters 2, 3, 10, 11, 15, 16. **Giles-Vernick, Tamara. 2002. Cutting the Vines of the Past: Environmental Histories of the Central African Rain Forest. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press. *Grove, Richard. 1995. Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860. New York: Cambridge University Press. Meggers, Betty J. 1996. Amazonia: Man and Culture in a Counterfeit Paradise. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. Adams. Jonathan S. and Thomas O. McShane. The Myth of Wild Africa: Conservation without Illusion. Berkeley: University of California Press. Sauer, Carl Ortwin. 1966. The early Spanish Main. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Agricultural and Food Histories – local and through exchange Proposal reading Vaughan, Megan. 1987. The Story of an African Famine: Gender and Famine in TwentiethCentury Malawi. New York: Cambridge University Press. Prelim only reading

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Carney, Judy. 2001. Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. *McCann, James C. 1995. People of the Plow: an Agricultural history of Ethiopia, 1800-1990. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. **McCann, James C. 2005. Maize and Grace: Africa’s Encounter with a New World Crop, 15002000. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Melville, Elinor G.K. 1994, A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico. New York: Cambridge University Press. Mintz, Sidney W. 1985. Sweetness and Power: the Place of Sugar in Modern History. New York: Penguin Books. # Soluri, John. 2005. Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States. Austin: University of Texas Press. Spear, Thomas. 1997. Mountain Farmers: Moral Economies of Land and Agricultural Development in Arusha and Meru. Berkeley: University of California Press. Guyer, Jane I. 1997. An African Niche Economy: Farming to Feed Ibadan, 1968-88. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute McCann, James C. 1991. "Review Article: Agriculture and African History." Journal of African History, 32: 507-14.

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