Environmental History

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environmental history
1
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared M. Diamond
12,252 members
184 reviews
3.9
3 Members
aulsmith, kerrygiven, GerrysBookshelf
2
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
7,321 members
199 reviews
4.2
3 Members
inge87, kerrygiven, GerrysBookshelf
3
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
6,605 members
98 reviews
4
3 Members
inge87, spiphany, GerrysBookshelf
4
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
by Aldo Leopold
4,434 members
59 reviews
4.2
3 Members
lquilter, spiphany, kerrygiven
5
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
by Mark Kurlansky
3,253 members
68 reviews
3.9
2 Members
kerrygiven, GerrysBookshelf
6
Arctic Dreams
by Barry Lopez
1,966 members
40 reviews
4.1
2 Members
bluepiano, GerrysBookshelf
7
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
25,140 members
377 reviews
4.1
Member
GerrysBookshelf
8
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
by Charles C. Mann
2,473 members
67 reviews
4.1
Member
GerrysBookshelf
9
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300–1850
by Brian M. Fagan
883 members
12 reviews
3.8
Member
spiphany
10
The Social Conquest of Earth
by Edward O. Wilson
864 members
19 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
spiphany
11
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
by Alfred W. Crosby
807 members
5 reviews
4.2
Member
spiphany
12
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
by Mike Davis
693 members
6 reviews
4.1
Member
aulsmith
13
Wilderness and the American Mind
by Roderick Nash
650 members
1 review
½ 4.3
Member
spiphany
14
The Frontier in American History
by Frederick Jackson Turner
509 members
7 reviews
3.9
Member
spiphany
15
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
by David R. Montgomery
453 members
8 reviews
4.1
Member
GerrysBookshelf
17
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
by Brian Fagan
376 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
kerrygiven
18
The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
by Paul Bogard
354 members
16 reviews
4.2
Member
inge87
19
Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s
by Donald Worster
349 members
1 review
3.9
Member
spiphany
20
Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization
by David Keys
349 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
bluepiano
21
Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage
by William L. Rathje
343 members
9 reviews
4
Member
aulsmith
24
The Conquest of Nature
by David Blackbourn
182 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
spiphany
25
The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea
by Callum Roberts
175 members
4 reviews
4.2
Member
inge87
26
Tambora. The Eruption that Changed the World
by Gillen D'Arcy Wood
154 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
inge87
28
Rat Island: Predators in Paradise and the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue
by William Stolzenburg
81 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
kerrygiven
29
Otter Country
by Miriam Darlington
79 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
inge87
30
Emerald City : An Environmental History of Seattle
by Matthew Klingle
72 members
3.8
Member
TBergen
31
Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment
by Joachim Radkau
63 members
3.9
Member
spiphany
32
Concrete Jungle : A Pop Media Investigation of Death and Survival in Urban Ecosystems
by Mark Dion
51 members
½ 3.6
Member
bluepiano
Explanations
bluepiano: It's an anthology rather than a monograph, but it's otherwise very appropriate.
33
Shallow Water Dictionary
by John Stilgoe
50 members
1 review
½ 4.3
Member
bluepiano
Explanations
bluepiano: Not a dictionary, but a sort of elegy to the coastal marshes of eastern US
34
Thirst: Water and Power in the Ancient World
by Steven Mithen
48 members
1 review
½ 3.3
Member
inge87
36
The End is Nigh: A History of Natural Disasters
by Henrik Svensen
22 members
1 review
3
Member
bluepiano
37
Prairie Time: A Blackland Portrait
by Matt White
14 members
4
Member
inge87
38
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
13,944 members
351 reviews
4.2
39
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
by William Cronon
1,400 members
13 reviews
4.2
40
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
by Wendell Berry
1,292 members
10 reviews
4.2
41
Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
by William Cronon
378 members
3 reviews
4
42
The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River
by Richard White
241 members
4 reviews
4
43
The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century
by William Rosen
235 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
47
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
by William Cronon
1,041 members
14 reviews
½ 4.3
48
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
by Marc Reisner
1,760 members
35 reviews
½ 4.3
49
The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492
by Alfred W. Crosby
532 members
7 reviews
4
50
The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920
by Andrew C. Isenberg
108 members
1 review
3.8
51
Late Victorian Holocausts
by Mike Davis
685 members
7 reviews
4.1
52
A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
by Clive Ponting
335 members
3 reviews
3.9
53
Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History
by Ted Steinberg
189 members
1 review
4.2
54
Flight Maps: Adventures With Nature In Modern America
by Jennifer Price
180 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
55
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
by Tim Flannery
531 members
11 reviews
4
56
Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
by Donald Worster
196 members
4.1
58
The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
by Carolyn Merchant
414 members
4 reviews
4
59
The Ecological Indian: Myth and History
by Shepard III Krech
257 members
2 reviews
3.8
60
The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China
by Mark Elvin
108 members
1 review
½ 4.6
61
Major problems in environmental history
by Carolyn Merchant
95 members
1 review
3.2
65
Civilizations : Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
691 members
8 reviews
3.9
66
The Bulldozer in the Countryside
by Adam Rome
122 members
2 reviews
4
67
Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914
by J. R. McNeill
111 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
68
Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire
by Stephen J. Pyne
74 members
½ 4.5
70
The Earth transformed : an untold history
by Peter Frankopan
398 members
4 reviews
3.8
71
Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash
by Susan Strasser
227 members
1 review
3.9
72
Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America
by Virginia DeJohn Anderson
165 members
1 review
½ 3.7
73
Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West
by Donald Worster
104 members
2 reviews
4
74
Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England
by Carolyn Merchant
100 members
2 reviews
3.9
75
The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States
by Mark Fiege
91 members
1 review
3.1
77
The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History
by Anthony N. Penna
18 members
3
78
The World Without Us
by Alan Weisman
5,946 members
188 reviews
3.8
79
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
by Timothy Egan
1,437 members
67 reviews
4
80
The Great Plains
by Walter Prescott Webb
316 members
1 review
3.9
81
The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado
by Elliott West
251 members
3 reviews
4.2
82
Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas
by Donald Worster
249 members
1 review
4.1
83
Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage
by Heather Rogers
200 members
7 reviews
½ 3.5
84
A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
by Clive Ponting
196 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
87
Vicious: Wolves and Men in America
by Jon T. Coleman
76 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
91
The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail
by W. Jeffrey Bolster
72 members
1 review
4.8
94
What is Environmental History (What is History series)
by J. D. Hughes
42 members
4
96
Environmental History of Latin America
by Shawn William Miller
32 members
4
97
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
4,199 members
122 reviews
½ 4.5
98
Plagues and People
by William H. McNeill
1,895 members
20 reviews
4
99
Landscape and Memory
by Simon Schama
1,632 members
13 reviews
4.1
100
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
by David Quammen
1,454 members
20 reviews
½ 4.4