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The Beach Cure

A History of Healing on Northeastern Shores

By Meghan Crnic. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

How sun and sea air were prescribed as medicine on America's Eastern coast

For centuries, the ocean was seen as a place of danger and work, but by the late nineteenth century, northeastern shores of the...

Contaminated Country

Nuclear Colonialism and Aboriginal Resistance in Australia

By Jessica Urwin. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

The destruction and defiance that swirled around Australia's embrace of the world's nuclear order

Though a nonnuclear state, Australia was embroiled in the military and civilian nuclear energy programs of numerous global powers across the twentieth...

Nature Unfurled

Asian American Environmental Histories

By Connie Y. Chiang

Explores Asian Americans' diverse connections and interactions with the natural world

As immigrants and laborers, gardeners and artists, activists and vacationers, Asian Americans have played, worked, and worshipped in nature for almost two centuries, forging enduring...

Animating Central Park

A Multispecies History

By Dawn Day Biehler. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

The entangled human and more-than-human histories of one of the world’s iconic urban green spaces

From deer and beavers to “free range” pigs and goats in and around Seneca Village, what we now know as Central...

Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory

Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest

By Casey A. Huegel. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

Housewives, hard hats, and an Ohio town’s restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyard

In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio’s outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold...

Seeds of Control

Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea

By David Fedman. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

Conservation as a tool of colonialism in early twentieth-century Korea

Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905–1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the peninsula’s extensive mountains and forests....

Fir and Empire

The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China

By Ian M. Miller. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

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Restores China’s place in forest history

The disappearance of China’s naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country’s history, one often blamed on imperial demand for...

Capturing Glaciers

A History of Repeat Photography and Global Warming

By Dani Inkpen. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

Explores the photography of climate change

Photographs do not simply speak for themselves. Their meanings are built through interpretive frameworks that shift over time. Today, photographs of receding glaciers are one of the most well recognized...

The Toxic Ship

The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade

By Simone M. Müller. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

An infamous voyage explores the hazardous waste trade and environmental justice

In 1986 the Khian Sea, carrying thousands of tons of incinerator ash from Philadelphia, began a two-year journey, roaming the world's oceans in search of...

Insect Histories of East Asia

By David A. Bello, Daniel Burton-Rose

Spotlights insects in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean history from the exalted to the despised

Interactions between people and animals are attracting overdue attention in diverse fields of scholarship, yet insects still creep within the shadows of...

Charged

A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future

By James Morton Turner. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

Winner of the 24th Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize
Finalist for the 2023 Cundill History Prize
Gold Medal Recipient, Nautilus Book Awards, Sustainability

To achieve fossil fuel independence,...

The Camphor Tree and the Elephant

Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia

By Faizah Zakaria. Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan

Uncovers a spiritual dimension in the transition to the Anthropocene

What is the role of religion in shaping interactions and relations between the human and nonhuman in nature? Why are Muslim and Christian organizations generally not...

People of the Ecotone

Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America

By Robert Michael Morrissey. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

Winner of the 2023 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize for best book in western environmental history from the Western History Association

Indigenous power in a significant cultural and ecological borderland

In People of the Ecotone, Robert Morrissey...

Communist Pigs

An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall

By Thomas Fleischman. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

The pig played a key role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles. By the mid-1980s, East Germany produced more pork per capita than West...

Footprints of War

Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam

By David Andrew Biggs. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

When American forces arrived in Vietnam, they found themselves embedded in historic village and frontier spaces already shaped by many past conflicts. American bases and bombing targets followed spatial and political logics influenced by the...

Wetlands in a Dry Land

More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin

By Emily O'Gorman. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

Winner of the Inaugural Book Prize from the Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand Environmental History Network

A compelling environmental history of a critical ecosystem under threat

In the name of agriculture, urban growth, and disease control, humans...

The Organic Profit

Rodale and the Making of Marketplace Environmentalism

By Andrew N. Case. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

Where did the curious idea of buying one’s way to sustainability come from? In no small part, the answer lies in the story of entrepreneurial health reformer J. I. Rodale, his son Robert Rodale, and...

Fire

A Brief History

By Stephen J. Pyne

Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pyne—named...

Seismic City

An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake

By Joanna L. Dyl. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

On April 18, 1906, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco region, igniting fires that burned half the city. The disaster in all its elements — earthquake, fires, and recovery — profoundly disrupted the urban...

Smell Detectives

An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America

By Melanie A. Kiechle. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenth-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary...