Reference Works
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The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History
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Call Number: History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library GF501 .M47 2002Publication Date: 2002Covers major themes and debates of the field of environmental history, drawing on climactic and geological data, court records, archaeological digs, and the writings of naturalists, as well as federal and state economic and resource development and conservation policy. Includes a chronology of major event and an extensive bibliography including films, videos, and digital resources. -
American Environmental History
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Call Number: History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library Stacks GF503 .A445 2003Publication Date: 2003This compilation of seminal essays and primary documents introduces students to the most exciting scholarship and writing on the of environmental history in the United States. -
Encyclopedia of American Environmental History
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Call Number: Q. 333.720973 En19ISBN: 0816067937Publication Date: 2011 -
Water in North American Environmental History
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Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 202225 cases studies that explore the range of uses and perceptions of water throughout Canadian, Mexican, and United States history. -
The Environment Since 1945
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Call Number: Funk ACES Library Stacks 304.20973 L971ePublication Date: 2013Examines numerous controversies in environmental politics and policy since 1945, including the Donora smog event of 1948, building dams in national parks, the passage of the National Environmental Protection Act, the banning of DDT, the Love Canal crisis, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Makah whale hunt, and environmental racism. -
The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment
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Call Number: SSHEL HC79.E5 R6749 2022 / OnlinePublication Date: 2021Selection of current scholarship that considers ecological issues and crises from the perspective of political economy. -
Water in North American Environmental History
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Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 202225 cases studies that explore the range of uses and perceptions of water throughout Canadian, Mexican, and United States history.
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Encyclopedia of World Environmental History byCall Number: Q. 304.203 En192ISBN: 0415937329Publication Date: 20043 vols.
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Encyclopedia of Environment and Society byCall Number: 304.2 ONLINEISBN: 9781412956277Publication Date: 2007 (Editor)Online version of the 5 volume original. Signed entries with bibliographies.
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Encyclopedia of Global Change: Environmental Change and Human Society byCall Number: Q. 363.7 En192ISBN: 0195108256Publication Date: 20012 vols. Signed entries.
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Water and the Environment Since 1945: Global Perspectives byCall Number: 363.7 ONLINEISBN: 1558624139Publication Date: 2001
Bibliographies and Other Guides to Sources
Oxford Bibliographies
The Oxford Bibliographies are online, carefully compiled and annotated by scholars in the subject under consideration. They are subdivided by topic or source type (e.g. overviews, case studies, primary sources), with brief, almost encyclopedic essays introducing the sub-topic.
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Oxford Bibliography of Environmental ScienceSee especially the cluster of entries under Environmental History, but also Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, Environmental Issues and Problems, and Environmentalist Policy, Governance and Law.
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Oxford Bibliography of Indigenous KnowledgeSee especially the sections on Ecology and Environments, and Climate.
Related Library Research Guides
Bibliographies
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Conserving America: A Bibliographical Buide to Printed Material in the British Library Relating to American Environmental History and Thought byCall Number: 016.36370973 W617CISBN: 071234411XPublication Date: 1996