The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of the most innovative and important new approaches to history, one that bridges the human and natural world, the humanities and the sciences. With the current trend towards internationalizing history, environmental history is perhaps the quintessential approach to studying subjects outside the nation-state model, with pollution, global warming, and other issues
affecting the earth not stopping at national borders. With 25 essays, this Handbook is global in scope and innovative in organization, looking at the field thematically through such categories as climate,
disease, oceans, the body, energy, consumerism, and international relations.
Author Biography:
Andrew C. Isenberg is Professor of History at Temple University. He is the author of The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920, Mining California: An Ecological History, and Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life, and the editor of The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space. Contributors: Thomas Andrews, University of Colorado at Boulder . Emily Brock, University of South Carolina Kathleen A. Brosnan, University of OklahomaMark Carey, University of
OregonConnie Y. Chiang, Bowdoin College Lawrence Culver, Utah State UniversityDiana K. Davis, University of California, DavisWilliam Deverell, University of Southern CaliforniaKurk Dorsey, University of New HampshireAndrew R. Graybill, Southern Methodist UniversityMarcus Hall, University of ZurichAndrew C. Isenberg, Temple UniversityMatthew Klingle, Bowdoin CollegeNancy Langston, Michigan Technological UniversityThomas Lekan, University of South CarolinaMichael Lewis, Salisbury UniversityLinda Nash, University of WashingtonSara B. Pritchard, Cornell UniversitySteven Stoll, Fordham UniversityPaul S.
Sutter, University of Colorado at BoulderJames Morton Turner, Wellesley CollegeNancy C. Unger, Santa Clara UniversityBrett Walker, Montana State UniversityLouis Warren, University of California, DavisFrank Zelko, University of VermontThomas Zeller, University of Maryland, College Park