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Classics in the Field of Environmental Thought

  • Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire. New York: Ballantine Books, 1968.
  • Berman, Morris. The Reenchantment of the World. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981.
  • Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
  • Clark, Mary E., Ariadne's Thread: The Search for New Modes of Thinking. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.
  • Commoner, Barry. The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology. Westminster, MD: Random House, 1971.
  • Darwin, Charles. The Voyage of the Beagle, abridged ed. London: Penguin Classics, 1989.
  • Dasmann, Raymond Frederick. The Destruction of California. New York: Macmillan Company, 1965.
  • DeVall, Bill, and George Sessions. Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered. Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs M. Smith, 1985.
  • Ehrlich, Paul R. The Population Bomb. New York: Ballantine Books, 1968.
  • Ehrlich, Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich. Healing the Planet. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1991.
  • Farber, Paul Lawrence. Finding Order in Nature: The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E. O. Wilson. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
  • Fox, Stephen. The American Conservation Movement: John Muir and His Legacy. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.
  • Leopold, Aldo. Sand County Almanac. New York: Oxford University Press, 1949.
  • Lopez, Barry. Crossing Open Ground. New York: Vintage Books, 1988.
  • McKibben, Bill. The End of Nature. New York: Random House, 1989.
  • Muir, John. The Wilderness World of John Muir. Edited by Edwin Way Teale. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954.
  • Naess, Arne. Ecology, Community and Lifestyle. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
  • Orr, David W. Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1992.
  • Schumacher, E.F. Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. London: Blond & Briggs, Ltd., 1973.
  • Wilson, E.O. The Diversity of Life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Specific Countries

Brazil
  • Dean, Warren. Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber: A Study in Environmental History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
China
  • Elvin, Mark. The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006.
  • Guha, Ramachandra. The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000.
Mexico
  • Hayden, Cory. When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.
Indonesia
  • Lowe, Celia. Wild Profusion: Biodiversity Conservation in an Indonesian Archipelago. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.

Books Concerning the Culture of Nature (Environmental Representations and our Perceptions of the Environment)

  • Adams, Ansel, and Nancy Newhall. This is The American Earth. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1960/1968.
  • Browne, Janet. Charles Darwin: Voyaging. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.
  • Buell, Lawrence. The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
  • Burdick, Alan. Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
  • Carson, Rachel. The Sense of Wonder. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.
  • Cartmill, Matt. A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.
  • Cronon, William, ed. Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature. New York: Norton, 1995.
  • Crosby, Alfred W. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
  • Crosby, Alfred W. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492, 30th anniversary ed. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003.
  • Davis, Susan G. Spectacular Nature; Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997.
  • Drayton, Richard H. Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the 'Improvement' of the World. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.
  • Dunaway, Finis. Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005.
  • Evernden, Neil. The Social Creation of Nature. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
  • Findlen, Paula. Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004.
  • Glacken, Clarence J. Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1967.
  • Grove, Richard. Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • Hales, Peter B. William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1988.
  • Haraway, Donna. Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Societies. New York: Routledge, 1990.
  • Harrison, Robert Pogue. Forests: The Shadow of Civilization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
  • Holm, Jean and John Bowker, eds.. Attitudes to Nature. New York: Pinter, 1994.
  • Irwin, Allen. Sociology and the Environment. Cambridge, England: Polity Press, 2001.
  • Jacoby, Karl. Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation. Berkeley, CA: University of California, 2001.
  • Jardine, N. and James Secord, eds. Cultures of Natural History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • Kurlansky, Mark. Salt: A World History. New York: Penguin, 2003.
  • Maathai, Wangari. The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience. New York: Lantern Books, 2003.
  • Maathai, Wangari. Unbowed: A Memoir. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
  • McNeill, J. R. Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.
  • Merchant, Carolyn. The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1980.
  • Miller, Angela. The Empire of the Eye: Landscape Representation and American Cultural Politics, 1825-1875. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993.
  • Miller, David and Peter H. Reill, eds. Vision of Empire: Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • Nash, Roderick Frazier. Wilderness and the American Mind, 3rd ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982.
  • Nicolson, Marjorie Hope. Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite. New York: Norton, 1959.
  • Norwood, Vera, and Janice Monk, eds. The Desert is No Lady: Southwestern Landscapes in Women's Writing and Art. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987.
  • Novak, Barbara. Nature and Culture: American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
  • Oelschlaeger, Max. The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003.
  • Pielou, E.C. After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
  • Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. London: Routledge, 1992.
  • Price, Jennifer. Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America. New York: Basic Books, 1999.
  • Rome, Adam. The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  • Sandweiss, Martha A. Print the Legend: Photography and the American West. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002.
  • Schama, Simon. Landscape and Memory. New York: Knopf, 1995.
  • Shepard, Paul. Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature. New York: Knopf, 1967.
  • Smith, Henry Nash. Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth. New York: Vintage Books, 1957.
  • Snyder, Gary. A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics and Watersheds. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1995.
  • Solnit, Rebecca. Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities. New York: Nation Books, 2005.
  • Stepan, Nancy Leys. Picturing Tropical Nature. Ithaca, NY: Reaktion Books, 2006.
  • Takacs, David. The Idea of Biodiversity: Philosophies of Paradise. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
  • Tsing, Anna. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.
  • Tuan, Yi-Fu. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1977.
  • Williams, Raymond. The Country and the City. London: Hogarth Press, 1985.
  • Wohlforth, Charles. The Whale and the Supercomputer. New York: North Point Press, 2004.
  • Worster, Donald. Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas, 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
 
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