James C. Williams’s history of energy development and use in California.
Books & Profiles
Energy and the Making of Modern California
The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective
A collection of essays exploring the production and disposal of wastes in the American city since 1850.
Water: A Natural History
An environmental history of waterways in the United States.
Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century
Mark Dowie’s provocative critique of the mainstream American environmental movement.
Mesopotamian Civilization: The Material Foundations
Presents Mesopotamian civilization “from the ground up,” including with reference to a range of climatic and environmental factors.
Roundtable Review of Evolutionary History by Edmund Russell
Russell employs the notion of the coevolution of plants, animals, and microorganisms to explain the causes and consequences of a broad range of events.
Changing Deserts: Integrating People and Their Environment
This book draws on the diversity of papers on deserts and drylands presented at the first Oxford Interdisciplinary Deserts Conference in March 2010.
Indigenous Knowledge
This book investigates how indigenous peoples from various cultures interact with and conceptualize their environments, past and present.
Roundtable Review of Toxic Bodies by Nancy Langston
In Toxic Bodies Langston tells us of the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES), a hormone disruptor that doctors prescribed to pregnant women for decades in the mid-twentieth century.
Roundtable Review of The Invention of Ecocide by David Zierler
In this book David Zierler tries to explain the success of the campaign against herbicidal warfare that followed the start of Operation Ranch Hand in 1961.