What Is Environmental History?

What is environmental history? It is a kind of history that seeks understanding of human beings as they have lived, worked, and thought in relationship to the rest of nature through the changes brought by time. In this new edition of his seminal student textbook, J. Donald Hughes provides a masterful overview of the thinkers, topics, and perspectives that have come to constitute the exciting discipline that is environmental history. He does so on a global scale, drawing together disparate trends from a rich variety of countries into a unified whole, illuminating trends and key themes in the process. Those already familiar with the discipline will find themselves invited to think about the subject in a new way. This new edition has been updated to reflect recent developments, trends, and new work in environmental history, as well as a brand new note on its possible future. Students and scholars new to environmental history will find the book both an indispensable guide and a rich source of inspiration for future work. — Back cover.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 200 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked What Is Environmental History?? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked What Is Environmental History?. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. United States West Coast: An Environmental History Shares effect of human beings on, nature, environmental degradation
  2. China Shares effect of human beings on, nature, environmental degradation
  3. Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History Shares effect of human beings on, nature, human ecology
  4. The Pacific Raincoast Shares effect of human beings on, nature, human ecology

“If you want more of the same (history about nature), start with these.”

  1. History of Humanity
  2. Wild at Heart
  3. The World Hunt: An Environmental History of the Commodification of Animals
  4. Missing in the Minarets: The Search for Walter A. Starr, Jr.

“If it was the effect of human beings on that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The Global Politics of the Environment: Second Edition
  2. Bison and People on the North American Great Plains
  3. Human dependence on nature
  4. The grasslands of the United States

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Northern Europe
  2. First Along the River: A Brief History of the U.S. Environmental Movement
  3. Scarcity in the Modern World
  4. Climate Change