Oxford Handbook of Environmental History

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: Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/16/2014
Pages: 800
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.35lbs
Size: 9.80h x 7.00w x 2.50d
ISBN: 9780195324907

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2015 pg. 1338

About the Author

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.

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