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 seminal 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. Students and scholars new to environmental history will find the book both an indispensable guide and a rich source of inspiration for future work. Book jacket. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

J. Donald Hughes is John Evans Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Denver, Colorado Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

1 Defining Environmental History	1
Introduction	1
The Themes of Environmental History	3
Among the Scholarly Disciplines	8
Environmental History and the Older History	15
2 Forerunners of Environmental History	18
Introduction	18
The Ancient World	18
Medieval and Early Modern Environmental Thought	26
The Early Twentieth Century	32
3 The Birth and Growth of Environmental History in the United States	36
Introduction	36
American History from Conservation to Environment	37
Strands of Environmental History in the United States	41
Collaborators with Environmental History	48
4 Local, Regional, and National Environmental Histories	53
Introduction	53
Canada	55
Europe	56
The Mediterranean	62
India, South and Southeast Asia	64
East Asia	66
Australasia and the Pacific Islands	67
Africa	71
Latin America	72
The Ancient World and the Middle Ages	74
Conclusion	75
5 Global Environmental History	77
Introduction	77
Books on World Environmental History	78
Topics of Global Importance	86
Environmental Movements	90
World History Texts	91
Conclusion	92
6 Issues and Directions in Environmental History	94
Introduction	94
Professionalism	94
Advocacy	95
Environmental Determinism	97
Presentism	98
Declensionist Narratives	99
Political-Economic Theory	101
The Next Issues	102
Conclusion	113
7 Thoughts on Doing Environmental History	114
Introduction	114
Guidance in Methodology	114
The Search for Sources	118
Resources	121
Conclusion: The Future of Environmental History	124
Notes	127
Select Bibliography	160
Index	168

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