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Mar 23, 2022, 17 tweets

With #ASEH2022 starting today, we’re highlighting some of our recent and upcoming environmental history titles in this thread. Read free chapters for a few and save 30% on titles listed and more with code AAFLYG6. Visit our website for more titles: global.oup.com/academic/categ… 1/17

‘The Wretched Atom’ is a ground-breaking narrative of how the United States offered the promise of nuclear technology to the developing world and its gamble that other nations would use it for peaceful purposes.
Read the introduction here: oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/o… 2/17

Jennifer Eaglin’s ‘Sweet Fuel’ examines the political, environmental, and social ramifications of Brazil's ethanol industry and considers the historical environmental and social costs that come along with alternative fuel industries. 3/17 global.oup.com/academic/produ…

The revised and updated edition of Jeremy Caradonna’s ‘Sustainability’ includes new discussion of developments in climate activism including Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion. Publishing in May, it’s available to pre-order now. 4/17 global.oup.com/academic/produ…

In his new book ‘Canadians and Their Natural Environment’ James Murton develops a framework for analyzing Canadian #EnvHist. 5/17 global.oup.com/academic/produ…

‘Rivers of the Sultan’ is the first book-length history of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the period after the Mongol conquest.
Read the introduction here: oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/o… 6/17

Publishing next month and co-authored by Philip J. Morgan, John R. McNeill, Matthew Mulcahy, and Stuart B. Schwartz ‘Sea and Land’ is magisterial synthetic work about one of the richest environments in the world. #ASEH2022 7/17 global.oup.com/academic/produ…

And publishing next week, @davidsilkenat’s ‘Scars on the Land’ provides a history of slavery in the American South, covering the colonial period through the Civil War. 8/17 global.oup.com/academic/produ…

In her upcoming book ‘The Nature of Slavery’ Katherine Johnston shows the ways that a language of climate and labor developed into a language of race. #ASEH2022 9/17 global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Charles Halvorson’s book ‘Valuing Clean Air’ argues for the role and the significance of environmental regulation in modern American history.
Read the introduction here: oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/o… #ASEH2022 10/17

‘Our Gigantic Zoo’ recounts the history of the creation of the Serengeti National Park as an internationally renowned conservation site. 11/17 global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Alan D. Roe’s ‘Into Russian Nature’ covers a wide geographical scope, from European Russia to Siberia and the Far East, and places Russia into the global story of environmental protection in the 20th and 21st centuries. 12/17 global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Daniel Headrick’s ‘Humans versus Nature’ stresses the adversarial relations between humans and the rest of nature and the unintended consequences of human actions that threaten humanity and the Earth. 13/17 global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Camping is more than a niche vacation practice but connected to core American ideals about nature, the nation, and democracy. #ASEH2022
Read the introduction from Phoebe Young’s ‘Camping Grounds’ here: oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/o… 14/17

In her recent book ‘Rural Inventions’ Sarah Farmer provides nuanced understanding of rural France that goes beyond the static, picture postcard vision of the French countryside. 15/17 global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Published earlier this year, ‘A Strategic Nature’ offers an as-yet untold account of the promotional agents who have influenced public perception of the environment since the beginning of the twentieth century. global.oup.com/academic/produ… #ASEH2022 16/17

Now available in paperback, @Astrid_M_Eckert’s ‘West Germany and the Iron Curtain’ offers an #EnvHist of the German Iron Curtain and addresses the consequences of the inter-German border. global.oup.com/academic/produ… #ASEH2022 17/17

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