SELECTED GLOBAL
ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORIES:
Peter Atkins, et al. People, Land & Time: An Historical
Introduction to the Relations Between Landscape, Culture and Environment
(London: Arnold, 1998/2004).
Stephen Boyden. Biohistory: The Interplay Between Human Society
and the Biosphere, Past and Present (Paris: UNESCO, 1992).
Edmund Burke III and Kenneth Pomeranz, eds.. The Environment
and World History, 1500 (Berkeley: University of
California Press, In Preparation).
David Christian. Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
(University of California Press, 2004).
William Cronon, ed. Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human
Place in Nature (London: W. W. Norton, 1996, 1995).
Alfred Crosby. The Columbian Exchange (Westport CT: Greenwood
Press, 1972).
————. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological
Expansion of Europe, 900 (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2004).
Harm de Blij. Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing
America (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).
Warren Dean. With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of
the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1995).
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel (New York: W. W.
Norton, 1997).
————. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail
or Succeed (New York: Viking, 2005).
Richard H. Grove. Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical
Island Edens, and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600 (Cambridge;
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles. The Earth Transformed: An
Introduction to Human Impacts on the Environment (Oxford,
Blackwell, 1997).
Ramachandra Guha. Environmentalism: A Global History (New
York: Longman, 2000).
J. Donald Hughes. An Environmental History of the World: Humankind's
Changing Role in the Community of Life (London: Routledge,
2001).
Shepard Krech III. The Ecological Indian: Myth and History
(New York, 2000).
Shepard Krech III, et al., eds. Encyclopedia of World Environmental
History, vol. 1 (New York: Routledge, 2004).
Lawrence Hall of Science, U. C. Berkeley. Global Systems Science
-Integrated, cross-discipline curriculum for high school.
http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/gss/
(Lawrence Hall of Science, 2007.)
John R. McNeill. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental
History of the Twentieth-Century World (New York: W. W. Norton,
2000).
John R. McNeill and William H. McNeill. The Human Web
(New York & London: W.W. Norton, 2003).
John R. McNeill and Verena Winiwarter (eds.). Soils and Societies:
Perspectives from Environmental History (Isle of Harris: The
White Horse Press, 2006).
William B. Meyer. Human Impact on the Earth (New York:
CUP, 1996).
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Ecosystems and Human Well-Being
(Washington, Covelo, London: The Island Press, 2005).
Joy A. Palmer, ed. Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment (London
& New York: Routledge, 2001).
Michael Pollen. Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four
Meals (Penguin Press, 2006).
Kenneth Pomeranz. The Great Divergence: Europe, China, and
the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2000).
Clive Ponting. A Green History of the World: The Environment
and the Collapse of Great Civilizations (London: Penguin,
1991).
John F. Richards. The Unending Frontier: An Environmental
History of the Early Modern World (Berkeley, Los Angeles:
University of California Press, 2003).
Neil Roberts. The Holocene: An Environmental History (Oxford:
Basil Blackwell, 1989).
W. M. S. Russell. Man, Nature and History (London: Aldus,
1967).
I. G. Simmons. Changing the Face of the Earth: Culture, Environment,
History (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989).
————. Environmental History: A Concise Introduction
(Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1993).
W. L. Thomas, et al., eds. Man's Role in Changing the Face
of the Earth (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956).
B. L. Turner II, et al., eds.The Earth as Transformed by Human
Action: Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere over the
Past 300 Years (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
John Vogler and Mark F. Imber. The Environment and International
Relations (London: Routledge, 1996).
Benjamin Wheeler, et al. It's All Connected (Seattle:
Facing the Future: People and the Planet, 2005).
World History for Us All: A web-based model curriculum for
world history in middle and high schools - a cooperative project
of the National Center for History in the Schools and San Diego
State University.
-"Humans and Environment” theme runs through all the
Big Era sections
http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/
Donald Worster.The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History
and the Ecological Imagination (New York : Oxford University
Press, 1993).
SELECTED
ENERGY HISTORIES: OIL
Larry Everest. Oil, Power and Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global
Agenda (Common Courage Press, 2004).
Richard Heinberg. The Party's Over: Oil, War And The Fate
Of Industrial Societies (New Society Publishers, 2005).
Dilip Hiro. Blood of the Earth: The Battle for the World's
Vanishing Oil Resources (Nation Books, 2006).
Michael Klare. Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences
of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum (Owl
Books; Reprint edition, 2005).
James Howard Kunstler. "Running on Fumes" in The
Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and
Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Grove
Press, 2006).
Paul M. Lubeck, Michael J. Watts, Ronnie Lipschutz. "Convergent
Interests: U. S. Energy Security and the Security of Nigerian
Democracy" International Policy Report (Publication
of the Center for International Policy, Feb. 2007).
Paul Roberts. The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New
World (Mariner Books; Reprint edition, 2005).
Daniel Yergin. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money &
Power (Free Press, 1993). (See also under videos.)
SELECTED
ENERGY HISTORIES: WATER ON MEXICO/CALIFORNIA BORDER:
Norris Hundley, Jr. The Great Thirst:
Californians and Water A History (University of California
Press, 2001).
Marc Reisner. Cadillac Desert: The American
West and Its Disappearing Water (Penguin Books, 1993).
Articles:
Randal C. Archibold. "A Border Dispute That Focuses On Water,
Not Immigration" (New York Times, July 7, 2006).
Special Report: Envirotech. "Treasure
From The Deep: Drinking Water" (Business Week, May
1, 2003).
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VIDEO:
Crude Impact (Dir. James Jandak Wood) Grade level: 10-12,
College, Adult
http://www.crudeimpact.com
Exploration of the interconnection between human domination of
the planet and the discovery and use of oil, Crude Impact
exposes our deep-rooted dependency on the availability of fossil
fuel energy and examines the dire implications of the pending
threat of global peak oil.
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (Dirs. M. Cooper, E.
Schoedsack, M. Harrison, Persia, 1925). Grade Level: all.
A documentary on the migration of the Bakhtiari tribe of Persia,
filmed by the directors of the original King Kong. http://milestonefilms.com/movie.php/grass/
Empires of Industry - Black Gold: The Story of Oil (History
Channel A&E Home Video, 2005).
The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the
American Dream, (Dir. Gregory Greene, 2004)
http://www.endofsuburbia.com/
Are today's suburbs destined to become the slums of tomorrow?
And what can be done NOW, individually and collectively, to avoid
The End of Suburbia ?
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power (TV
miniseries, 1992. Directed by Maxine Baker and based on Daniel
Yergin's book of the same name.)
This exciting and entertaining eight-part series, based on Daniel
Yergin's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, captures the panoramic history
of the biggest industry in the world. Shot on location in Azerbaijan,
Egypt, England, Indonesia, Japan, Kuwait, Mexico, Russia, Scotland,
Turkey, and the United States, the series features fascinating
characters, archival footage, and interviews with the people who
shaped the oil industry. Yergin appears on camera throughout the
series to discuss oil's impact on politics, economics, and the
environment.
Thirst (Dirs. Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman, 2004).
Grade Level: 10-12, College, Adult
Is water part of a shared "commons", a human right for
all people? Or is it a commodity to be bought, sold, and traded
in a global marketplace? Thirst tells the stories of communities
in Bolivia, India, and the United States that are asking these
fundamental questions, as water becomes the most valuable global
resource of the 21st Century. A character-driven documentary with
no narration, Thirst reveals how the debate over water
rights between communities and corporations can serve as a catalyst
for explosive and steadfast resistance to globalization. Study
guide available.
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/thirst.html
