Books by Myrna I. Santiago
“What I admire about it is, first, the detailed deep-dive research. Kate Brown did some of that as well, and I know how hard that is. Second, she was the first environmental historian who brought labor history into the same lens as environmental history.” Read more...
The best books on Environmental History
John R McNeill, Historian
Interviews where books by Myrna I. Santiago were recommended
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The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail
by W. Jeffrey Bolster -
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Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
by Kate Brown -
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Ecological Imperialism
by Alfred Crosby -
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The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World
by John F. Richards -
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The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938
by Myrna I. Santiago
The best books on Environmental History, recommended by John R McNeill
The best books on Environmental History, recommended by John R McNeill
Environmental history is the study of the relationship between society and the natural world—both in terms of human impacts on the environment, and the constraints placed upon cultures by the landscapes they live in. Here, John R. McNeill, a pioneer of the field, recommends five of the best environmental history books with ambition, engaging prose, and heft.
