Note: This course serves graduate students who wish to have environmental history meet departmental requirements as comparative history. Participation is limited to 2-3 students, all by invitation; see instructor for further information. Alternatively, students may consider European environmental history.

• Introduction

 
• Comparative Prehistories (Choose one)
• Ian Simmons and Michael Tooley, eds., The Environment in British Prehistory
• Janet Davidson, The Prehistory of New Zealand
• Josephine Flood, The Archeology of the Dreamtime
• R.R. Inskeep, The Peopling of Southern Africa
• Tim Flannery, The Future Eaters
• Johannes Iversen, The Development of Denmark's Nature Since the Last Glacial
• Graeme Stevens, New Zealand Prehistory

 
• British Isles (Choose two)
• W.G. Hoskins, The Making of the English Landscape
• Oliver Rackham, The History of the Countryside
• H.C. Darby, An Historical Geography of England Before A.D. 1800
• H.C. Darby, ed., A New Historical Geography of England After 1600

 
• Imperial Narratives
• Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin, eds., Ecology and Empire. Environmental History of Settler Societies
• Richard Grove, Green Imperialism
• _____, Climate, Ecology, and Empire
• John Mackenzie, Empire of Nature
• _____, ed., Imperialism and the Natural World
• David Arnold, The Problem of Nature: Environment, Culture, and European Expansion
• Roderick Nash, "The International Perspective," in Wilderness and the American Mind,3rd ed

 
• Imperial Science (Choose one)
• Robert Stafford, Scientist of Empire: Sir Roderick Murchison, Scientific Exploration, and Victorian Imperialism
• Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
• Lucille Brockway, Science and Colonial Expansion
• Richard Drayton, Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the "Improvement" of the World
• John Gascoigne, Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State, and the Uses of Science in the Age of revolution
• Donal McCraken, Garadens of Empire: Botanical Institutions of the Victorian British Empire

 
• India (Choose two)
• Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha, This Fissured Land. An Ecological History of India
• Ramachandra Guha, The Unquiet Woods. Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya
• Ajay Rawat, ed., History of Forestry in India
• J.F. Richards et al, eds., Historic Land Use and Carbon Estimates for South and Southeast Asia 1880-1980
• Jim Corbett, The Man-Eaters of Kumaon
• K. Sivaramakrishnan, Modern Forests. Statemaking and Environmental Change in Colonial Eastern India

 
• Australia (Choose two)
• Geoffrey Blainey, A Land Half Won
• Geoffrey Bolton, Spoils and Spoilers
• Eric Rolls, They All Ran Wild
• _____, A Million Wild Acres
• _____, Forest and Sea. Australia's Changing Environment
• Tom Griffiths, Hunters and Collectors
• Alan Moorehead, The Fatal Impact: An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840
• A. Grenfell Price, Island Continent
• Michael Williams, The Making of the South Australian Landscape
• J.M. Powell, The Historical Geography of Modern Australia: The Restive Fringe
• _____, Plains of Dreams, Rivers of Destiny

 
• New Zealand (Choose one, plus Crosby essay)
• Alfred Crosby, "New Zealand," in Ecological Imperialism
• Herbert Guthrie-Smith, Tutira. The History of a New Zealand Sheep Farm
• Janet Druett, Exotic Intruders
• R.M. Lockley, Man Against Nature
• Peter McKelvey, Steepland Forests: A Historical Perspective of Protection Forestry in New Zealand

 
• Africa (Choose two)
• Jane Carruthers, The Kruger National Park
• William Beinart and Peter Coates, Environment and History: The Taming of Nature in the USA and South Africa
• David Anderson and Richard Grove, eds., Conservation in Africa: People, Politics, and Practices
• Journal of South African Studies 15(2) (1989): Special Issue on the Politics of Conservation in Southern Africa
• Raymond Bonner, At the Hand of Man

 
• Canada (Choose one)
• R.Peter Gillis and Thomas R. Roach, Lost Initiatives: Canada's Forest Industries, Forest Policy and forest Conservation
• Kenneth Johnstone, Timber and Trauma: 75 Years with the Federal Forest Service, 1899-1974
• W.L. Morton, The Canadian Identity
• Graeme Wynn, Timber Colony: A Historical Geography of Early 19th Century New Brunswick

 
• Forestry (Choose one)
• J.V. Thirgood, Cyprus
• Bernhard Fernow, A Brief History of Forestry
• B. Ribbentrop, Forestry in British India
• N.D.G. James, A History of English Forestry
• M.M. Roche, Forest Policy in New Zealand: An Historical Geography 1840-1919
• E.P. Stebbing, The Forests of India, 3 vols
• L.T. Carron, History of Forestry in Australia

 
• Travel
• Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands
• Bruce Chadwin, In Patagonia
• ______, The Songlines
• Dea Birkett, Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers
• J.H. Patterson, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo
• Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World
• Elspeth Huxley, Flame Trees of Thika

 
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