Oxford Bibliographies in Environmental History

Oxford Bibliographies in Environmental History is a cutting-edge and authoritative resource that guides researchers, teachers, and students to the most important scholarship in the field. Since its founding in 1979 the field of Environmental History has become one of the fastest-growing subfields of historical inquiry. Environmental History explores the relationships between human communities and the natural world across time and space. It presumes the centrality of nature to human affairs, whether in the context of daily life, the development of social and political structures, or the creation of artistic, religious, and philosophical traditions. It sheds light on how societies have navigated changing environmental conditions due to climate change; air, soil, and water pollution; species extinction; or altered resource availability because of economic exploitation or violent conflict. Environmental History traces the ways communities—urban and rural, nations and neighborhoods, political, social, and intellectual—perceive, engage with, and shape nature and how, in turn, nature shapes them.