Urban/Environment Field Prelims List

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1 Urban/Environment Field Prelims List Sarah Camacho January 6, 2010 Important Works of Environmental History 1.Cronon, William. Changes in the Land 1983 (rev. ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003) 2. Cronon, William ed. Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996); selected essays. 3. Crosby, Alfred. Ecological Imperialism (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986). 4. Hays, Samuel P. Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1959). 5. Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. Discovering the Vernacular Landscape (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986). 6. Jacoby, Karl. Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of Conservation, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001). 7. Langston, Nancy. Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995) 8. McEvoy, Arthur. The Fisherman s Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, , (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986). 9. McNeill, J.R., Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth Century World (New York: W.W. Norton, 2000). 10. Scharff, Virginia J., ed., Seeing Nature Through Gender (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003). 11. Sellers, Christopher. Thoreau s Body: Towards an Embodied Environmental History, Environmental History 4 (1999): Spirn, Anne Whiston. The Language of Landscape (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998). 13. Steinberg, Ted. Down to Earth: Nature s Role in American History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002). 14. Sutter, Paul. Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement. Seattle: University of Washington Press, White, Richard. From Wilderness to Hybrid Landscapes: The Cultural Turn of Environmental History, The Historian Vol 66, Worster, Donald. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1979). 17. Worster, Donald, Alfred Crosby, Richard White, et al., A Roundtable: Environmental History, Journal of American History 76 (1990): Worster, Donald. The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination (Oxford University Press, 1993). Important Works of Urban History 19. Abbot, Carl The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993) 20. Avila, Eric. Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006).

2 21. Bender, Thomas. Community and Social Change in America. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,1978) 22. Bender, Thomas. Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth- Century America. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1975). 23. Bender, Thomas. The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea (New York: The New Press, 2002). 24. Blackmar, Elizabeth and Roy Rosenzweig. The Park and the People: A History of Central Park (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992). 25. Caro, Robert A. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (New York: Vintage Books, 1975). 26. Chudacoff, Howard P. and Judith E. Smith. The Evolution of American Urban Society (Prentice Hall, 6 th edition, 2004). 27. Cocks, Catherine. Doing the Town: The Rise of Urban Tourism in the United States, (University of California Press, 2001). 28. Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990). 29. Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (New York: Vintage Books, 1992). 30. Deverell, William. Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of its Mexican Past (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004). 31. Findlay, John M. Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992). 32. Gilfoyle, Timothy J. White Cities, Linguistic Turns, and Disneylands: The New Paradigms of Urban History, Reviews in American History 26:1 (1998), Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1985). 34. Lassiter, Matthew D. The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006). 35. McShane, Clay. Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995). 36. Mumford, Lewis. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects 1961 (San Diego and New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1989). 37. Nicolaides, Becky. How Hell Moved from the City to the Suburbs: Urban Scholars and Changing Perceptions of Authentic Community, in Kruse, Kevin M. and Thomas J. Sugrue, The New Suburban History (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006). 38. Nicolaides, Becky. My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002). 39. Self, Robert. American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003). 40. Sugrue, Thomas J. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 1996). 41. Teaford, John C. The Rough Road to Renaissance: Urban Revitalization in America, (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990). 42. Warner, Sam Bass. Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, (2nd ed., Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1978)

3 43. Warner, Sam Bass. The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972). 44. White, Morton and Lucia. The Intellectual Versus the City, From Thomas Jefferson to Frank Lloyd Wright (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press and the M.I.T. Press, 1962). 45.Wiese, Andrew. Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005). Urban Environment 46. Bocking, Stephen. The Nature of Cities: Perspectives in Canadian Urban Environmental History, Urban History Review 34:1 (Fall 2005), Cronon, William. Nature s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. (New York: W.W. Norton and Co. 1991). 48. Kelman, Ari. A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006). 49. Klingle, Matt. Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007). 50. Meisner Rosen, Christine and Joel Arthur Tarr. The Importance of an Urban Perspective in Environmental History. Journal of Urban History 20:3 (May 1994), Melosi, Martin V. The Place of the City in Environmental History, Environmental History Review 17 (1993): Melosi, Martin V. The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). 53. Strasser, Susan, Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash (New York: Metropolitan, 1999). 54. Tarr, Joel A. Urban History and Environmental History in the United States: Complementary and Overlapping Fields, H-Net, November 30, 2000, Walker, Richard A. The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007). The Built Environment 56. Brand, Stewart. How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They re Built. (New York: Penguin, 1995). 57. Boyer, Christine. Dreaming the Rational City. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986). 58. Clay, Grady. Real Places: An Unconventional Guide to America s Generic Landscape (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994). 59. Clay, Grady. Close-Up: How to Read the American City (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1980). 60. Cranz, Galen. The Politics of Park Design (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1989). 61. Garvin, Alex. The American City: What Works, What Doesn t 2nd ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002). 62. Hall, Peter. Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century. 3rd ed. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2002) 63. Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities (New York: Vintage Books, 1960).

4 64. Kropp, Phoebe. California Vieja: Culture and Memory in a Modern American Place (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006). 65. Ladd, Brian. Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997). 66. Lewis, Tom. Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life (New York: Viking, 1997). 67. Page, Max and Randall Mason, eds. Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States (New York: Routledge, 2004). 68. Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow. Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001). 69. Rome, Adam. The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001). 70. Spirn, Anne Whiston. The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design (New York: Basic Books, 1984). 71. Dell Upton, Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997). 72. Venturi, Robert, Steven Izenour, and Denise Scott Brown, Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form rev. ed. (Cambridge, Mass. and London: The MIT Press, 1977). 73. Wilson, Chris. The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional Tradition (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997). 74. Wilson, Chris and Paul Groth, ed., Everyday America: Cultural Landscape Studies After J.B. Jackson (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003). 75. Gwendolyn Wright, Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000). Imagining Place, Nature, and Time 76. Keith Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places: Notes on a Western Apache Landscape, in Senses of Place, ed. Steven Feld and Keith Basso (Santa Fe, N.M.: School of American Research Press, 1996). 77. Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995). 78. Jackson, John Brinckerhoff, A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994). 79. Krech, Shepard. The Ecological Indian: Myth and History (New York: Norton, 2000). 80. Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1991). 81. Lowenthal, David, The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998). 82. Lowenthal, David, The Past is a Foreign Country (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985). 83. Lynch, Kevin. The Image of the City (Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1960). 84. Lynch, Kevin. What Time is this Place? (Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1972) 85. Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1964).

5 86. Mitman, Gregg. The State of Nature: Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992). 87. Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967). 88. Novak Barbara. Nature and Culture: American Landscape Painting, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980). 89. Price, Jennifer. Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America (New York: Basic Books, 1999). 90. Schama, Simon. Landscape and Memory (New York: Vintage, 1996). 91. Soja, Edward. Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1996). 92. Raymond Williams, The Country and the City (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1973). 93. Williams, Raymond. "Ideas of Nature," in Williams, Problems in Materialism and Culture: Selected Essays (London: Verso, 1980). 94. Williams, Raymond. Nature in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976). Environment, Health and Work 95. Andrews, Thomas G. Killing for Coal: America s Deadliest Labor War (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008). 96. Hurley, Andrew. Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995). 97. Mitman, Gregg. Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape our Lives and Landscapes (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007). 98. Murphy, Michelle. Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006). 99. Russell, Edmund. War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001) Taylor, Alan. Unnatural Inequalities: Social and Environmental Histories, Environmental History, 4 (October 1996): Stroud, Ellen. Troubled Waters in Ecotopia: Environmental Racism in Portland, Oregon, Radical History Review 74 (Spring 1999), White, Richard. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1996).