Subject archive: environmental history

Below is a list of all book reviews under the subject heading of environmental history published to date in reverse chronological order. Click here to return to the subject menu or click here to return to the list of all reviews.

  1. The Vortex: An Environmental History of the Modern World
  2. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
  3. When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be
  4. The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next
  5. Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World – and Us
  6. Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature
  7. Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
  8. The Contamination of the Earth: A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age
  9. The Wood Age: How One Material Shaped the Whole of Human History
  10. The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945
  11. Cataclysms: An Environmental History of Humanity
  12. Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World
  13. The Journeys of Trees: A Story about Forests, People, and the Future
  14. Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings
  15. The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
  16. Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean
  17. Origins: How the Earth Made Us
  18. Tropical Forests in Prehistory, History, and Modernity
  19. Nature’s Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
  20. Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations
  21. Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
  22. The Cradle of Humanity: How the Changing Landscape of Africa Made Us So Smart
  23. The Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World
  24. The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
  25. Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
  26. The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilisation
  27. Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization
  28. The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, & the End of an Empire