REFERENCES AND ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Here are some sources that might be helpful if you are interested in learning more about people, events, and trends that have contributed to the Texas, U.S. and international environmental movement.

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Andrews, Richard N. L. Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves: A History of American Environmental Policy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

Baker, T. Lindsay. The Texas Red River Country: The Official Surveys of the Headwaters, 1876. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998.

Bartlett, Richard C. 1995. Saving the Best of Texas: A Partnership Approach to Conservation. Austin, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1995.

Beinart, William and Peter Coates. Environment and History: The Taming of Nature in the USA and South Africa. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Brick, Philip D. and R. McGreggor Cawley, eds., A Wolf in the Garden: the Land Rights Movement and the New Environmental Debate. Lanham, MD:Rowman & Littlefield, 1996.

Buell. Lawrence. The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1995.

Clements, Kendrick A. Hoover, Conservation, and Consumption: Engineering the Good Life. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000.

Colten, Craig E. and Peter N. Skinner. The Road to Love Canal: Managing Industrial Waste before EPA. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.

Cowdrey, Albert E. This Land, this South: an Environmental History. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, c1983.

Dewey, Scott H. Don't Breathe the Air: Air Pollution and U. S. Environmental Politics, 1945-1970. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000.

Dilsaver, Larry M. and Craig E. Colten, ed. The American Environment: Interpretations of Past Geographies. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, c1992.

Divine, Robert. The Johnson Years: Vietnam, the Environment, and Science. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987.

Doughty, Robin. At Home in Texas: Early Views of the Land. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000.

Doughty, Robin. Wildlife & Man in Texas: Environmental Change & Conservation. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1989.

Dowie, Mark, Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1995.

Dunlap, Riley E. and Angela G. Mertig, ed. American Environmentalism: The U.S. Environmental Movement, 1970-1990. Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis, c1992.

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Elbers, Joan S., Changing Wilderness Values, 1930-1990: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press, c1991.

Fitzpatrick, Tony. Signals from the Heartland. New York: Walker, 1993.

Flippen, J. Brooks. Nixon and the Environment. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000.

Fox, Stephen. John Muir and his Legacy: the American Conservation Movement. Boston: Little, Brown, c1981.

Gould, Lewis L. Lady Bird Johnson and the Environment. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1988.

Gottlieb, Robert. Forcing the Spring: the Transformation of the American Environmental Movement. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, c1993.

Grossman, Mark. The ABC-CLIO Companion to the Environmental Movement. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c1994.

Gunter, Pete, and Max Oelschlaeger. Texas Land Ethics. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998

Hays, Samuel P. Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: the Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890-1920. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1959.

Hays, Samuel P. A History of Environmental Politics since 1945. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.

Hays, Samuel P. and Barbara D. Hays. Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955-1985. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Herndl, Carl G. and Stuart C. Brown, eds. Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America. edited by. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.

Hirt, Paul W. A Conspiracy of Optimism: Management of the National Forests since World War Two. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.

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Jacoby, Karl. Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Kaufman, Patricia B. Early American Naturalists and their Contributions to Environmental History. Master of Environmental Science thesis, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Miami University. 1988

Kirby, Jack T. Poquosin: A Study of Rural Landscape & Society. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c1995.

Kline, Benjamin, First Along the River: A Brief History of the U. S. Environmental Movement. San Francisco: Acada Books, 2002.

Lacey, Michael J., ed. Government and Environmental Politics: Essays on Historical Developments since World War Two. Washington, DC: Wilson Center Press ; Lanham, MD: Distributed by arrangement with University Press of America, c1989.

Lay, Daniel W. and Joe C. Truett. Land of Bears and Honey: A Natural History of East Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984.

Lehman, Tim. Public Values, Private Lands: Farmland Preservation Policy, 1933- 1985. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Leonard. The Origins of Teapot Dome: Progressives, Parties and Petroleum, 1909-1921. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1963.

Lutts, Ralph H. The Nature Fakers: Wildlife, Science & Sentiment. Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum, c1990.

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Markowitz, Gerald and David Rosner. Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Melosi, Martin V. Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment, 1880-1980. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1981.

Melosi, Martin V. The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Melosi, Martin V., ed. Pollution and Reform in American Cities, 1870-1930 Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980.

Miller, Char, ed.. On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001.

Morehouse, Barbara J. A Place Called Grand Canyon: Contested Geographies. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c1996.

Nash, Roderick F., ed. American Environmentalism: Readings in Conservation History. New York: McGraw-Hill, c1990.

Nash Roderick F., The Rights of Nature: a History of Environmental Ethics. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, c1988.

Norton, Bryan G. Toward Unity among Environmentalists. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Norwood, Vera. Made from this Earth: American Women and Nature. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c1993.

Opie, John, Nature's Nation: An Environmental History of the United States. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1998.

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Paehlke, Robert C. Environmentalism and the Future of Progressive Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

Penna, Anthony N., Nature's Bounty: Historical and Modern Environmental Perspectives. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.

Penick, Jr., James. Progressive Politics and Conservation: the Ballinger-Pinchot Affair. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.

Pepper, David, John Perkins, Martyn Youngs, and Tom Colverson. The Roots of Modern Environmentalism. London ; Dover, N.H.: Croom Helm, c1984.

Petersen, David, ed. Big Sky, Fair Land: the Environmental Essays of A.B. Guthrie, Jr. Flagstaff, Ariz.: Northland Press, c1988.

Petulla, Joseph M. American Environmental History: The Exploitation and Conservation of Natural Resources. San Francisco: Boyd & Fraser Pub. Co., 1977.

Petulla, Joseph M., ed. American Environmentalism: Values, Tactics, Priorities. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1980.

Reiger, John F. American Sportsmen and the Origins of Conservation. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2000.

Richardson, Elmo R. Dams, Parks, and Politics: Resource Development and Preservation in the Truman-Eisenhower Era. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1973.

Richardson, Elmo R. The Politics of Conservation: Crusades and Controversies, 1897-1913. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962.

Richardson, Elmo R. Dams, Parks, and Politics: Resource Development and Preservation in the Truman-Eisenhower Era. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1973.

Rome, Adam. The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Rothman, Hal K., The Greening of a Nation?: Environmentalism in the United States Since 1945. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1998.

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Sansom, Andrew. Texas Lost: Vanishing Heritage. Dallas: Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas, Inc., 1996.

Scheffer, Victor B. The Shaping of Environmentalism in America. Seattle: University of Washington Press, c1991.

Schmidly, David J. Texas Natural History: A Century of Change. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2002.

Sellars, Richard W. Preserving Nature in the National Parks: A History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

Shabecoff, Philip. A Fierce Green Fire: the American Environmental Movement. New York: Hill & Wang, 1992.

Short, C. Brant. Ronald Reagan and the Public Lands: America's Conservation Debate, 1979-1984. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, c1989.

Sitton, Thad and James H. Conrad. Nameless Towns: Texas Sawmill Communities, 1880-1942. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998.

Steely, James W. Parks for Texas: Enduring Landscapes of the New Deal. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.

Steinberg, Ted, Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Stephens, Hugh. The Texas City Disaster, 1947. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.

Stradling, David. Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881-1951. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Swain, Donald C. Federal Conservation Policy, 1921-1933. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963.

Taylor, Bob P. Our Limits Transgressed: Environmental Political Thought in America. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, c1992.

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Vig, Norman J. and Michael E. Kraft, eds. Environmental Policy in the 1990s: Reform or Reaction? Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, c1997.

Wall, Derek. Green History: A Reader in Environmental Literature, Philosophy, and Politics. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Warren, Louis S.. The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

Watkins, T.H. Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold Ickes, 1874-1952. New York: H.Holt, c1990.

Wentzell, Gregg W. Wildness and the American Mind: the Social Construction of Nature in Environmental Romanticism from Thoreau to Dillard. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Miami University, Dept. of English, 1993.

Whitney, Gordon G. From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain: A History of Environmental Change in Temperate North America, 1500 to the Present. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Worster, Donald. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Worster, Donald, ed. American Environmentalism: The Formative Period, 1860-1915. New York: Wiley, 1973.

Worster, Donald, ed. The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on Modern Environmental History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Worster, Donald. Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West. New York ; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Worster, Donald. The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

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