Books

An original and in-depth history of the 1969 Santa Barbara, CA oil spill. Teresa Sabol Spezio provides a background of water pollution control, government oversight of federally funded projects, and chemical detection methods in place prior to the spill. She then shows how scientists and politicians used public outrage over the spill to implement wide-ranging changes to federal environmental and science policy, and demonstrates the advancements to offshore oil drilling, pollution technology, and water protection law that resulted from these actions.

Examines the Intersection of Energy Policy and Environmental Regulation after the 1973 OAPEC Oil Embargo

Philadelphia was one of America’s first major cities and an international seaport. Nature’s Entrepot views the planning, expansion, and sustainability of the urban environment of Philadelphia from its inception to the present.

American, Canadian, and British scholars probe the environmental history of London during the modern and contemporary period.

Motor City Green sheds light on the ways social and political history intersect with urban and environmental history as a new way to tell the history of Detroit.

The only environmental history of Italy in the latter half of the twentieth century in English.

A New Environmental History that Integrates Cultural and Urban Identity Across German Cities and Their Outskirts

The First Comprehensive Examination of Chicago’s Environmental History from Indigenous Peoples to Twenty-First Century Environmental Restoration

An Interdisciplinary Overview of New York City’s Relationship with Its Waterways and Coastlines Since 1889

The First Environmental History of Krakow, Covering More than a Thousand Years of History