Welcome to the UNC Press Virtual Exhibit for the American Society for Environmental History.
Scroll through our newest releases!
We’re looking forward to getting together at the conference. But in case you won’t be traveling this year, we’re bringing our book exhibit to you.
From virtually anywhere, you can browse our list of new and recent titles, chat with one of our acquisitions editors, learn about new books in our Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges series, and more.
UNC Press is proud to distribute books for the Forest History Society
Note: Distributed titles are not eligible for the conference discount.
All of our books (in fact, our entire site) are available now at our 40 percent conference discount. Plus if your order totals $75, domestic U.S. shipping is FREE! Just use promo code 01DAH40 at checkout.
Follow the links below for information on submitting a book proposal, ordering desk or examination copies (even free digital exam copies), classroom permissions, disability resources, and more. We’ve even created a handy FAQ document, with answers to the most-asked questions we get at exhibit booths.
Titles on Display for ASEH
Click on any book below to learn more. And, using our View Inside feature, you can leaf through the pages for a preview of each new book, just as if you were standing at our booth. Check it out on each book page.
Eating on a Mountain at the End of the World
How I Found Love, Humor, and Beauty in My Quest for Ethical Food
How Insects, Pathogens, and People Defied the US-Mexico Border
Race and Reclaiming Environmental Labor in the American West
J. C. Raulston, Horticultural Ambassador
How Gray Wolves, Monarch Butterflies, and Giant Sequoias Transformed Large Landscape Conservation
Settlers, Swamps, and the State, 1775–1920
How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil War
The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions
The Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South
Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790–1850
Discovering the Natural Wonders of the Wild South
Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina
A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp
Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920
Railroads, Rebels, and Migrants in an Argentine-Chilean Borderland
Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America
Shaping Policy for a Sustainable and Just Future
Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia
Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice
The Culture of Calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood
US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century
Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade
A State-by-State Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right to Farm
Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent
The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction
Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling
How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet
Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia
Multiracial Alliances, Labor Politics, and Transnational Activism in the Pacific Northwest, 1970–1999
How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant
The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro
Four Centuries of Extractivism in a Small Mexican Mining Town
The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil's Green Revolution
How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South
The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change
An American Literary History of Sustainability
The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865
Citizens and Subjects in the North Pacific Borderlands, 1867–1945
An Environmental Justice History of Detroit
A River Journey through the Heart of North Carolina
Crossroads of the Natural World
Exploring North Carolina with Tom Earnhardt
Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century
Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700
A Global History
How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream
A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice
Flint's Journey from Crisis to Recovery
Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery
A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America
Coastal Disasters and the Making of the American Beach
The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean
Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making
Networks and Agents of Ecological Change
Beneath the Backbone of the World
Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720–1877
Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present
The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire
How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire
How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates
A Pacific Ecosystem and Its Fliers, Divers, and Swimmers
All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental
Environmental Transformation through Species Acclimatization, from Colonial Australia to the World
American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health
Challenges of Urbanization and Globalization in the Americas
Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835–1945
The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru
The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy
Toilets, Sewers, and Water Systems
Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850
Rubber and the Making of Vietnam
An Ecological History, 1897–1975
The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France
Environmental Science and International Politics
Acid Rain in Europe, 1979-1989, and Climate Change in Copenhagen, 2009
America and the Eradication of Smallpox in the Cold War Era
The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science
The Herds Shot Round the World
Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800–1900
An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai'i