ASEH Virtual Exhibit

Welcome to the UNC Press Virtual Exhibit for the American Society for Environmental History.

Scroll through our newest releases!

If you are not able to be with us at the conference, we’re bringing our book exhibit to you.

From virtually anywhere, you can browse our list of new and recent titles, chat with our editor Maria Garcia, learn about our new Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges Series, and more.

Books published in the Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges Series

All of our books (in fact, our entire site) are available now at our 40 percent ASEH conference discount. Plus if your order totals $75, domestic U.S. shipping is FREE! Just use promo code 01DAH40 at checkout.

Click here for our full list of books in Environmental Studies.

Follow the links at the left 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.

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.


Country Capitalism

Country Capitalism

How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet

Bart Elmore

Making the Green Revolution

Making the Green Revolution

Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia

Timothy W. Lorek

Seattle in Coalition

Seattle in Coalition

Multiracial Alliances, Labor Politics, and Transnational Activism in the Pacific Northwest, 1970–1999

Diana K. Johnson

Guaraná

Guaraná

How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant

Seth Garfield

The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro

The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro

Four Centuries of Extractivism in a Small Mexican Mining Town

Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert

Agriculture's Energy

Agriculture's Energy

The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil's Green Revolution

Thomas D. Rogers

Hurricane Jim Crow

Hurricane Jim Crow

How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South

Caroline Grego

State of Disaster

State of Disaster

The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change

Maria Cristina Garcia

Agrotopias

Agrotopias

An American Literary History of Sustainability

Abby L. Goode

American Lucifers

American Lucifers

The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865

Jeremy Zallen

Converging Empires

Converging Empires

Citizens and Subjects in the North Pacific Borderlands, 1867–1945

Andrea Geiger

Dismal Freedom

Dismal Freedom

A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp

J. Brent Morris

Toxic Debt

Toxic Debt

An Environmental Justice History of Detroit

Josiah Rector

Down the Wild Cape Fear

Down the Wild Cape Fear

A River Journey through the Heart of North Carolina

Philip Gerard

Crossroads of the Natural World

Crossroads of the Natural World

Exploring North Carolina with Tom Earnhardt

Tom Earnhardt

Planetary Specters

Planetary Specters

Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century

Neel Ahuja

American Baroque

American Baroque

Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700

Molly A. Warsh

Oil Palm

Oil Palm

A Global History

Jonathan E. Robins

The Swamp Peddlers

The Swamp Peddlers

How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream

Jason Vuic

Defending the Arctic Refuge

Defending the Arctic Refuge

A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice

Finis Dunaway

Tainted Tap

Tainted Tap

Flint's Journey from Crisis to Recovery

Katrinell M. Davis

Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery

Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery

A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World

Dale W. Tomich, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Carlos Venegas Fornias, Rafael de Bivar Marquese

Convulsed States

Convulsed States

Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America

Jonathan Todd Hancock

Shipwrecked

Shipwrecked

Coastal Disasters and the Making of the American Beach

Jamin Wells

The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean

The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean

Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making

Sharika D. Crawford

Beneath the Backbone of the World

Beneath the Backbone of the World

Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720–1877

Ryan Hall

Environments of Empire

Environments of Empire

Networks and Agents of Ecological Change

Ulrike Kirchberger, Brett M. Bennett

Landscape of Migration

Landscape of Migration

Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present

Ben Nobbs-Thiessen

An Environmental History of the Civil War

An Environmental History of the Civil War

Judkin Browning, Timothy Silver

To Master the Boundless Sea

To Master the Boundless Sea

The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire

Jason W. Smith

Red Coats and Wild Birds

Red Coats and Wild Birds

How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire

Kirsten A. Greer

Food Fights

Food Fights

How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates

Charles C. Ludington, Matthew Morse Booker

The California Current

The California Current

A Pacific Ecosystem and Its Fliers, Divers, and Swimmers

Stan Ulanski

All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental

All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental

Environmental Transformation through Species Acclimatization, from Colonial Australia to the World

Pete Minard

The Wild and the Toxic

The Wild and the Toxic

American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health

Jennifer Thomson

New World Cities

New World Cities

Challenges of Urbanization and Globalization in the Americas

John Tutino, Martin V. Melosi

The People of the River

The People of the River

Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835–1945

Oscar de la Torre

Making Machu Picchu

Making Machu Picchu

The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru

Mark Rice

The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy

The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy

Toilets, Sewers, and Water Systems

Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow

Frontiers of Science

Frontiers of Science

Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850

Cameron B. Strang

Rubber and the Making of Vietnam

Rubber and the Making of Vietnam

An Ecological History, 1897–1975

Michitake Aso

Organic Resistance

Organic Resistance

The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France

Venus Bivar

The End of a Global Pox

The End of a Global Pox

America and the Eradication of Smallpox in the Cold War Era

Bob H. Reinhardt

American Tropics

American Tropics

The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science

Megan Raby

The Herds Shot Round the World

The Herds Shot Round the World

Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800–1900

Rebecca J. H. Woods

Runaway

Runaway

Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness

Anthony Chaney

Cattle Colonialism

Cattle Colonialism

An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai'i

John Ryan Fischer