Mallea – Environmental History
Full Circle: Readings in the History of Agriculture and Food
Jerad Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
JR McNeill and Verena Winiwarter, “Breading the Sod: Humankind, History and Soil” in Science Magazine (11 June 2004), pp 1627-39.
David Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
Matt Cartmill, A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History
Alfred Crosby, The Colombian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492
Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Eye View of the World
Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America
Douglas Hurt, American Agriculture: A Brief History
Steven Stoll, Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth Century America
Richard White, The Roots of Dependency
William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
Sarah Deutsch, No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940
Mary Neth, Preserving the Family Farm: Women, Community, and the Foundations of Agribusiness in the Midwest, 1900-1940
John Hudson, Makingthe Corn Belt: A Geographical History of Midwestern Agriculture
Donald Worster, The Dust Bowl
John Culver, An American Dreamer on Henry Wallace or online biography from the FDR Library:
Deborah Fink, Cutting into the Meatpacking Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest
Arvarh Strickland,“The Strange Affair of the Boll Weevil: The Pest as Liberator” inAgricultural History68 (1994),pp. 157-168.
Edward Ayers, The Promise of the New South
Pete Daniels, Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II South
Randal Beeman, A Green and Permanent Land: Ecology and Agriculture in the Twentieth Century
Andrew Kimbrell, ed.,Fatal Harvest (see also Fatal Harvest Reader—which lacks all the photography but retains the essays)
Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (esp. chapter on corn)
Harvey Levenstein,Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America
Deborah Barndt, Tangled Routes: Women, Work and Globalization on the Tomato Trail (summary:
Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
Vandana Shiva, Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
Anthony Winson, The Industrial Diet: The Degradation of Food and the Struggle for Healthy Eating
David Mas Masumoto, Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Ann Vileisis, Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get it Back
Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi, Food Justice