Donald Worster
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Donald Worster is an American environmental historian who was, until his retirement, the Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas. He is one of the founders of, and leading figures in, the field of environmental history. In 2009, he was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. After retirement from University of Kansas, he became Distinguished Foreign Expert and senior professor in the School of History of Renmin University of China.
Donald Worster's Published Works
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- Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (1986) (1223)
- The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination (1994) (321)
- Excerpt From Rivers Of Empire: Water, Aridity, And The Growth Of The American West (1986) (262)
- Dusty Volumes: Environmental Disaster and Economic Collapse in the 1930s@@@The Dust Bowl: Men, Dirt, and Depression.@@@Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. (1980) (247)
- Transformations of the Earth: Toward an Agroecological Perspective in History (1990) (207)
- The Ends of the earth : perspectives on modern environmental history (1989) (164)
- The Ecology of Order and Chaos (1990) (144)
- Nature's economy : the roots of ecology (1980) (141)
- Nature and the Disorder of History (1994) (71)
- The Ends of the Earth (1989) (60)
- Saving the prairies : the life cycle of the founding school of American plant ecology, 1895-1955 (1982) (57)
- The wealth of nature (1993) (51)
- The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on Modern Environmental History (1990) (48)
- History as natural history: an essay on theory and method. (1984) (48)
- A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell (2000) (42)
- Donald Worster interview, "A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir" (2008) (40)
- An Unsettled Country: Changing Landscapes of the American West (1994) (38)
- The Two Cultures Revisited: Environmental History and the Environmental Sciences (1996) (30)
- Seeing beyond Culture (1990) (30)
- New West, True West: Interpreting The Region's History (1987) (29)
- The Ends of the Earth: Appendix: Doing Environmental History (1989) (28)
- The Vulnerable Earth: Toward A Planetary History (1987) (24)
- American environmentalism : the formative period, 1860-1915 (1975) (22)
- World Without Borders: The Internationalizing of Environmental History (1982) (22)
- THE DIRTY THIRTIES A STUDY IN AGRICULTURAL CAPITALISM (1986) (20)
- The Legacy of Conquest, by Patricia Nelson Limerick: A Panel of Appraisal (1989) (18)
- The Magnificent Experiment: Building the Salt River Reclamation Project 1890-1917 (1986) (17)
- The Next West: Public Lands, Community, and Economy in the American West (1998) (15)
- The Great Thirst: Californians and Water, 1770s-1990s. (1993) (15)
- John Muir and the Modern Passion for Nature (2005) (14)
- Dust Bowl Descent (1984) (13)
- The Intrinsic Value of Nature (1980) (13)
- Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England Carolyn Merchant (1991) (12)
- National Park Science: A century of research in South Africa (2018) (11)
- Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire. By Stephen J. Pyne. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. xvi + 654 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $35.00.) (1983) (9)
- A sense of soil: Agricultural conservation and American culture (1985) (9)
- Water and the Flow of Power (1988) (8)
- The Changing Face of Soviet Conservation (1989) (7)
- Under western skies (1992) (7)
- The Ends of the Earth: CONSERVING NATURE – PAST AND PRESENT (1989) (6)
- A river running west: reflections on John Wesley Powell (2009) (4)
- The Rights of Nature: Has Deep Ecology Gone Too Far? (1995) (4)
- Hydraulic Society in California: An Ecological Interpretation (2022) (3)
- Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment, 1880–1980. By Martin V. Melosi. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1981. xvi + 268 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $21.50.) (1982) (3)
- Environmentalism Goes Global (2008) (3)
- The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea. By Jack E. Davis (2019) (2)
- The American West in the Age of Vulnerability (2014) (2)
- The Living Earth: History, Darwinian Evolution, and the Grasslands (2010) (2)
- The marriage of ecology and agriculture. (1991) (2)
- The Kingdom, the Power, and the Water (1994) (2)
- A New Science for a Post-Frontier World (2020) (2)
- Landscape with Hero: John Wesley Powell and the Colorado Plateau (1997) (2)
- Roots of Modern Environmentalism. By David Pepper. (London: Croom Helm, 1984. x + 246 pp. Figures, appendix, references, glossary, index. £17.95.) (1986) (1)
- Michael P. Cohen: The Pathless Way: John Muir and American Wilderness (1988) (1)
- Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work Jackson J. Benson (1997) (1)
- At odds with progress: Americans and conservation (1992) (1)
- The Anti-Management Revolt (1985) (1)
- Battling the Inland Sea: American Political Culture, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850–1986. By Robert Kelley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Pp. xxi, 395. $35.00 (1991) (1)
- Pioneer Conservationists of Western America. By Peter Wild. (Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 1979. xi + 246 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $12.95) (1979) (1)
- The Higher Altruism (2014) (1)
- The Nature of Kansas Lands (2008) (0)
- Saving the Prairies: The Life Cycle of the Founding School of American Plant Ecology, 1895–1955. By Ronald C. Tobey. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. x + 315 pp. Charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) (1983) (0)
- Agrarianism and Nature (1996) (0)
- The Charles L. Wood Agricultural History Lecture Series: Cowboy Ecology: A New Look at an Old West. (1991) (0)
- Paths Across the Levee (1994) (0)
- Southwestern Agriculture: Pre-Columbian to Modern. Edited by Henry Dethloff and Irvin M. May Jr., College Station, Texas A & M University Press, 1982. Pp. vii + 307. $23.75. (1983) (0)
- The Ends of the Earth: Preface (1989) (0)
- Review Essay: Environmental History (1996) (0)
- The Ends of the Earth: Bibliography (1989) (0)
- Reviews: Powell's report of 1878 (1988) (0)
- John Muir and the Religion of Nature: A Bankrupt Legacy? (Lecture) (2016) (0)
- Pacific Visions. California Scientists and the Environment, 1850-1915. Michael L. Smith. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1988, xii, 243 pp. + plates. $26.50. (1988) (0)
- From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain: A History of Environmental Change in Temperate North America, 1500 to the Present. By Gordon G. Whitney. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xxxiv, 451 pp. $54.95, ISBN 0-521-39452-X.) (1995) (0)
- New World, New Earth: Environmental Reform in American Literature from the Puritans through Whitman. By Cecelia Tichi. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. xii + 290 pp. Notes, index. $18.50) (1981) (0)
- Carolyn Merchant's The Death of Nature at 25 Years (2005) (0)
- On John Muir's Trail: Nature in an Age of Liberal Principles (2008) (0)
- Ecology in the Twentieth Century: A History. Anna BramwellThe Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics. Roderick Frazier Nash (1990) (0)
- John Muir and the Religion of Nature (2009) (0)
- The J.H.B. bookshelf (1988) (0)
- Introduction: Connecting People and Places in History (2016) (0)
- The National Parks (2016) (0)
- The Ends of the Earth: The Vulnerable Earth: Toward a Planetary History (1989) (0)
- Book reviews (1979) (0)
- Manufacturing landscapes: Nature and technology in environmental history (2017) (0)
- A Response to “John Wesley Powell and the Unmaking of the West” (1997) (0)
- Encountering Mormon Country: John Wesley Powell, John Muir, and the Nature of Utah (2002) (0)
- Interconnections, Relationships, and Environmental Wholes: A Phenomenological Ecology of Natural and Built Worlds (2020) (0)
- Wildlife and Man in Texas: Environmental Change and Conservation Robin W. Doughty (1985) (0)
- Great River: An Environmental History of the Upper Mississippi, 1890–1950. By Philip V. Scarpino. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1985. x + 219 pp. Map, illustrations, table, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.00.) (1986) (0)
- Book Review:The Background of Ecology: Concept and Theory Robert P. McIntosh (1988) (0)
- Water and Power: The Conflict over Los Angeles' Water Supply in the Owens Valley William L. Kahrl (1983) (0)
- Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West. By Mark Fiege. Foreword by William Cronon. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xv + 323 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00 (2000) (0)
- Frontier and Western History in Central Brazil (2019) (0)
- People and the Land through Time: Linking Ecology and History . By Emily W. B. Russell ( New Haven , Yale University Press , 1997 ) 306 pp. $35.00 (1998) (0)
- Back to Nature in Pietermaritzburg (1993) (0)
- Grass to Dust: Ecology and the Great Plains in the 1930's (1977) (0)
- Shrinking the Earth: The Rise and Decline of American Abundance (2015) (0)
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