George Perkins Marsh Prize

The George Perkins Marsh Prize is an annual book prize awarded by the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH). The prize, which was awarded bi-annually from its inception in 1989 until becoming an annual award in 2000, is awarded to what is adjudged to be the best book in environmental history. The award is named for the early American conservationist George Perkins Marsh.

Recipients

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Year[1] Winner Title
1989 Arthur F. McEvoy The Fisherman's Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980
1991 Robert Harms Games Against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa
1993 William Cronon Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
1995 John Opie

Matt Cartmill

Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land

A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature through History

1997 Warren Dean

Elliott West

With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains

1999 Ann Vileisis

Theodore Catton

Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America's Wetlands

Inhabited Wilderness: Indians, Eskimos and National Parks in Alaska

2000 Joseph E. Taylor III Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis
2001 Martin Melosi The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present
2002 Louis A. Perez, Jr.

Karl Jacoby

Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba

Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation

2003 Conevery Bolton Valencius The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land
2004 Michael Bess The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000
2005 Brian Donahue The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord
2006 James C. McCann Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop: 1500-2000
2007 John Soluri Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States
2008 Diana K. Davis Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa
2009 Thomas Andrews Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War
2010 Timothy LeCain Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines that Wired America and Scarred the Planet
2011 Brett Walker Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan
2012 David Biggs Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta
2013 Daniel Schneider Hybrid Nature: Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the I Industrial Ecosystem
2014 Kate Brown Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
2015 Catherine McNeur Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City
2016 Andrew Needham Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest
2017 Ling Zhang The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048–1128
2018 Brian McCammack Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago
2019 Megan Black The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power
2020 Bathsheba Demuth Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
2021 Jamie Kreiner Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West
2022 Lucas Bessire Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
2023 Ruth Rogaski Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland
2024 Tamar Novick Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "American Society for Environmental History - Award Recipients". aseh.org. Archived from the original on 2020-11-12. Retrieved 2020-11-12.