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2024 Environmental History


Below, you'll find links to the new and soon-to-be published titles that are debuting this year, and we are offering a special 50% discount with free domestic shipping* on all titles in Environmental History and Indigenous Studies, so be sure to stock up! Just fill your shopping cart and use promo code ASEH24 at checkout.

  • *Discount expires April 30, 2024.
  • (Please note books that are not-yet-published will backorder, with estimated publication dates subject to change.)

If you had a project you were hoping to talk to us about, especially for our new Intersections in Environmental Justice series, please reach out to Nate Bauer at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. at your convenience. If you have questions about the discount offer, title availability, or the website, please email Beth Svinarich at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

New and forthcoming titles:

University Press of Colorado - Environmental History

Implementing the Endangered Species Act on the Platte Basin Water Commons

  • by David M. Freeman
University Press of Colorado - Environmental History

Mega-Dams in World Literature

Literary Responses to Twentieth-Century Dam Building

  • by Margaret Ziolkowski
University Press of Colorado - Environmental History

Mercury and the Making of California

Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840–1890
  • by Andrew Scott Johnston
University Press of Colorado - Environmental History

Nature's Burdens

Conservation and American Politics, the Reagan Era to the Present

  • by Daniel Nelson
University Press of Colorado - Environmental History

On the Plains, and Among the Peaks: or, How Mrs. Maxwell Made Her Natural History Collection

by Mary Dartt

  • edited by Julie McCown
University Press of Colorado - Environmental History

Persistent Progressives

The Rocky Mountain Farmers Union

  • by John F. Freeman
University Press of Colorado - Environmental History

Peter Fidler

From York Factory to the Rocky Mountains

  • edited by Barbara Belyea
University Press of Colorado - Environmental History

Prairie Ghost

Pronghorn and Human Interaction in Early America

  • by Richard E. McCabe, Henry M. Reeves, and Bart W. O'Gara
University Press of Colorado - Environmental History

Predatory Bureaucracy

The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West

  • by Michael Robinson
University Press of Colorado - Environmental History

Retelling Trickster in Naapi’s Language

  • by Nimachia Howe
University Press of Colorado - Environmental History

Risk Communication and Miscommunication

Case Studies in Science, Technology, Engineering, Government, and Community Organizations

  • by Carolyn Boiarsky
University Press of Colorado - Environmental History

Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth

Weather, Climate Change, and Finding Deep Powder in Utah's Wasatch Mountains and around the World

  • by Jim Steenburgh
University Press of Colorado - Environmental History

Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth, Second Edition

Weather, Climate Change, and Finding Deep Powder in Utah's Wasatch Mountains and Around the World

  • by Jim Steenburgh
University Press of Colorado - Environmental History

Surviving Sudden Environmental Change

Answers From Archaeology

  • edited by Jago Cooper and Payson Sheets
University Press of Colorado - Environmental History

The Carey Act and Conservation in Colorado

  • by Gerald C. Morton
University Press of Colorado - Environmental History

The Colorado Trail in Crisis

A Naturalist’s Field Report on Climate Change in Mountain Ecosystems

  • by Karl Ford
University Press of Colorado - Environmental History

The Explorer's Guide to Death Valley National Park, Fourth Edition

  • by T. Scott Bryan & Betty Tucker Bryan
University Press of Colorado - Environmental History

The Geology, Ecology, and Human History of the San Luis Valley

  • edited by Jared Maxwell Beeton, Charles Nicholas Saenz, & Benjamin James Waddell
University Press of Colorado - Environmental History

The Geysers of Yellowstone, Fifth Edition

  • by T. Scott Bryan
University Press of Colorado - Environmental History

The Greater Chaco Landscape

Ancestors, Scholarship, and Advocacy

  • edited by Ruth M. Van Dyke & Carrie C. Heitman

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