George Perkins Marsh Prize Explained

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

Year[1] WinnerTitle
1989Arthur F. McEvoyThe Fisherman's Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980
1991Robert HarmsGames Against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa
1993William CrononNature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
1995John OpieMatt CartmillOgallala: Water for a Dry LandA View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature through History
1997Warren DeanElliott WestWith Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic ForestThe Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains
1999Ann VileisisTheodore CattonDiscovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America's WetlandsInhabited Wilderness: Indians, Eskimos and National Parks in Alaska
2000Joseph E. Taylor IIIMaking Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis
2001Martin MelosiThe Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present
2002Louis A. Perez, Jr.Karl JacobyWinds of Change: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century CubaCrimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
2003Conevery Bolton ValenciusThe Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land
2004Michael BessThe Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000
2005Brian DonahueThe Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord
2006James C. McCannMaize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop: 1500-2000
2007John SoluriBanana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States
2008Diana K. DavisResurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa
2009Thomas AndrewsKilling for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War
2010Timothy LeCainMass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines that Wired America and Scarred the Planet
2011Brett WalkerToxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan
2012David BiggsQuagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta
2013Daniel SchneiderHybrid Nature: Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the I Industrial Ecosystem
2014Kate Brown
2015Catherine McNeurTaming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City
2016Andrew NeedhamPower Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest
2017Ling ZhangThe River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048–1128
2018Brian McCammackLandscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago
2019Megan BlackThe Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power
2020Bathsheba Demuth
2021Jamie KreinerLegions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West
2022Lucas BessireRunning Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
2023Ruth RogaskiKnowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland
2024Tamar NovickMilk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land

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References

  1. Web site: American Society for Environmental History - Award Recipients. 2020-11-12. aseh.org. 2020-11-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20201112184904/https://aseh.org/award-recipients. dead.