The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History. Edited by Andrew C. Isenberg. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 783 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth $160.00.

A Biased Introduction to the “New Environmental History”

“…In his review of the Handbook , Binnema () highlights a discrepancy that looms over the entire work. Although the publisher's website says, “environmental history is perhaps the quintessential approach to studying subjects outside the nation‐state model, with pollution, global warming, and other issues affecting the earth not stopping at national borders,” all but one of the contributors are American.…”