HY 255/EV275
Nature and Society

Selected Bibliography

General

Crosby, A. Ecological imperialism, 900-1900; Germs, seeds, and animals (Broad discussions emphasizing the biological.)
Jellicoe, Geoffrey & Jellicoe, Susan The landscape of man: shaping the environment from prehistory to the present day
Pounds, N.J.G. An historical geography of Europe
Teich, Mikulas Nature and society in historical context

Braudel, F. The Mediterranean; Afterthoughts on the effects of material civilization (Key sources on the interplay of geography and material life.)
Grant, Michael The Ancient Mediterranean
Attenborough, David The first Eden: the Mediterranean world and man
Peregrine, Hordan The corrupting sea: the Mediterranean in history

Schama, S. Landscape and memory (A provocative study of the effect of inherited ideas about nature on modern views of nature).
Charlton, D.G. New images of the natural in France: a study in European cultural history, 1750-1800
LeRoy Ladurie, E. Times of feasts, times of famine: a history of climate since 1000
Eisenberg, Evan   The ecology of Eden
Ham, Jennifer   Animal acts: configuring the human in Western history
Serpell, James   In the company of animals:  a study of human-animal relationships
Pinol, Jean-Luc   Water and European cities
Ryan, William and Walter Pitman   Noah's flood
Two scientists try to determine whether and when
Watts, Sheldon   Epidemics and history
Teich, Mikulas   Nature and society in historical context
Cavilli-Sforza, Luigi Lucas   Genes, peoples, and languages
Cavilli-Sforza, Luigi Lucas & F. Cavalli-Sforza The great human diasporas: the history of diversity and evolution
Bacci, Massimo Livi The population of Europe: a history

Imagining nature

Clark, K. Art and landscape
Andrews, Malcolm   Landscape and Western art
Shepard, Paul Man in the landscape: a historical view of the aesthetics of nature
Comment, Bernard   The painted panorama
Gombrich, E.H.   The uses of images: studies in the social function of art and visual imagery
Serra, Tomas Painting nature: genre and landscape painting from Brueghel to Van Gogh
Strong, Roy The artists and the garden
Quammen, David The boilerplate rhino: nature in the eye of the beholder
Boeckl, Christine M. Images of plague and pestilence
Kemp, Martin & Wallace, Marina Spectacular bodies: the art and science of the human body from Leonardo to now
Turner, R. The vision of landscape in Renaissance Italy
Rykwert, Joseph   The Palladian ideal
Fraenger, Wilhelm Hieronymus Bosch
Charlton, D.G. New images of the natural in France
Dabrowski, Magdalena   The French landscape:  the modern vision, 1880-1920
Green, N. The spectacle of nature: landscape and bourgeois culture in 19th century France
Warrell, Ian   Turner on the Seine
Mancoff, Debra   Van Gogh: fields and flowers
Hawes, L. Presences of nature: British landscape, 1780-1830
Ruskin, J. Modern painters
Morris, Edward Constaple's clouds: paintings and cloud studies by John Constaple

Hassig, Debra The Mark of the Beast (collection of articles on bestiaries)
Barber, Richard Bestiary: Being an English Version of the Bodley 764 (a great example of an early medieval bestiary)
Fabre-Vassas, Claudine The singular beast: Jews, Christians, and the pig
Bedini, Silvio The Pope's elephant
Allin, Michael Zarafa

Turnock, David An historical geography of railways in Great Britain and Ireland
Fritzsche, Peter   A nation of fliers: German aviation and the popular imagination

G. Bellini, da Vinci, Gentile da Fabriano, Gozzoli, Pieter Breughel
Poussin, Lorrain, Rubens, Rembrandt, Rosa, J. Ruisdael
Constaple, Turner, Friedrichs, Courbet
Monet, Gauguin, H. Rousseau, Cézanne, Matisse

Thinking about nature

Fumagalli, Vito   Landscape of fear: perceptions of nature and the city in the Middle Ages
Jardine, Lisa Ingenious pursuits: building the Scientific Revolution

Rousseau, J-J Reveries of a solitary walker
White, G. The natural history of Selbourne
Shelley, M. Frankenstein
Freud, S. Civilization and its discontents; The ego and the id
Campbell, Mary Baine   Wonder and science: imagining worlds
Danielson, Dennis, ed.   The book of the cosmos:  imagining the universe from Heraclitus to Hawking
Kuhn, T.  The Copernican revolution
Galileo, G. Starry messenger
Christianson, John Robert   On Tycho's Island:  Tycho Brahe and his assistants
Grafton, Anthony   Cardano's cosmos:  the worlds and works of a Renaissance astrologer

Ruse, Michael   The Darwinian Revolution
Secord, James A. Victorian sensation: the extraordinary publication, reception, and secret authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History
Hawkins, Mike   Social Darwinism in European and American thought, 1860-1945: nature as model. . .

Appleton, J. The experience of landscape; The poetry of habitat; The symbolism of habitat
Spencer, J. Heroic nature (Looks at Dryden and Milton.)

Kroeber, K. Romantic landscape vision
Noyes, R. Wordsworth and the art of landscape
Fletcher, P. Gardens and grim ravines (Deals with Victorian poetry.)

Dealing with nature

Bamford, P.W. Forests and French sea power, 1660-1789
Harrison, R.P. Forests: the shadow of civilization
Thirgood, J.V. Man and the Mediterranean forest
Rackham, O. Trees and woodlands in the British landscape
Sahlins, P. Forest rites (Peasant forest rituals and the modern state.)
Ambrosoli, Mauro The wild and the sown: botany and agriculture in Western Europe, 1350-1850
Haskins, W.G. The making of the English landscape
Backhouse, Janet Medieval rural life in the Luttrell Psalter
Cartmill, M. A view to a death in the morning: hunting and nature through history

Dash, Mike Tulipomania: the story of the world's most coveted flower and the extraordinary passions it aroused
Pavord, Anna The tulip

Stafford, B.N. Voyage into substance: travel accounts, 1760-1840

d'Angeville, H. My ascent of Mont Blanc
Whymper, E. Scrambles amongst the Alps in the years 1860-1869
Stephen, L. The playground of Europe
The Alpine Journal (1-29, 1863-1915; 30-82, 1916-1977)
Morris, Jan Coronation Everest

Corbin, A. The lure of the sea

Jellicoe, G.A. The landscape of man (General history of gardens.)
Adams, W. H. Nature perfected: gardens through historyWoodbridge, Kenneth Landscape and antiquity
Agnelli, Marella Gardens of the Italian villas
Bajard, Sophie   Rome: palaces and gardens
Coffin, David R. Gardens and gardening in papal Rome
Fagiolo, Marcello   Roman gardens:  villas in the countryside
Lazzaro, Claudia The Italian Renaissance garden
Adams, W.H. The French garden
Haskell, Eric   Le Notre's gardens
Montclos, Jean-Marie   Vaux le Vicomte
Mukerji   Territorial ambitions and the gardens of Versailles
Hucliez, Marielle Contemporary parks and gardens in France
Hunt, John Dixon & Peter Willis The genius of the place: the English landscape garden, 1620-1820
Hussey, Christopher English gardens and landscapes

Heilbron, J.K.   The sun in church:  cathedrals as solar observatories