Description:
Water in North American Environmental History offers twenty-five cases studies that explore the range of uses and perceptions of water throughout Canadian, Mexican, and the United States history.
Review Quotes:
2022 John Lyman Book Award honorable mention in the category of "Naval and Maritime Science and Technology"
"Teachers offering classes on environmental history, especially of either water or North America, will want to consider adding this book to their syllabi. Alternatively, the book could help hurried and harried instructors who need to give a class lecture or two on topics that appear here. College and university libraries should add it to their collections."
J.R. McNeill, Georgetown University, USA in Environment and History
"There is no dearth of concepts, approaches and research fields in the book...so broad is the range of topics and actors that the book covers that there is nothing much left to be desired. The reader finds a great variety of water bodies, from rivers such as the Rio Grande and the Mississippi, and human infrastructural artefacts like the Spanish colonial irrigation channels (acequias), the Houston Ship Channel and the Erie Canal, to underground sources like the depleting Ogallala aquifer... in Martin Melosi's magnificent Water in North American History, the ubiquity, the significance, and the multi-faceted nature of water's ways are amazing."
Uwe Lübken, Official Journal of the International Water History Association