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 YearWinnerTitle1989Arthur F. McEvoyThe Fisherman's Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-19801991Robert HarmsGames Against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa1993William CrononNature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West1995John Opie Matt CartmillOgallala: Water for a Dry Land A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature through History1997Warren Dean Elliott WestWith Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains1999Ann Vileisis Theodore CattonDiscovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America's Wetlands Inhabited Wilderness: Indians, Eskimos and National Parks in Alaska2000Joseph E. Taylor IIIMaking Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis2001Martin MelosiThe Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present2002Louis A. Perez, Jr. Karl JacobyWinds of Change: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation2003Conevery Bolton ValenciusThe Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land2004Michael BessThe Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-20002005Brian DonahueThe Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord2006James C. McCannMaize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop: 1500-20002007John SoluriBanana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States2008Diana K. DavisResurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa2009Thomas AndrewsKilling for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War2010Timothy LeCainMass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines that Wired America and Scarred the Planet2011Brett WalkerToxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan2012David BiggsQuagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta2013Daniel SchneiderHybrid Nature: Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the I Industrial Ecosystem2014Kate BrownPlutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters2015Catherine McNeurTaming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City2016Andrew NeedhamPower Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest2017Ling ZhangThe River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048–11282018Brian McCammackLandscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago2019Megan BlackThe Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power2020Bathsheba DemuthFloating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait2021Jamie KreinerLegions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West2022Lucas BessireRunning Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains2023Ruth RogaskiKnowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland2024Tamar NovickMilk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land2025Meredith McKittrickGreen Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid
See also
List of history awards
References