Andrew C. Isenberg

From the Periphery to the Center: North American Environmental History

new field that emerged in the United States in the 1970s as an outgrowth of the American environmental movement. There is certainly some truth to this narrative of the field’s origins: John Opie began issuing an environmental history newsletter to fellow historians and scholars of American Studies in 1974; Environmental Review (the forerunner of the T From the Periphery to the Center: North American Environmental History

The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750–1920. By Andrew C. Isenberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xi + 206 pp. Maps, illustrations, index.

1. The grassland environment 2. The genesis of the Nomads 3. The Nomadic experiment 4. The ascendancy of the market 5. The wild and the tamed 6. The return of the bison.