4 Books on the History of American Radical Environmental Movements

My 2023 Book List for Exploring The Roots of The Radical Environmental Movement in the U.S.

Page (seq 45) from Emily Dickinson’s herbarium. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

1. This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent, by Daegan Miller.
2. Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement. By Paul Sutter.
3. The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection. By Dorceta E. Taylor.
4. The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism. By Keith Makoto Woodhouse.

This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent, by Daegan Miller

Daegan Miller is an environmental writer, critic and landscape historian whose written some fantastic pieces on people’s relationship land and place in the U.S. such as this essay on the shifting meaning of historical landmarks in the Anthropocene.

I discovered this book about 19th century American environmental history one day on Twitter, when I saw a tweet from the…