| Year[1] |
Winner |
Title |
|---|
| 1989 |
Arthur F. McEvoy |
The Fisherman's Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980 |
| 1991 |
Robert Harms |
Games Against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa |
| 1993 |
William Cronon |
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West |
| 1995 |
John Opie
Matt Cartmill |
Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land
A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature through History |
| 1997 |
Warren Dean
Elliott West |
With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains |
| 1999 |
Ann Vileisis
Theodore Catton |
Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America's Wetlands
Inhabited Wilderness: Indians, Eskimos and National Parks in Alaska |
| 2000 |
Joseph E. Taylor III |
Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis |
| 2001 |
Martin Melosi |
The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present |
| 2002 |
Louis A. Perez, Jr.
Karl Jacoby |
Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation |
| 2003 |
Conevery Bolton Valencius |
The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land |
| 2004 |
Michael Bess |
The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000 |
| 2005 |
Brian Donahue |
The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord |
| 2006 |
James C. McCann |
Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop: 1500-2000 |
| 2007 |
John Soluri |
Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States |
| 2008 |
Diana K. Davis |
Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa |
| 2009 |
Thomas Andrews |
Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War |
| 2010 |
Timothy LeCain |
Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines that Wired America and Scarred the Planet |
| 2011 |
Brett Walker |
Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan |
| 2012 |
David Biggs |
Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta |
| 2013 |
Daniel Schneider |
Hybrid Nature: Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the I Industrial Ecosystem |
| 2014 |
Kate Brown |
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters |
| 2015 |
Catherine McNeur |
Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City |
| 2016 |
Andrew Needham |
Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest |
| 2017 |
Ling Zhang |
The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048–1128 |
| 2018 |
Brian McCammack |
Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago |
| 2019 |
Megan Black |
The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power |
| 2020 |
Bathsheba Demuth |
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait |
| 2021 |
Jamie Kreiner |
Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West |
| 2022 |
Lucas Bessire |
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains |
| 2023 |
Ruth Rogaski |
Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland |
| 2024 |
Tamar Novick |
Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land |