William Cronon's Edited Volumes

Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books, University of Washington Press

(I serve as series editor, acquiring, editing, and writing forewords for all titles.)

Mission: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books explore human relationships with natural environments in all their variety and complexity. They seek to cast new light on the ways that natural systems affect human communities, the ways that people affect environments of which they are a part, and the ways that different cultural conceptions of nature profoundly shape our sense of the world around us.

David Stradling, Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007).

Andrew P. Duffin, Plowed Under: Agriculture and Environment in the Palouse (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007).

Coll Thrush, Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007).

Kevin R. Marsh, Drawing Lines in the Forest: Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007)

Richard Walker, The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007)

David Louter, Windshield Wilderness: Cars, Roads, and Nature in Washington's National Parks (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006).

Karl Boyd Brooks, Public Power, Private Dams: The Hell's Canyon High Dam Controversy (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006).

William Wyckoff, On the Road Again: Montana’s Changing Landscape (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006).

Mark Harvey, Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005).

Brett L. Walker, The Lost Wolves of Japan (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005).

William G. Robbins, Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940-2000, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004).

Thomas R. Dunlap, Faith in Nature: Environmentalism As Religious Quest (Seattle: University of Washington Press , 2004).

David Stradling , ed., Conservation in the Progressive Era: Classic Texts (Seattle: University of Washington Press , 2004).

Richard White, Remembering Ahanagran: A History of Stories (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998, 2004); reprint, separate from Weyerhaeuser Series.

Kathryn Morse, The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush (Seattle: University of Washington Press , 2003).

George Perkins Marsh, Man and Nature, Edited with a New Introduction by David Lowenthal (Seattle: University of Washington Press , 2003).

Nancy Langston, Where Land and Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed (Seattle: University of Washington Press , 2003).

Mark Cioc, The Rhine: An Eco-Biography (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002).

Paul S. Sutter, Driven Wild: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2002).

Stephen J. Pyne, Fire: A Brief History (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001)

David Lowenthal, George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000).

Mark Harvey, A Symbol of Wilderness: Echo Park and the American Conservation Movement (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000).

Joseph Taylor, Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999), Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Prize for the Best Book in Environmental History, 2000.

Mark Fiege, Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999), Winner of the 2001 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award for the best book on forest and conservation history published in 1999 or 2000).

Herbert Guthrie-Smith, Tutira: The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999).

Kurkpatrick Dorsey, The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy: U.S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998).

Stephen J. Pyne, Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998).

Stephen J. Pyne, The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998).

Stephen J. Pyne, Vestal Fire: An Environmental History, Told through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997).

William G. Robbins, Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story, 1800-1940 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997).

Stephen J. Pyne, Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997).

Stephen J. Pyne, World Fire: The Culture of Fire on Earth (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995).

Marjorie Hope Nicolson, Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995).

Nancy Langston, Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995).

D. W. Meinig, The Great Columbia Plain: A Historical Geography, 1805-1910 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1968, reprinted in series, 1995).

Other Edited Volumes

John S. Whitehead, Completing the Union: Alaska, Hawai'I, and the Battle for Statehood (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, Histories of the American Frontier series, co-edited with Howard Lamar, David Weber, and Martha Sandweiss), 2004.

R. Douglas Hurt, The Indian Frontier, 1763-1846 (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, Histories of the American Frontier series, co-edited with Howard Lamar, Martin Ridge, and David Weber), 2002.

Arnoldo De León, Racial Frontiers: Africans, Chinese, and Mexicans in Western America, 1848-1890 (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, Histories of the American Frontier series, co-edited with Howard Lamar, Martin Ridge, and David Weber), 2002. 

James P. Ronda, Finding the West: Explorations with Lewis and Clark (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, Histories of the American Frontier series, co-edited with Howard Lamar, Martin Ridge, and David Weber), 2001; "Foreword: Course of Discovery," viii-x, by William Cronon.

Rodman Wilson Paul and Elliott West, Mining Frontiers of the Far West, revised edition (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, Histories of the American Frontier series, co-edited with Howard Lamar, Martin Ridge, and David Weber), 2001.

Albert L. Hurtado, Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press), 1999.  (In the Histories of the American Frontier series, which I co-edit with Howard Lamar, Martin Ridge, and David Weber.)

John Muir: Nature Writings (New York: Library of America, 1996), edited by William Cronon.