George Perkins Marsh Prize Winners

The George Perkins Marsh Prize is awarded annually by the American Society for Environmental History for the best book in environmental history.

Winners

	Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) by Jamie Kreiner 4.59 avg rating — 17 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth 4.31 avg rating — 394 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power by Megan A. Black 4.31 avg rating — 29 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago by Brian McCammack 3.65 avg rating — 23 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128 by Ling Zhang 4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest (Politics and Society in Modern America, 107) by Andrew Needham 3.82 avg rating — 118 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City by Catherine McNeur (Goodreads Author) 3.81 avg rating — 88 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters by Kate Brown 4.16 avg rating — 1,082 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hybrid Nature: Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the Industrial Ecosystem by Daniel Schneider 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) by David Andrew Biggs 3.74 avg rating — 38 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) by Brett L. Walker really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 81 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines That Wired America and Scarred the Planet by Professor Timothy J. LeCain 3.69 avg rating — 32 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War by Thomas G. Andrews 3.95 avg rating — 552 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa by Diana K. Davis 3.50 avg rating — 40 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States by John Soluri 3.60 avg rating — 174 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000 by James C. McCann 3.28 avg rating — 58 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord by Brian Donahue 3.57 avg rating — 47 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000 by Michael Bess (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land by Conevery Bolton Valencius 3.86 avg rating — 49 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba by Louis A. Pérez Jr. 3.50 avg rating — 34 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation by Karl Jacoby (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 268 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sanitary City: Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present by Martin V. Melosi 3.58 avg rating — 38 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Book) by III Taylor, Joseph E. 3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History Of America's Wetlands by Ann Vileisis (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (1999)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (Centennial Book) by Warren Dean 3.95 avg rating — 78 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (1997)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains (Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture Series) by Elliott West 3.82 avg rating — 33 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (1997)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History by Matt Cartmill 3.89 avg rating — 55 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (1995)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land by John Opie 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (1995)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon 4.24 avg rating — 3,153 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (1993)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Games against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa by Robert W. Harms 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings George Perkins Marsh Prize (1991)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars