Spaces of consumption in environmental history

History and Theory

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 94-110

  Klingle, Matthew W ^a  

^a BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-2303.2003.00260.x     Document Type: Article

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2. Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1995), 143-179.
3. Thoreau, Waiden, 92.
4. For example, witness the Sierra Club's proposed line of "eco-friendly" products to raise money. Claudia H, Deutsch, "Green Marketing: Label with a Cause," New York Times (15 June 2003), section 3, p. 6.
5. Thoreau, Walden, 320.
6. Jean-Christophe Agnew, "Corning up for Air: Consumer Culture in Historical Perspective," in Consumption and the World of Goods, ed. John Brewer and Roy Porter (London: Routledge, 1993), 19-39.
7. Raymond Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society [1976], rev. ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983), 78-79.
8. Warren I. Susman, "The People's Fair: Cultural Contradictions of a Consumer Society," in Culture as History: The Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth Century, rev. ed. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984), 211-229.
9. Lizabeth Cohen, "Is There an Urban History of Consumption?," Journal of Urban History 29 (January 2003), 87.
10. For examples from American history, see Roland Marchand, Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985);
11. Susan Strasser, Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market (New York: Pantheon Books, 1989);
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14. Dana Frank, Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994);
15. and Kathy Peiss, Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture (New York: Metropolitan Books, 1998).
16. Dana Frank, Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (Boston: Beacon Press, 1999);
17. and Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (New York: Knopf, 2003),
18. Sidney W. Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (New York: Viking, 1985), 214.
19. Donald Worster, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), 6.
20. William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (New York: Hill and Wang, 1983), 160-170.
21. See also Richard White, Land Use, Environment, and Social Change: The Shaping of Island County, Washington (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1980).
22. Jennifer Price, Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America (New York: Basic Books, 1999), xix.
23. Donald Worster, The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 63.
24. For exceptions, see Richard White, The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (New York: Hill and Wang, 1996);
25. Joseph E. Taylor III, Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999);
26. Mark Fiege, Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999);
27. Robert M. Wilson, "Directing the Flow: Migratory Waterfowl, Scale, and Mobility in Western North America," Environmental History 7 (April 2002), 247-266;
28. and Ari Kelman, A River and its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003).
29. Richard White. "The Nationalization of Nature," Journal of American History 86 (December 1999), 977.
30. Edward W. Soja, Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory (New York: Verso, 1989), 32.
31. Soja draws from Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space, transl. Donald Nicholson-Smith (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1991).
32. Allan Pred, Making Histories and Constructing Human Geographies: The Social Transformation of Practice, Power Relations, and Consciousness (Boulder: Westview Press, 1990), 12.
33. John A. Wiens and Bruce T. Milne, "Scaling of Landscape in Landscape Ecology, or Landscape Ecology from a Beetle's Perspective," Landscape Ecology 3 (1989), 87-96;
34. and James H. Brown, Macroecology (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1995).
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36. see also Neil Brenner, "The Limits to Scale? Methodological Reflections on a Scalar Structuration," and Sallie A. Marston and Neil Smith, "States, Scales, and Households: Limits to Scale Thinking? A Response to Brenner," Progress in Human Geography 25 (2001), 591-614, 615-619.
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38. For correlations between telling and mapping stories, see Paul Carter, The Road to Botany Bay: An Essay in Spatial History (London: Faber, 1987).
39. I take my inspiration here from Leah Hager Cohen, Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Everyday Things (New York: Doubleday, 1997);
40. John C. Ryan and Alan Thein Durning, Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things (Seattle: Northwest Environment Watch, 1997);
41. and John H. Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecta, Breakfast of Biodiversity: The Truth about Rain Forest Destruction (Oakland, CA: Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1995);
42. and Kathryn Morse, The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003), 138-165.
43. Michael F. Jiménez, '"From Plantation to Cup': Coffee and Capitalism in the United States, 1830-1930," in Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America, ed. William Roseberry, Lowell Gudmundson, and Mario Samper Kutschbach (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), 39-40.
44. Ross W. Jamieson, "The Essence of Commodification: Caffeine Dependencies in the Early Modern World," Journal of Social History 35 (Winter 2001), 270-271.
45. Jiménez, "'From Plantation to Cup'," 38-40.
46. Steven C. Topik, "Coffee Anyone? Recent Research on Latin American Coffee Societies," Hispanic American Historical Review 80 (May 2000), 225-266 (quotation on 247).
47. See also Topik, "Coffee," in The Second Conquest of Latin America: Coffee, Henequen, and Oil During the Export Boom, 1850-1930, ed. Steven C. Topik and Allen Wells (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998), 37-84.
48. Richard Tucker, Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), 179-225.
49. Peter Fritsch, "An Oversupply of Coffee Beans Deepens Latin America's Woes," Wall Street Journal, eastern ed. (July 8, 2002), Al, A10.
50. Thoreau, The Maine Woods, ed. Joseph J. Moldenhauer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972), 122, 128.
51. Michael Williams, Americans and Their Forests: A Historical Geography (New York; Cambridge University Press, 1989), 370-373, 385, 423-447.
52. Paul W. Hirt, A Conspiracy of Optimism: Management of the National Forests since World Wat-Two (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994).
53. Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 15-43.
54. For an evocative account, see William Dietrich, The Final Forest: The Battle for the Last Great Trees of the Pacific Northwest (New York: Penguin, 1992).
55. Thoreau, The Maine Woods, 23, 29, 45, 53-55.
56. Tim Egan, The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990), 22.
57. For a critique, see John M. Findlay, "A Fishy Proposition: Regional Identity in the Pacific Northwest," in Many Wests: Place, Culture, and Regional Identity, ed. David M. Wrobel and Michael C. Steiner (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 1997), 37-70.
58. Dan Flores, "Place: An Argument for Bioregional History," Environmental History Review 18 (Winter 1994), 1-18.
59. Taylor, Making Salmon, 39-236.
60. Richard White, "The Nationalization of Nature," 983-986;
61. and Taylor, "The Historical Roots of Canadian-American Salmon Wars," in Parallel Destinies: Canadian-American Relations West of the Rockies, ed. John M. Findlay and Ken S. Coates (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002), 155-180.
62. Joseph E. Taylor III, "The Food of Kings; Advocacy, Academia, and Consumption," paper delivered at the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program, University of Georgia, 6 February 2003 (in Matthew Klingle's possession), 14-16.
63. For a wonderfully suggestive essay that points in directions that environmental historians might follow, see Roy Porter, "Consumption: Disease of the Consumer Society?," in Brewer and Porter, ed., Consumption and the World of Goods, 58-81.
64. Thoreau died of consumption, also known as tuberculosis, in 1862 at the age of 44. He contracted the disease in 1835 and some scholars speculate that he moved to Walden to avoid the dust in his father's pencil factory, thereby substituting an industrial space with a pastoral one to escape both kinds of consumption. See also Christopher Sellers, "Thoreau's Body: Towards an Embodied Environmental History," Environmental History 4 (October 1999), 486-515;
65. and Conevery Bolton Valenĉius, The Health of the Country; How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land (New York: Basic Books, 2002), 53-84.
66. Thoreau, Wild Fruits: Thoreau's Rediscovered Last Manuscript, ed. and intro. by Bradley P. Dean (New York: Norton, 2000), 3.
67. John Soluri, "Accounting for Taste: Export Bananas, Mass Markets, and Panama Disease," Environmental History 7 (July 2002), 390-393, 401.
68. Warren Dean, Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber: A Study in Environmental History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
69. John Soluri, "People, Plants, and Pathogens: The Eco-social Dynamics of Export Banana Production in Honduras, 1875-1950," Hispanic American Historical Review 80 (August 2000), 480-484;
70. see also Steve Marquardt, "'Green Havoc': Panama Disease, Environmental Change, and Labor Process in the Central American Banana Industry," American Historical Review 106 (February 2001), 49-80.
71. Lori Ann Thrupp, "Sterilization of Workers from Pesticide Exposure: The Causes and Consequences of DBCP-induced Damage in Costa Rica and Beyond," International Journal of Health Services 21 (1991), 731-758;
72. and Douglas L. Murray, Cultivating Crisis: The Human Cost of Pesticides in Latin America (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994).
73. Soluri, "Accounting for Taste," 399-402;
74. Tucker, Insatiable Appetite, 176-178.
75. Donna Haraway, "Universal Donors in a Vampire Culture: Tt's All in the Family: Biological Kinship Categories in the Twenty-first Century Untied States," in Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, ed. William J. Cronon (New York: Norton, 1995, 1996), 321-366.
76. Linda Nash, "The Changing Experience of Nature: Historical Encounters with a Northwest River." Journal of American History 86 (March 2000), 1602,
77. Hal Rothman, Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century West (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998);
78. see also Marguerite S, Shaffer, See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1880-1940 (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001).
79. Thomas Princen, Michale Maniates, and Ken Conca, "Confronting Consumption," in Confronting Consumption, ed. Thomas Princen, Michale Maniates, and Ken Conca (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2002), 1-20.
80. Tom Knudson, "State of Denial" and Staff Editorial, "Moving Beyond Denial," Sacramento Bee (27 April 2002): section A, 1-20 and section E, 4 http://www.sacbee.com/static/live/news/projects/denial/ (accessed 16 September 2003).
81. Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees, Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth (Gabriola Island, BC and Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers, 1996).
82. Richard White, '"Are You an Environmentalist or Do You Work for a Living?': Work and Nature," in Uncommon Ground, 171-185 (quotation on 185).
83. Price, Flight Maps, 57-109.
84. For example, see William J. Cronon, "The Trouble with Wilderness; or. Getting Back to the Wrong Nature," in Uncommon Ground, 69-90;
85. Louis S. Warren, The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997);
86. Mark David Spence, Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999);
87. and Karl Jacoby, Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).