The scholarship of enviromental history has grown into a major historiographical field of study within the past 20 years, and Sarah T. Phillips looks at how this emerging field has been applied within the broader context of American history.The scholarship of environmental history has grown into a major historiographical field of study within the past 20 years, and Sarah T. Phillips looks at how this emerging field has been applied within the broader context of American history.Series ForewordIntroductionConquest and CommoditiesEnvironment and TemporalityThe Nature of Power and the Power of NatureSomething New under the SunBibliographySarah T. Phillips is assistant professor of history at Boston University and the author of This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal (2007).