Sarah S Elkind
Biographic Data
| ID | 1153673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah S Elkind |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah S |
| FAMILY NAME | Elkind |
| SIGNATURE | ELKIND S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2184-7596 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Teaching as Scholarship; or, Looking at the Global History of Energy Transitions in a Classroom in San Diego
This essay—the 2023 Presidential Address at the American Society for Environmental History’s annual meeting—challenges environmental historians to reconsider the divide between scholarship and teaching in professional advancement. The author’s experience with the energy transitions unit of a global environmental history course illustrates the centrality of environmental justice to all environmental history, demonstrates rigorous and creative inte…
Extracting property values and oil
Oil extraction began in the City of Los Angeles in the 1890s and continues to this day. A series of oil booms contributed to the city’s explosive growth in the early twentieth century. Because oil drilling was so dangerous, however, Los Angeles residents and city officials tried repeatedly to regulate oil exploration near homes and businesses. This article explains how oil drilling influenced Los Angeles residents’ understanding of property right…
Matthew Morse Booker. Down by the Bay
Journal Article Matthew Morse Booker. Down by the Bay: San Francisco's History between the Tides. Get access Matthew Morse Booker. Down by the Bay: San Francisco's History between the Tides. (Authors Imprint.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2013. Pp. xiii, 278. $29.95. Sarah S. Elkind Sarah S. Elkind San Diego State University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
The Anti-Landscape
There have always been some uninhabitable places, but in the last century human beings have produced many more of them. These anti-landscapes have proliferated to include the sandy wastes of what was once the Aral Sea, severely polluted irrigated lands, open pit mines, blighted nuclear zones, coastal areas inundated by rising seas, and many others. The Anti-Landscape examines the emergence of such sites, how they have been understood, and how som…
Oil in the City
82 The Journal of American History June 2012 Today oil derricks stand like trees in a forest. . . . Steam pile drivers roar on many a vacant lot. . . . One hundred and eighty permits to drill for oil have been given and twenty-five more are in procedure. . . . If this fever continues, as it gives every indication of doing, one reasonably may expect to see virtually the entire waterfront line of private properties from Washington street to Sixty-s…
Readings in Environmental History
In the spirit of the OAH Magazine of History’s goal of sharing historical scholarship with classroom teachers at a variety of grade levels, I think it useful to provide a brief review of some of the environmental history readings that high school teachers have recommended as particularly accessible or interesting to their students (1). This is based on a very unscientific survey of about fifteen middle and high school teachers. Some of them respo…
Environmental History
In preparing to introduce this issue of the OAH Magazine of History, I asked a number of pre-collegiate teachers who include environmental history in their courses what motivated them to amend the traditional U.S. history curriculum. Some of them responded that they found environmental history particularly useful for explaining key moments in American history, from the differences between Native American and colonial European cultures, to the out…
Political Waters
Reviewed by: Political Waters: The Long, Dirty, Contentious, Incredibly Expensive but Eventually Triumphant History of Boston Harbor—A Unique Environmental Success Story Sarah S. Elkind (bio) Political Waters: The Long, Dirty, Contentious, Incredibly Expensive but Eventually Triumphant History of Boston Harbor—A Unique Environmental Success Story. By Eric Jay Dolin. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. Pp. xi+240. $34.95. In Politica…
Environmental Inequality and the Urbanization of West Coast Watersheds
In the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and Los Angeles, urban development decreased the poor's access to water and marine resources. Modernization in these cities either reduced services to the poor and to ethnic minorities, be they Native Americans,Asian Americans, or Hispanic Americans, or diminished these groups' ability to supplement their incomes by fishing or foraging. Industrial development, shipping channels, and sewers all contributed t…
Ties that Bind
In Ties that Bind, Charles David Jacobson employs economic analysis to explain why networked utilities seem so immune to standard regulatory strategies. According to Jacobson, municipal officials have found their efforts foiled by natural monopolies when they sought to use direct governmental regulation, franchise bidding, and market competition to guarantee public service. In case studies of waterworks, electric street lighting, and cable televi…
Water for Gotham
Journal Article Water for Gotham: A History. By Gerard T. Koeppel. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. xvi, 355 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-01139-7.) Get access Sarah S. Elkind Sarah S. Elkind University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Pages 194–195, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674953 Published: 01 June 200…
Bay Cities and Water Politics
Journal Article Bay Cities and Water Politics: The Battle for Resources in Boston and Oakland. By Sarah S. Elkind. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. viii, 246 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0907-5.) Get access Ken Cruikshank Ken Cruikshank McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1801–1802, https://doi.org/1…
Bay Cities and Water Politics
Journal Article Bay Cities and Water Politics: The Battle for Resources in Boston and Oakland Get access Bay Cities and Water Politics: The Battle for Resources in Boston and Oakland. By Elkind Sarah S., maps by Aaron J. Weier. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. viii + 246 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.) Kevin Starr Kevin Starr University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
Galveston and the Great West
Journal Article Galveston and the Great West. By Earle B. Young. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. xiv, 232 pp. $32.95, ISBN 0-89096-773-3.) Get access Sarah S. Elkind Sarah S. Elkind University of Wisconsin — Stevens Point, Stevens Point, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1092–1093, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567…
Building a Better Jungle
Bless the Pure & Humble
Journal Article Bless the Pure & Humble: Texas Lawyers and Oil Regulation, 1919–1936. By Nicholas George Malavis. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1996. xviii, 322 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-89096-714-8.) Get access Sarah S. Elkind Sarah S. Elkind University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 702…
Oil in the City
82 The Journal of American History June 2012 Today oil derricks stand like trees in a forest. . . . Steam pile drivers roar on many a vacant lot. . . . One hundred and eighty permits to drill for oil have been given and twenty-five more are in procedure. . . . If this fever continues, as it gives every indication of doing, one reasonably may expect to see virtually the entire waterfront line of private properties from Washington street to Sixty-s…
Bay Cities and Water Politics
Journal Article Bay Cities and Water Politics: The Battle for Resources in Boston and Oakland Get access Bay Cities and Water Politics: The Battle for Resources in Boston and Oakland. By Elkind Sarah S., maps by Aaron J. Weier. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. viii + 246 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.) Kevin Starr Kevin Starr University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
The Anti-Landscape
There have always been some uninhabitable places, but in the last century human beings have produced many more of them. These anti-landscapes have proliferated to include the sandy wastes of what was once the Aral Sea, severely polluted irrigated lands, open pit mines, blighted nuclear zones, coastal areas inundated by rising seas, and many others. The Anti-Landscape examines the emergence of such sites, how they have been understood, and how som…
Environmental Inequality and the Urbanization of West Coast Watersheds
In the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and Los Angeles, urban development decreased the poor's access to water and marine resources. Modernization in these cities either reduced services to the poor and to ethnic minorities, be they Native Americans,Asian Americans, or Hispanic Americans, or diminished these groups' ability to supplement their incomes by fishing or foraging. Industrial development, shipping channels, and sewers all contributed t…
Galveston and the Great West
Journal Article Galveston and the Great West. By Earle B. Young. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. xiv, 232 pp. $32.95, ISBN 0-89096-773-3.) Get access Sarah S. Elkind Sarah S. Elkind University of Wisconsin — Stevens Point, Stevens Point, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1092–1093, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567…
Building a Better Jungle
Bless the Pure & Humble
Journal Article Bless the Pure & Humble: Texas Lawyers and Oil Regulation, 1919–1936. By Nicholas George Malavis. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1996. xviii, 322 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-89096-714-8.) Get access Sarah S. Elkind Sarah S. Elkind University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 702…
Galveston and the Great West
Journal Article Galveston and the Great West. By Earle B. Young. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. xiv, 232 pp. $32.95, ISBN 0-89096-773-3.) Get access Sarah S. Elkind Sarah S. Elkind University of Wisconsin — Stevens Point, Stevens Point, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1092–1093, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567…
Bay Cities and Water Politics
Journal Article Bay Cities and Water Politics: The Battle for Resources in Boston and Oakland. By Sarah S. Elkind. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. viii, 246 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0907-5.) Get access Ken Cruikshank Ken Cruikshank McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1801–1802, https://doi.org/1…
Bay Cities and Water Politics
Journal Article Bay Cities and Water Politics: The Battle for Resources in Boston and Oakland Get access Bay Cities and Water Politics: The Battle for Resources in Boston and Oakland. By Elkind Sarah S., maps by Aaron J. Weier. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. viii + 246 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.) Kevin Starr Kevin Starr University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
Water for Gotham
Journal Article Water for Gotham: A History. By Gerard T. Koeppel. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. xvi, 355 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-01139-7.) Get access Sarah S. Elkind Sarah S. Elkind University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Pages 194–195, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674953 Published: 01 June 200…
Ties that Bind
In Ties that Bind, Charles David Jacobson employs economic analysis to explain why networked utilities seem so immune to standard regulatory strategies. According to Jacobson, municipal officials have found their efforts foiled by natural monopolies when they sought to use direct governmental regulation, franchise bidding, and market competition to guarantee public service. In case studies of waterworks, electric street lighting, and cable televi…
Political Waters
Reviewed by: Political Waters: The Long, Dirty, Contentious, Incredibly Expensive but Eventually Triumphant History of Boston Harbor—A Unique Environmental Success Story Sarah S. Elkind (bio) Political Waters: The Long, Dirty, Contentious, Incredibly Expensive but Eventually Triumphant History of Boston Harbor—A Unique Environmental Success Story. By Eric Jay Dolin. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. Pp. xi+240. $34.95. In Politica…
Environmental Inequality and the Urbanization of West Coast Watersheds
In the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and Los Angeles, urban development decreased the poor's access to water and marine resources. Modernization in these cities either reduced services to the poor and to ethnic minorities, be they Native Americans,Asian Americans, or Hispanic Americans, or diminished these groups' ability to supplement their incomes by fishing or foraging. Industrial development, shipping channels, and sewers all contributed t…
Readings in Environmental History
In the spirit of the OAH Magazine of History’s goal of sharing historical scholarship with classroom teachers at a variety of grade levels, I think it useful to provide a brief review of some of the environmental history readings that high school teachers have recommended as particularly accessible or interesting to their students (1). This is based on a very unscientific survey of about fifteen middle and high school teachers. Some of them respo…
Environmental History
In preparing to introduce this issue of the OAH Magazine of History, I asked a number of pre-collegiate teachers who include environmental history in their courses what motivated them to amend the traditional U.S. history curriculum. Some of them responded that they found environmental history particularly useful for explaining key moments in American history, from the differences between Native American and colonial European cultures, to the out…
Oil in the City
82 The Journal of American History June 2012 Today oil derricks stand like trees in a forest. . . . Steam pile drivers roar on many a vacant lot. . . . One hundred and eighty permits to drill for oil have been given and twenty-five more are in procedure. . . . If this fever continues, as it gives every indication of doing, one reasonably may expect to see virtually the entire waterfront line of private properties from Washington street to Sixty-s…
Matthew Morse Booker. Down by the Bay
Journal Article Matthew Morse Booker. Down by the Bay: San Francisco's History between the Tides. Get access Matthew Morse Booker. Down by the Bay: San Francisco's History between the Tides. (Authors Imprint.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2013. Pp. xiii, 278. $29.95. Sarah S. Elkind Sarah S. Elkind San Diego State University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
The Anti-Landscape
There have always been some uninhabitable places, but in the last century human beings have produced many more of them. These anti-landscapes have proliferated to include the sandy wastes of what was once the Aral Sea, severely polluted irrigated lands, open pit mines, blighted nuclear zones, coastal areas inundated by rising seas, and many others. The Anti-Landscape examines the emergence of such sites, how they have been understood, and how som…
Extracting property values and oil
Oil extraction began in the City of Los Angeles in the 1890s and continues to this day. A series of oil booms contributed to the city’s explosive growth in the early twentieth century. Because oil drilling was so dangerous, however, Los Angeles residents and city officials tried repeatedly to regulate oil exploration near homes and businesses. This article explains how oil drilling influenced Los Angeles residents’ understanding of property right…
Teaching as Scholarship; or, Looking at the Global History of Energy Transitions in a Classroom in San Diego
This essay—the 2023 Presidential Address at the American Society for Environmental History’s annual meeting—challenges environmental historians to reconsider the divide between scholarship and teaching in professional advancement. The author’s experience with the energy transitions unit of a global environmental history course illustrates the centrality of environmental justice to all environmental history, demonstrates rigorous and creative inte…
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