Paul S Sutter

Biographic Data

ID951233
NAMEPaul S Sutter
GIVEN NAMESPaul S
FAMILY NAMESutter
SIGNATURESUTTER P S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Colorado Boulder
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS40
TOTAL CITATIONS90
AUTHOR COUNT34
EDITOR COUNT6
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Canal Dreamers

    Paul S SutterARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2026

  • The Vortex

    Paul S SutterARTICLEAgricultural History2025

    For the past decade, I have taught an introductory undergraduate course on the environmental history of the modern world. Built on critical historical engagement with the concept of the Anthropocene, the course attempts to make sense of how and why humans—or specific groups of humans—have had such powerful and accelerating impacts on the more-than-human world over the past half millennium. The course has been a challenge to teach. Trained as a US…

  • Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory

    Casey A Huegel, Paul S SutterBOOKCleaning Up the Bomb Factory2024

    Housewives, hard hats, and an Ohio town’s restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyard In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio’s outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold War communities by negligent radioactive waste disposal. Casey A. Huegel tells the story of the unlikely partnership of grassroots activists, regulators, union workers, and politicians that responded to the event with…

  • The History Teaching & Learning Project

    Open AccessNatasha Mendoza, Natalie Mendoza et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2024

    Our history department at the University of Colorado (cu) Boulder has long been dedicated to quality teaching.Tenure-track faculty invest considerable energy in their courses and teach the lion's share of the curriculum, including most introductory courses.With our teaching-line colleagues, we strongly identify as good teachers, pursue innovative pedagogy, and care about our students' success.Yet with the decline of humanities enrollments after t…

  • Deep Cut

    Paul S SutterARTICLEIsis2023

  • Debating Malthus

    Robert J Mayhew, Paul S SutterBOOKDebating Malthus2022

    Introducing students to the place of population in environmental thinking For centuries, thinking about the earth's increasing human population has been tied to environmental ideas and political action. This highly teachable collection of contextualized primary sources allows students to follow European and North American discussions about intertwined and evolving concepts of population, resources, and the natural environment from early contexts …

  • Sulphuric Utopias

    Paul S SutterARTICLEAgricultural History2022

    Sulphuric Utopias is a rich and multidimensional history of technological efforts to control diseases of commerce during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Cowritten by a historian of medicine and a medical anthropologist, the book examines how fumigation machines—particularly the Clayton machine—emerged as technological magic bullets that promised to end costly and unpopular quarantine regimes. Lukas Engelmann and Christos Lynter…

  • Communist Pigs

    Thomas Fleischman, Paul S SutterBOOKCommunist Pigs2020

  • Seeds of Control

    David Fedman, Paul S SutterBOOKSeeds of Control2020

    Conservation as a tool of colonialism in early twentieth-century Korea Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905–1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the peninsula’s extensive mountains and forests. Under the banner of “forest love,” the colonial government set out to restructure the rhythms and routines of agrarian life, targeting everything from home heating to food preparation. Ti…

  • Putting the Intellectual Back in Environmental History

    Open AccessPaul S SutterARTICLEModern Intellectual History2020References: 1

    At its birth, American environmental history had strong connections with intellectual history. Books such as Roderick Nash's Wilderness and the American Mind and Donald Worster's Nature's Economy made the rise of preservationist and ecological thinking central to the field's early identity. But during the last several decades, as intellectual historians have engaged in their own soul-searching, American environmental historians retreated from eng…

  • Fir and Empire

    Open AccessIan M Miller, Paul S SutterBOOKFir and Empire2020Cited by: 3

    A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE Restores China’s place in forest history The disappearance of China’s naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country’s history, one often blamed on imperial demand for lumber. China’s early modern forest history is typically viewed as a centuries-long process of environmental decline, culminating in a nineteenth-century social and ecological crisis. Pushing back a…

  • I. Asaka, Tropical Freedom

    Open AccessPaul S SutterARTICLEJournal of History2019

  • Sustaining Lake Superior

    Paul S SutterARTICLETechnology and Culture2019

    Reviewed by: Sustaining Lake Superior: An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World by Nancy Langston Paul S. Sutter (bio) Sustaining Lake Superior: An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World. By Nancy Langston. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. Pp. 312. Hardcover $35. Lake Superior is extraordinary. By surface area, it is the largest lake in the world, and it is bigger by volume than all of the other Great Lakes combined, containing a remarkab…

  • Dying to Better Themselves

    Open AccessPaul S SutterARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research2018

  • Panama Canal Forum

    A Carse, Christine Keiner et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental History2016Cited by: 7References: 18

  • The City Is More Than Human

    Frederick L Brown, Paul S SutterBOOKThe City Is More Than Human2016Cited by: 4

    Winner of the 2017 Virginia Marie Folkins Award, Association of King County Historical Organizations (AKCHO) Winner of the 2017 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize, Western History Association Seattle would not exist without animals. Animals have played a vital role in shaping the city from its founding amid existing indigenous towns in the mid-nineteenth century to the livestock-friendly town of the late nineteenth century to the pet-friendly, livestock-a…

  • Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies

    Paul S Sutter, Paul Sutter et al.BOOKLet Us Now Praise Famous Gullies2015

    Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgiaâ s â Little Grand Canyon,â preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It is a park that protects the scenic results of an environmental disaster. While little known today, Providence Canyon enjoyed a modicum of fame in the 1930s. During that decade, local boosters attempted to have Providence Canyon protected as a nati…

  • Loving Nature, Fearing the State

    Brian Allen Drake, Paul S Sutter et al.BOOKLoving Nature, Fearing the State2013

    A "conservative environmental tradition" in America may sound like a contradiction in terms, but as Brian Allen Drake shows in Loving Nature, Fearing the State , right-leaning politicians and activists have shaped American environmental consciousness since the environmental movement's beginnings. In this wide-ranging history, Drake explores the tensions inherent in balancing an ideology dedicated to limiting the power of government with a commitm…

  • The World with Us

    Paul S SutterARTICLEJournal of American History2013Cited by: 32

    In a now-classic round table discussion among a group of noted historians in 1990, the Journal of American History introduced its readers to the then-new discipline of environmental history. The field had its roots in several venerable scholarly enterprises—including the historiography of the American frontier, traditional American studies, the Annales school, historical geography, cultural ecology, and the political history of conservation— but …

  • Engineering Nature

    Paul S SutterARTICLETechnology and Culture2012

    Reviewed by: Engineering Nature: Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise Paul S. Sutter (bio) Engineering Nature: Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise. By Jessica B. Teisch. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Pp. x+260. $27.50. Jessica Teisch’s Engineering Nature: Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise is not q…

  • The National Parks

    Paul S SutterARTICLEJournal of American History2010

    Individuals who wish to propose films for review in the Journal should communicate with Thomas Doherty, American Studies Department, Brandeis University, 415 South St., Waltham, MA 02454-9110; [email protected]. The national parks have long needed, to quote the religious Bob Dylan, “a shot of love.” In the face of shrinking budgets, deteriorating facilities, and a serious maintenance backlog, the National Park Service, which will celebrate its…

  • When Environmental Traditions Collide

    Paul S SutterARTICLEEnvironmental History2009References: 2

  • Colonizing Leprosy

    Paul S SutterARTICLEJournal of Colonialism and…2008

    Reviewed by: Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States Paul S. Sutter Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States. By Michelle T. Moran. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007). In Colonizing Leprosy, Michelle Moran examines how U.S. public health officials’ conceptions of leprosy changed at a moment of imperial expansion and state modernizatio…

  • Mockingbird Song

    Paul S SutterARTICLEAgricultural History2008

    Book Review| October 01 2008 Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South. Jack Temple Kirby. Paul S. Sutter Paul S. Sutter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 553–554. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.4.553 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Paul S. Sutter; Mockingbird Song: Ecological L…

  • Nature’s Agents or Agents of Empire

    Paul S SutterARTICLEIsis2007Cited by: 34References: 26

    This essay examines the role that entomological workers played in U.S. public health efforts during the construction of the Panama Canal (1904-1914). Entomological workers were critical to mosquito control efforts aimed at the reduction of tropical fevers such as malaria. But in the process of studying vector mosquitoes, they discovered that many of the conditions that produced mosquitoes were not intrinsic to tropical nature per se but resulted …