Kathryn Morse
Biographic Data
| ID | 957393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Morse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Morse |
| SIGNATURE | MORSE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middlebury College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
They Came but Could Not Conquer
Seed Money
Journal Article Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future Get access Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future. By Bartow J Elmore. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2021. x, 387 pp. $30.00.) Kathryn Morse Kathryn Morse Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Issue 2, September 2023, Pages 368–369, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/ja…
Gray Gold
Environmental and labor historians have long focused on lead’s devastating health effects and the long battle to ban leaded paint and gasoline. Gray Gold takes this story back in time to the pre-industrial lead mines of the Illinois country before it became Missouri. Combining history of technology with environmental, labor, and economic approaches, the author defines three eras of pre-industrial production: Indigenous mining; a French colonial/I…
In Memoriam
Linda brought both brilliance and intuitive understanding to this project. She graduated from Stanford (1984) with two undergraduate degrees, history and civil engineering. From the start she saw that humans—even historians and engineers—exist within and create multiple systems of knowledge, all historically contingent, and often overlapping within the human beings themselves
Migrant Citizenship
This impressive monograph captures the paradox of the Farm Security Administration (Fsa): a progressive New Deal attempt to advance social democracy blunted and defeated by entrenched white supremacy. Verónica Martínez-Matsuda's research takes us far beyond John Steinbeck's Weedpatch Camp, the Joad family's gleaming refuge in The Grapes of Wrath (1939), to the multiracial, nationwide network of migrant labor camps as sites of contest over full na…
M ark A. L ause . The Great Cowboy Strike
In The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots, and Class Conflicts in the American West, Mark Lause takes aim at the cowboy myth, recasting the independent, stoic, mythic heroes as wage laborers struggling against centralized corporations and the state. The book argues that a short series of fleeting but successful labor actions taken by seasonal wage laborers in the cattle industry of the interior West (i.e., cowboys) formed a significant but lit…
Battleground Alaska
If the interior lower-forty-eight U.S. West is known for its fierce antistatist anger at the U.S. federal government, Alaska’s anger is by comparison virulent, argues Stephen Haycox in this vivid synthesis of Alaskan battles over public lands since statehood (p. 183). That antistatism is rooted not in a dictatorial federal state’s conspiracy to deny Alaskans economic growth—as many non-native Alaskans fervently believe—but rather in the physical …
Rendering Nature
Only five of the twelve chapters in this impressive collection focus on the U.S. West, but there are riches here for all, regardless of region. Editors Marguerite S. Shaffer and Phoebe S. K. Young introduce the book with reference to William Cronon’s 1995 edited volume, Uncommon Ground, which includes Cronon’s essay “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature.” The pairing is apt. This new work shares the earlier book’s com…
Crisis of the Wasteful Nation
Crisis of Wasteful Nation: Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America, by Ian Tyrrell. Chicago & London, University of Chicago Press, 2015. xii, 351 pp. $40.00 US (cloth). In this provocative work, Ian Tyrrell interprets Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive conservation movement as not merely a US-based reform movement, but also a set of ideas and goals promulgated by like-minded members of an international political and intellectual eli…
In Darkest Alaska
Journal Article In Darkest Alaska: Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage Get access In Darkest Alaska: Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage. Nature and Culture in America Series. By Campbell Robert. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.348 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $45.00, £29.50.) Kathryn Morse Kathryn Morse Middlebury College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Wester…
Special Forum
Knock on Wood
Reviewed by: Knock on Wood: Nature as Commodity in Douglas Fir Country Kathryn Morse (bio) Knock on Wood: Nature as Commodity in Douglas Fir Country. By Scott Prudham. New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. ix+260. $90/$24.95. Knock on Wood is not primarily a study of technology and culture, although shifts in the technology of timber extraction play a role in its arguments. Neither is it a conventional historical narrative. As a work of economic geograp…
The World Turned Upside Down
Review Article| January 01 2006 The World Turned Upside Down: A History of Mining on Coal Creek and Woodchopper Creek, Yukon Charley River Preserve, Alaska The World Turned Upside Down: A History of Mining on Coal Creek and Woodchopper Creek, Yukon Charley River Preserve, Alaska By DOUGLAS BECKSTEAD. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 2003; ix + 280 pp., illustrations, maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography; paperbound. KATHRYN MORSE…
What Books Should be More Widely Read in Environmental History
The Nature of Gold
Journal Article The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush Get access The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. By Morse Kathryn. Foreword by William Cronon. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. xviii + 290 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Jeremy Mouat Jeremy Mouat Athabasca University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
Seeing Nature through Gender
Journal Article Seeing Nature through Gender Get access Seeing Nature through Gender. Edited by Scharff Virginia J.. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. xxii + 345 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $45.00, cloth; $17.95, paper.) Kathryn Morse Kathryn Morse Middlebury College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 35, Issue 4, Winter 2004, Pages 504–505, https://doi.org…
The Natural West
Journal Article The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains Get access The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. By Flores Dan. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. x + 285 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Kathryn Morse Kathryn Morse Middlebury College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar We…
Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples
Journal Article Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples: Readings in Environmental History Get access Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples: Readings in Environmental History. Edited by Goble Dale D. Hirt Paul W.. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xiv + 552 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, notes, index. $60.00, cloth; $29.95, paper.) Kathryn Morse Kathryn Morse Edited Middlebury College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
The Northern Gold Fleet
Journal Article The Northern Gold Fleet: Twentieth-Century Gold Dredging in Alaska Get access The Northern Gold Fleet: Twentieth-Century Gold Dredging in Alaska. By Spence Clark C.. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. 302 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $44.95.) Kathryn Morse Kathryn Morse University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Q…
A List of Dissertations
Kathryn Morse, Renée M. Sentilles; A List of Dissertations, Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 3, 1 August 1990, Pages 341–349, https://doi.org
A Sermon in the Desert
Journal Article A Sermon in the Desert: Belief and Behavior in Early St. George, Utah Get access A Sermon in the Desert: Belief and Behavior in Early St. George, Utah. By Logue Larry M.. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. xiii + 165 pp. Illustrations, map, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95.) Kathryn Morse Kathryn Morse Utah State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Wes…
Seed Money
Journal Article Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future Get access Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future. By Bartow J Elmore. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2021. x, 387 pp. $30.00.) Kathryn Morse Kathryn Morse Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Issue 2, September 2023, Pages 368–369, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/ja…
Migrant Citizenship
This impressive monograph captures the paradox of the Farm Security Administration (Fsa): a progressive New Deal attempt to advance social democracy blunted and defeated by entrenched white supremacy. Verónica Martínez-Matsuda's research takes us far beyond John Steinbeck's Weedpatch Camp, the Joad family's gleaming refuge in The Grapes of Wrath (1939), to the multiracial, nationwide network of migrant labor camps as sites of contest over full na…
Special Forum
A List of Dissertations
Kathryn Morse, Renée M. Sentilles; A List of Dissertations, Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 3, 1 August 1990, Pages 341–349, https://doi.org
A Sermon in the Desert
Journal Article A Sermon in the Desert: Belief and Behavior in Early St. George, Utah Get access A Sermon in the Desert: Belief and Behavior in Early St. George, Utah. By Logue Larry M.. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. xiii + 165 pp. Illustrations, map, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95.) Kathryn Morse Kathryn Morse Utah State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Wes…
The Northern Gold Fleet
Journal Article The Northern Gold Fleet: Twentieth-Century Gold Dredging in Alaska Get access The Northern Gold Fleet: Twentieth-Century Gold Dredging in Alaska. By Spence Clark C.. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. 302 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $44.95.) Kathryn Morse Kathryn Morse University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Q…
Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples
Journal Article Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples: Readings in Environmental History Get access Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples: Readings in Environmental History. Edited by Goble Dale D. Hirt Paul W.. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xiv + 552 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, notes, index. $60.00, cloth; $29.95, paper.) Kathryn Morse Kathryn Morse Edited Middlebury College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
The Natural West
Journal Article The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains Get access The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. By Flores Dan. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. x + 285 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Kathryn Morse Kathryn Morse Middlebury College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar We…
Seeing Nature through Gender
Journal Article Seeing Nature through Gender Get access Seeing Nature through Gender. Edited by Scharff Virginia J.. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. xxii + 345 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $45.00, cloth; $17.95, paper.) Kathryn Morse Kathryn Morse Middlebury College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 35, Issue 4, Winter 2004, Pages 504–505, https://doi.org…
What Books Should be More Widely Read in Environmental History
The Nature of Gold
Journal Article The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush Get access The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. By Morse Kathryn. Foreword by William Cronon. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. xviii + 290 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Jeremy Mouat Jeremy Mouat Athabasca University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
Knock on Wood
Reviewed by: Knock on Wood: Nature as Commodity in Douglas Fir Country Kathryn Morse (bio) Knock on Wood: Nature as Commodity in Douglas Fir Country. By Scott Prudham. New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. ix+260. $90/$24.95. Knock on Wood is not primarily a study of technology and culture, although shifts in the technology of timber extraction play a role in its arguments. Neither is it a conventional historical narrative. As a work of economic geograp…
The World Turned Upside Down
Review Article| January 01 2006 The World Turned Upside Down: A History of Mining on Coal Creek and Woodchopper Creek, Yukon Charley River Preserve, Alaska The World Turned Upside Down: A History of Mining on Coal Creek and Woodchopper Creek, Yukon Charley River Preserve, Alaska By DOUGLAS BECKSTEAD. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 2003; ix + 280 pp., illustrations, maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography; paperbound. KATHRYN MORSE…
Special Forum
In Darkest Alaska
Journal Article In Darkest Alaska: Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage Get access In Darkest Alaska: Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage. Nature and Culture in America Series. By Campbell Robert. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.348 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $45.00, £29.50.) Kathryn Morse Kathryn Morse Middlebury College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Wester…
Rendering Nature
Only five of the twelve chapters in this impressive collection focus on the U.S. West, but there are riches here for all, regardless of region. Editors Marguerite S. Shaffer and Phoebe S. K. Young introduce the book with reference to William Cronon’s 1995 edited volume, Uncommon Ground, which includes Cronon’s essay “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature.” The pairing is apt. This new work shares the earlier book’s com…
Crisis of the Wasteful Nation
Crisis of Wasteful Nation: Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America, by Ian Tyrrell. Chicago & London, University of Chicago Press, 2015. xii, 351 pp. $40.00 US (cloth). In this provocative work, Ian Tyrrell interprets Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive conservation movement as not merely a US-based reform movement, but also a set of ideas and goals promulgated by like-minded members of an international political and intellectual eli…
Battleground Alaska
If the interior lower-forty-eight U.S. West is known for its fierce antistatist anger at the U.S. federal government, Alaska’s anger is by comparison virulent, argues Stephen Haycox in this vivid synthesis of Alaskan battles over public lands since statehood (p. 183). That antistatism is rooted not in a dictatorial federal state’s conspiracy to deny Alaskans economic growth—as many non-native Alaskans fervently believe—but rather in the physical …
M ark A. L ause . The Great Cowboy Strike
In The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots, and Class Conflicts in the American West, Mark Lause takes aim at the cowboy myth, recasting the independent, stoic, mythic heroes as wage laborers struggling against centralized corporations and the state. The book argues that a short series of fleeting but successful labor actions taken by seasonal wage laborers in the cattle industry of the interior West (i.e., cowboys) formed a significant but lit…
Migrant Citizenship
This impressive monograph captures the paradox of the Farm Security Administration (Fsa): a progressive New Deal attempt to advance social democracy blunted and defeated by entrenched white supremacy. Verónica Martínez-Matsuda's research takes us far beyond John Steinbeck's Weedpatch Camp, the Joad family's gleaming refuge in The Grapes of Wrath (1939), to the multiracial, nationwide network of migrant labor camps as sites of contest over full na…
In Memoriam
Linda brought both brilliance and intuitive understanding to this project. She graduated from Stanford (1984) with two undergraduate degrees, history and civil engineering. From the start she saw that humans—even historians and engineers—exist within and create multiple systems of knowledge, all historically contingent, and often overlapping within the human beings themselves
Seed Money
Journal Article Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future Get access Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future. By Bartow J Elmore. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2021. x, 387 pp. $30.00.) Kathryn Morse Kathryn Morse Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Issue 2, September 2023, Pages 368–369, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/ja…
Gray Gold
Environmental and labor historians have long focused on lead’s devastating health effects and the long battle to ban leaded paint and gasoline. Gray Gold takes this story back in time to the pre-industrial lead mines of the Illinois country before it became Missouri. Combining history of technology with environmental, labor, and economic approaches, the author defines three eras of pre-industrial production: Indigenous mining; a French colonial/I…
They Came but Could Not Conquer
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