Ted Steinberg (born 1961) is an American author and historian. He is the Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.[1]
He was born in Brooklyn.[2] He received his BA summa cum laude in 1983 from Tufts University. He received a Ph.D. in history from Brandeis University in 1989. From 1990 to 1993 he was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Michigan, and 1993 to 1996 he was an assistant professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He was hired at Case Western Reserve University in 1996. Since 2006 he has been the Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History.[3]
Scholarship
Steinberg is the author of several books in U.S. history that focus on the relationship between ecological forces and social power. His best known works include Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History (2002); Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America (2000); and American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn (2006). His most recent book, Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York (2014), reinterprets the New York metropolitan area’s history from an environmental perspective and argues against the commonly held view that geography determined the city’s destiny. Considered by some to be an ecosocialist or pro-socialist scholar,[4][5] Steinberg is highly critical of the impact that capitalism has had on the environment and society.[6][7]
Winner of the Old Sturbridge Village E. Harold Hugo Memorial Book Prize for the best book on the history and material culture of rural New England in 1992 for Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England.[14]
Winner of the Ohio Academy of History's Publication Award in 2001 for Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America.[15]
Winner of a National Outdoor Book Award in the category of Nature & the Environment for Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History, 2002.[16]
Winner of the New York Society Library New York City Book Award for Natural History in 2015 for Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York.[17]
Winner of the Association of American Publishers PROSE Award (U.S. History category) in 2015 for Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York.[12]
Publications
Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England, Cambridge University Press, 1991.[18]ISBN9780521527118
Slide Mountain, or the Folly of Owning Nature, University of California Press, 1995.[19]ISBN9780520207097
“Do-It-Yourself Deathscape: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in South Florida,” Environmental History 2 (October 1997): 414–438.[20]
Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster, Oxford University Press, 2000.[21]ISBN9780195309683
“Down to Earth: Nature, Agency, and Power in History,” American Historical Review 107 (2002): 798–820.[22]
“Fertilizing the Tree of Knowledge: Environmental History Comes of Age,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 35 (Autumn 2004): 265–277.[24]
American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn, W. W. Norton, 2006.[25]ISBN9780393329308
Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York, Simon & Schuster, 2014.[26]ISBN9781476741246
“Private Property and the Defiance of Natural Limits: Coastal Flooding in the United States’ Largest City,” Global Environment 11 (2018): 208–218.[27]
“Can Karl Polanyi Explain the Anthropocene? The Commodification of Nature and the Great Acceleration,” Geographical Review 109 (April 2019): 265–270.[28]
Steinberg has written editorials expressing criticism of the market economy and capitalism.[33]
He also serves as faculty adviser for the Radical Student Union and faculty adviser for Students for Justice in Palestine at Case Western Reserve University.[34][35]
↑ Back cover of Theodore Steinberg, Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England, Reprint. University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.
↑ "Publication Award". Ohio Academy of History. 19 March 2013. Retrieved 2017-12-06.
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