A new series on Histories of Capitalism and the Environment will be published through West Virginia University Press and edited by Bart Elmore, an assistant professor of history at the University of Alabama.

In recent years the history of capitalism has generated excitement both within and beyond the academy, including front-page coverage of the emerging sub-discipline in The New York Times. Very little of this attention, however, has drawn connections to the work of environmental historians.

The new Histories of Capitalism and the Environment series will address this significant gap by bringing capitalism back to ground. It will highlight the environmental transformations wrought by capitalist enterprises in the modern era and also expose the ways in which nature shaped capitalism’s contours.

Taking inspiration from field-defining books like Richard White’s Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, the series will unite two of history’s most vibrant subfields. Its subject matter will range from how nature was implicated in the ideological origins of capitalism to studies of capitalism at the scale of human bodies.

About the series editor:

Bart Elmore is assistant professor of history at the University of Alabama and the author of Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism, a book that traces the global environmental history of the Coca-Cola Company. He is a contributor to The Huffington Post, Salon, and Fortune.

Editorial advisory board:

The editorial advisory board for this series includes: James R. Allison III, Christopher Newport University; Thomas D. Finger, Northern Arizona University; Stephen Macekura, Indiana University; Emily Pawley, Dickinson College; and Christine Rosen, University of California, Berkeley.

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