# George Perkins Marsh Prize

The George Perkins Marsh Prize is an annual book prize awarded by the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH). The prize, which was awarded bi-annually from its inception in 1989 until becoming an annual award in 2000, is awarded to what is adjudged to be the best book in environmental history. The award is named for the early American conservationist George Perkins Marsh.

## Recipients

| Year | Winner | Title |
| 1989 | Arthur F. McEvoy | The Fisherman's Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980 |
| 1991 | Robert Harms | Games Against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa |
| 1993 | William Cronon | Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West |
| 1995 | John Opie Matt Cartmill | Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature through History |
| 1997 | Warren Dean Elliott West | With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains |
| 1999 | Ann Vileisis Theodore Catton | Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America's Wetlands Inhabited Wilderness: Indians, Eskimos and National Parks in Alaska |
| 2000 | Joseph E. Taylor III | Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis |
| 2001 | Martin Melosi | The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present |
| 2002 | Louis A. Perez, Jr. Karl Jacoby | Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation |
| 2003 | Conevery Bolton Valencius | The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land |
| 2004 | Michael Bess | The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000 |
| 2005 | Brian Donahue | The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord |
| 2006 | James C. McCann | Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop: 1500-2000 |
| 2007 | John Soluri | Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States |
| 2008 | Diana K. Davis | Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa |
| 2009 | Thomas Andrews | Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War |
| 2010 | Timothy LeCain | Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines that Wired America and Scarred the Planet |
| 2011 | Brett Walker | Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan |
| 2012 | David Biggs | Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta |
| 2013 | Daniel Schneider | Hybrid Nature: Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the I Industrial Ecosystem |
| 2014 | Kate Brown | Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters |
| 2015 | Catherine McNeur | Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City |
| 2016 | Andrew Needham | Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest |
| 2017 | Ling Zhang | The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048–1128 |
| 2018 | Brian McCammack | Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago |
| 2019 | Megan Black | The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power |
| 2020 | Bathsheba Demuth | Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait |
| 2021 | Jamie Kreiner | Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West |
| 2022 | Lucas Bessire | Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains |
| 2023 | Ruth Rogaski | Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland |
| 2024 | Tamar Novick | Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land |