Abstract

ABSTRACT The Death of Nature offered a promising bridge between the history of ecological thought, a subject of the history of science, and the history of environmental change, the purview of environmental history. Such bridging was an ambitious goal, hindered, as this essay argues, by the histories and politics of academic disciplines and their publics. Directions in both the history of science and environmental history, as well as the current political climate in the United States, make today an opportune moment once again to explore productive places of exchange that The Death of Nature invited us to consider twenty‐five years ago.