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2018     Landscapes of hope : nature and the great migration in Chicago by Brian McCammack
2017     The river, the plain, and the state : an environmental drama in northern Song China, 1048–1128 by Ling Zhang
2016     Power lines : Phoenix and the making of the modern southwest by Andrew Needham
2015     Taming Manhattan : environmental battles in the antebellum city by Catherine McNeur
2014     Plutopia : nuclear families, atomic cities, and the great Soviet and American plutonium disasters by Kate Brown
2013     Hybrid nature : sewage treatment and the contradictions of the industrial ecosystem by Daniel Schneider
2012     Quagmire : nation-building and nature in the Mekong Delta by David Biggs
2011     Toxic archipelago : a history of industrial disease in Japan by Brett Walker
2010     Mass destruction : the men and giant mines that wired America and scarred the planet by Timothy LeCain
2009     Killing for coal : America's deadliest labor war by Thomas Andrews
2008     Resurrecting the granary of Rome : environmental history and French colonial expansion in North Africa by Diana K. Davis
2007     Banana cultures : agriculture, consumption, and environmental change in Honduras and the United States by John Soluri
2006     Maize and grace : Africa's encounter with a New World crop, 1500-2000 by James C. McCann
2005     The great meadow : farmers and the land in colonial Concord by Brian Donahue
2004     The light-green society : ecology and technological modernity in France, 1960–2000 by Michael Bess
2003     The health of the country : how American settlers understood themselves and their land by Conevery Bolton Valencius
2002     Crimes against nature : squatters, poachers, thieves, and the hidden history of American conservation by Karl Jacoby; Winds of change : hurricanes and the transformation of nineteenth-century Cuba by Louis A. Pérez, Jr.
2001     The sanitary city : urban infrastructure in America from colonial times to the present by Martin Melosi
2000     Making salmon : an environmental history of the Northwest fisheries crisis by Joseph E. Taylor III
1999     Inhabited wilderness : Indians, Eskimos, and national parks in Alaska by Theodore Catton; Discovering the unknown landscape : a history of America's wetlands by Ann Vileisis
1997     The way to the West : essays on the Central Plains by Elliott West; With broadax and firebrand : the destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic forest by Warren Dean
1995     A view to a death in the morning : hunting and nature through history by Matt Cartmill; Ogallala : water for a dry land by John Opie
1993     Nature's metropolis : Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon
1991     Games against nature : an eco-cultural history of the Nunu of equatorial Africa by Robert Harms
1989     The fisherman's problem : ecology and law in the California fisheries, 1850-1980 by Arthur F. McEvoy