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Mark Stoll

Prof. Dr. Mark Stoll

Carson Fellow

Mark Stoll is professor of environmental history at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, USA. He is author of Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism and Protestantism, Capitalism, and Nature in America. Stoll also co-edited (with Dianne Glave) "To Love the Wind and the Rain": African Americans and Environmental History (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005). Between 2005 and 2008, he edited a book series on global environmental history entitled Nature and Human Societies for ABC-Clio.

RCC Research Project: Capitalism: An Environmental History


Selected Publications:

  • Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism. Oxford: OUP, 2015.
  • Protestantism, Capitalism, and Nature in America. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997.
  • "'Sagacious' Bernard Palissy: Pinchot, Marsh, and the Connecticut Origins of Conservation." Environmental History 16 (January 2011): 4–37.
  • "Milton in Yosemite: Paradise Lost and the National Parks Idea." Environmental History 13 (April 2008): 237–274.
  • "Sinners in the Hands of an Ecological Crisis: Lynn White's Environmental Jeremiad." In Religion and Ecological Crisis: The "Lynn White Thesis" at Fifty, edited by Todd LeVasseur and Anna Peterson. New York and Oxon: Routledge, 2016.
  • "Les influences religieuses sur le mouvement écologiste français." In Une protection de la nature et de l'environnement à la française, edited by Charles-François Mathis and Jean-François Mouhot. Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2013.