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Andrew C. Isenberg

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Language
  
English

Citizenship
  
United States

Nationality
  
American

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Occupation
  
Temple University historian

Alma mater
  
St. Olaf College Northwestern University

Notable works
  
Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life

Education
  
St. Olaf College, Northwestern University

Books
  
The Destruction of the Bis, Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life, Mining California, The Nature of Cities

Andrew C. Isenberg (born 1964) is an award winning historian at Temple University. He is a specialist in environmental history, Native American history, and the history of the North American West and its borderlands.

He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and educated at St. Olaf College, from which he graduated magna cum laude. He received his Ph.D. in History from Northwestern University. He has also taught at the University of Puget Sound, Brown University, and Princeton University. As an author, he has been largely collected by libraries worldwide, with his book Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life being largely reviewed. His other following books were also reviewed.

Publications

  • The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
  • Mining California: An Ecological History (New York: Hill and Wang, 2005)]. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title.
  • The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2006
  • Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life (New York: Hill and Wang, 2013). Finalist for the Weber-Clements Prize for Best Nonfiction Book in Southwestern America.
  • The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).

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