Publications

Teisch, Jessica B. Engineering Nature: Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

Teisch, Jessica B. Da Vinci for Dummies. Hoboken, New Jers.: Wiley, 2005. Translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Dutch, Serbian, and Bulgarian. Appeared as expert on The Learning Channel’s “Da Vinci Declassified,” 10/05.

Teisch, Jessica B. “Sweetening the Urban Marketplace: California’s Hawaiian Outpost.” In Cities and Nature in the American West. Ed. Char Miller. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2010.

Teisch, Jessica B. “Miners versus Farmers in California.” In Major Problems in American Environmental History: Documents and Essays. 3rd Edition. Ed. Carolyn Merchant. Boston: Wadsworth, 2012.

Caldwell, Margaret, Tegan Churcher Hoffmann, Stephen Palumbi, Jessica Teisch. Pacific Ocean Synthesis: Scientific Literature Review of Coastal and Ocean Threats, Impacts, and Solutions. Stanford University: Center for Ocean Solutions, 2009.

Teisch, Jessica B. “’Home is not so far away’: Californian Engineers in South Africa, 1868-1915,” Australian Economic History Review 45.2 (July 2005): 139-160.

Teisch, Jessica B.  “William Hammond Hall, City Water, and Progressive-Era Reform in San Francisco.” In The Human Tradition in California, eds. Clark Davis and David Igler. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources Books, 2002.

Teisch, Jessica B.  “Great Western Power, ‘White Coal,’ and Industrial Capitalism in the West.” Pacific Historical Review 70 (May 2001): 221-253. Awarded W. Turrentine Jackson Prize.

Teisch, Jessica B.  “The Drowning of Big Meadows: Nature’s Managers in Progressive-Era California.” Environmental History 4 (Jan. 1999): 32-53.

Teisch, Jessica B. “Sources in California Environmental History.” In Green Versus Gold: Sources in California Environmental History, ed. Carolyn Merchant.  Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1998.

Teisch, Jessica B.  “From the Dust Bowl to California: The Beautiful Fraud.” The Midwest Quarterly 34 (Winter 1998): 153-172.

Teisch, Jessica B. Bibliography of California Environmental History. Berkeley: University of California, College of Natural Resources, 1998.

Teisch, Jessica B.  Selected Bibliography for the Study of the Environmental History of North America. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina: National Humanities Center, 1996, rev. 1998, 2000.

Teisch, Jessica B. Environmental Education in the Classroom. Yosemite: Yosemite Association, 1994.