The recipient of this year’s S-USIH Book Prize, awarded annually for the best academic book in US intellectual history published in the previous year, is Keith Makoto Woodhouse, for The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018). In The Ecocentrists, Keith Makoto Woodhouse has crafted a provocative history of the radical environmental movement that exposes the tensions between the human-centeredness of modern liberal thought and the concerns to defend the natural world that is increasingly imperiled by human development. Beginning with both the theoretical divide between nature and culture and early movements to defend the Read more