Eric Jay Dolin Books in Order

Eric Jay Dolin charts Boston Harbor’s pollution and cleanup through an annotated chronology of events, documents, and legislation. Beginning with colonial sewage controls, the account follows centuries of environmental damage, political disputes, and court-ordered efforts to restore the harbor.

The Federal Duck Stamp Program links wildlife conservation with art and collecting. Its history reveals how campaigners created a source of habitat funding, while the stamps and paintings developed lasting significance for artists, collectors, and conservationists.

The history of America’s national wildlife refuges follows their growth from Theodore Roosevelt’s first protected site into a nationwide conservation system. Photographs and accounts of the landscapes, wildlife, and people reveal how these sanctuaries preserve the country’s natural heritage.

A snakehead fish discovered in American waters becomes a national sensation and a symbol of ecological anxiety. Eric Jay Dolin follows the story behind the headlines while examining the wider problems posed by invasive species.

Boston Harbor’s pollution and eventual recovery unfold through centuries of environmental damage, political conflict, and public investment. The account follows sewage management and the institutions that transformed a degraded waterway into a major example of urban environmental restoration.

Doctoral study combines intellectual excitement with isolation, bureaucracy, and uncertainty. This humorous guide follows the process from choosing a school and handling coursework to navigating faculty relationships, defending a dissertation, and returning to life beyond graduate school.

Eric Jay Dolin follows American whaling from early colonial ventures through its nineteenth-century peak and eventual decline. The industry’s ships, crews, fortunes, and dangers reveal how hunting whales helped shape the nation’s economic and social history.

From colonial trading posts to western frontiers, the pursuit of valuable animal pelts helped shape North America. Eric Jay Dolin traces the fur trade’s fortunes, imperial rivalries, Indigenous relationships, and environmental destruction across three centuries.

Eric Jay Dolin traces the beginnings of American trade with China through voyages involving tea, furs, opium, and other valuable cargoes. Merchants, pirates, and political leaders reveal the commercial ambitions and human costs behind an uneasy international relationship.

The history of American lighthouses traces the country’s transformation from colonial outpost to industrial power. Stories of their builders, keepers, and coastal communities connect these landmarks to broader changes in technology, commerce, and national life.

Eric Jay Dolin explores piracy around colonial America during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Following figures such as Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, he shows how coastal communities first benefited from pirates and later turned against them.

Five centuries of hurricanes reveal another side of American history, from threatened voyages to devastated cities. Eric Jay Dolin follows major storms, the people caught in them, and the developing science that seeks to predict their destructive paths.

Privately owned armed ships harassed British trade throughout the American Revolution. Eric Jay Dolin follows their crews and encounters, examining how sailors driven by patriotism and profit became a crucial part of the struggle for independence.

During the War of 1812, a disastrous encounter between American and British vessels leaves five men stranded in the Falkland Islands. Their eighteen-month ordeal unfolds through betrayal, ingenuity, scarcity, and the struggle to secure rescue.

An American whaleship wrecks near Palau in 1832, leaving its crew dependent on unfamiliar shores and uncertain encounters. Eric Jay Dolin reconstructs the voyage, captivity, and negotiations that expose the collisions between maritime ambition and Indigenous sovereignty.