17年前,当我为《太平洋历史评论》(Pacific Historical Review)撰写《环境史:一个史学新领域的发展》(Environmental History:TheDevelopment of a New Historical Field)这篇文章时,只花了一个夏天的功夫。那时,这个领域的规模还不大,我的阅读很容易跟上文献产生的速度。那个夏天,即使用一部分时间做其他事情,也足以让我把当时没有考察过的文献读完。然而,那篇文章却有令人不快的疏忽。我遗漏了朱尔·塔儿的著作,为此羞愧不已。塔尔的学术成就无疑对城市环境史起到了奠基作用。从现在的情况看,这个领域已无可争辩地成为环境史最繁茂的一支。不过,这个疏忽完全是因我个人的失误,而不是这个领域的规模所致,因为当时环境史研究的整体状况还是易于把握的。如今,《太平洋历史评论》的编 Seventeen years ago, when I wrote the article “Environmental History: The Development of a New Historical Field for the Pacific Historical Review,” it took only one summer Kung Fu. At that time, the size of the field was not large and my reading was easy to keep up with the speed of documentation. That summer, even doing some other things for a portion of my time was enough for me to finish reading the literature I had not examined at the time. However, the article has unpleasant negligence. I have lost my mind about the writings of Jules Tower. Thal’s academic achievement undoubtedly played a cornerstone role in the history of the urban environment. Judging from the current situation, this area has indisputably become the longest history of environmental history. However, this omission is entirely due to my personal mistakes, not the scale of the field, because the overall status of environmental history research was still easy to grasp. Today, the “Pacific Historical Review” series