Richard White Books in Order
Richard White has written 11 books, published between 1979 and 2022. The first book is Land Use, Environment, and Social Change (1979) and the newest is Who Killed Jane Stanford? (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 11
- Published
- 1979–2022
- Pages on record
- 4,345 in 10 of 11 books
- Reading time
- 72–109 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,345 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 10 of 11 titles with a page count on record.
Richard White is a historian of the American West, of land use and of the environment. The catalogue holds 11 books dated between 1979 and 2022, from Land Use, Environment, and Social Change (1979) to Who Killed Jane Stanford? (2022), all credited to White. Recorded subjects include the history of the West, economic conditions, land use in the United States, Washington state history, Algonquian Indians, and the social and economic conditions of Indians of North America. Titles in the run include The Roots of Dependency (1983), The Middle Ground (1991), The Organic Machine (1995), Railroaded (2011) and The Republic for Which It Stands (2017).
How many Richard White books are there?
Richard White has 11 books, released between 1979 and 2022.
Richard White Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 11 Richard White books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Land Use, Environment, and Social Change1979 · 234 pages · confirmed 1/419792341/4
- 2The Roots of Dependency1983 · 433 pages · confirmed 1/419834331/4
- 3The Middle GroundCambridge Studies in North American Indian History #31991 · 544 pages · confirmed 1/419915441/4
- 4It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own1991 · 664 pages · confirmed 1/419916641/4
- 5The Frontier in American Culture1994 · 116 pages · confirmed 1/419941161/4
- 619951301/4
- 7Remembering Ahanagran1998 · 303 pages · confirmed 1/419983031/4
- 8Railroaded2011 · 660 pages · confirmed 1/420116601/4
- 9The Republic for Which It StandsOxford History of the United States #132017 · 941 pages · confirmed 1/420179411/4
- 10California Exposures2020 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/420203201/4
- 11Who Killed Jane Stanford?2022 · confirmed 1/42022–1/4
Richard White books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Cambridge Studies in North American Indian History in order
1 bookCritical Issue in order
1 bookOxford History of the United States in order
1 bookStandalone books
8 books8 Richard White titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Richard White books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 11 Richard White books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Richard White
Start with Land Use, Environment, and Social Change (1979), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Richard White book?
Who Killed Jane Stanford? (2022) is the newest Richard White book released so far.
Is there a new Richard White book coming?
No next Richard White book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Richard White at a glance
- Paused
- No new Richard White title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
- Release pace
- Richard White books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
- Length
- 4,345 pages across the 10 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 376 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Richard White books, 5 of 11, were published in the 1990s.
What the Richard White books are about
10 of the 11 Richard White books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: history is tagged on 7 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- History 7 of 10 books
- West (u.s.), history 2 of 10 books