‘Wilderness’ has become a widely used term in environmentalist discussion as a symbol for caring about nature. Haila delves into the historical background of the term.
This article examines a series of projects and discussions among the Enlightenment elite in the Danish kingdom, that relate to the need for technological improvement and agricultural reform in Iceland, a distant province of the Danish state in the eighteenth century.
This essay charts and reflects on developments in the environmental history of the Americas over the past decade, arguing that the field has become more inclusive and complex as it tackles a broader spectrum of physical environments and moves beyond an emphasis on destructiveness and loss as the essence of relations between humans and the rest of the natural world.
Jocelyn Thorpe, currently an assistant professor of women’s studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland, talks about her work on the social construction of the Temagami region as a wilderness area and its implications for the Teme-Augama Anishnabai.
This book links the environmental movement that emerged in the United States during the 1960s to earlier progressive movements and considers the importance of race, ethnicity, class, and gender issues for the history and evolution of environmentalism.
A small town in northwestern Montana is beset by the worst case of community-wide exposure to a toxic substance in US history.
A comprehensive history of the Adirondack mountain range in the eastern United States.
How a site in San Francisco that had been a military base for much of its modern history became a unique, urban national park.
An account of how national parks developed into one of the most important arenas of contention between native peoples and non-Indians in the twentieth century.
An interview with Joachim Radkau, professor of history at the University of Bielefeld in Germany and author of Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment..
