Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel, "Histoire et Climat"
An early example of French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie’s work on the impact of climate change on human history.
An early example of French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie’s work on the impact of climate change on human history.
The majority of articles in this issue of Environment and History shed some light on the relationship between colonialism and the environment and on colonial constructions of nature.
The science of palynology has proved to be a good tool to reconstruct the past, to build up archaeological scenarios and to record climatic changes during the Holocene period. However, the terms employed to denote climate, like arid and humid, are often used without proper definitions, ignoring intricacies of climate…
This paper discusses changes in land and vegetation cover and natural resources of the Cape Verde Islands since their colonisation by the Portuguese around 1460.
This issue of Environment and History completes a third year of the new journal, and presents a useful opportunity for reflection about the state of the discipline.
As the millennium approaches it seems that environmental historians are increasingly drawn to the task of writing world history…
Why do we continue to talk about the debate over global warming as if it were a scientific controversy?
Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.
Covers the content of this issue’s analysis of modern environmental systems, and how these systems have changed over time.
The first in a projected series of video installations that seeks to explore the environmental humanities as a scholarly domain of growing significance.