"Artists with Axes"
While their paintings and photographs sometimes helped to secure the protection of particular places, nineteenth-century artists often showed little respect for the environment when they set about securing their views.
While their paintings and photographs sometimes helped to secure the protection of particular places, nineteenth-century artists often showed little respect for the environment when they set about securing their views.
Minstrels (or waits) in the 15th century Port of Sandwich walked the streets at night and woke mariners with information about wind directions…
The idea for this journal began as a result of a conversation between the editor and Professor Ranajit Guha in 1988. “What we need now,” Professor Guha claimed, “is a history of sticks and stones.”
Malcolm Chase reviews the sequel to Anna Bramwell’s Ecology in the 20th Century: A 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 review of an introduction to environmental history by an historical geographer and of a comprehensive account of the Valasian bisses with directions for twenty one walks, the work of a former British consul in Geneva.
The author discusses some conceptual problems of environmental history and their effect upon historiographical practice, with special reference to several open questions of German forest history.
An introduction to the essays in this special issue, which provide new perspectives on local as well as state and international environmental politics, and their interactions.
Focusing first on official discourse and the conflict which accompanied the passage of early conservation legislation, this article then looks at the different interpretations of the effects of implementation in Shurugwi communal area.
This article presents some local understandings of ecological history in a semi-arid area of Zimbabwe as an exploration of how changes in land use that reflect both local initiative and state planning have transformed the hydrology of local catchments of heavy clay ‘mopani soils’ and greatly accelerated soil erosion.