A Rugged Nation: Mountains and the Making of Modern Italy
The nationalization of Italian mountains has been a story of military conquest and resistance, ecological and social transformation, expropriating resources and imposing meanings…
The nationalization of Italian mountains has been a story of military conquest and resistance, ecological and social transformation, expropriating resources and imposing meanings…
With the foundation of the mission village Botshabelo, new plant and animal species settle in this region, whose landscape is heavily altered.
Excerpt from An Environmental History of the Civil War.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, David B Williams is interviewed on his recent book, A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound.
Excerpt from Taming Fruit: How Orchards Have Transformed the Land, Offered Sanctuary, and Inspired Creativity by Bernd Brunner.
Excerpt from Woodland Imagery in Northern Art, c. 1500–1800 by Leopoldine van Hogendorp Prosperetti.
Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe: The Meuse Region, 1250–1850 by Sander Govaerts is available to download in its entirety.
The Riwo Sangchö is a Buddhist purification ritual that has become popular in response to the Coronavirus in Sikkim, India.
The settler occupation of Central Brazil is the focus of nineteenth-century landscape art.
The blooming desert in a 1940s magazine ad showcases the idyllic landscapes and conspicuous absences in atomic bucolic imagery.