Review of Global Environmental History: 10,000 BC to AD 2000 by Ian Gordon Simmons
Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.
Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.
A collection of essays that explore the “paper landscapes” of the colonial literature and archives in search of the real environmental history of Indonesia.
Taking an environmental history perspective of the nothwestern plains, this book represents an excellent example of how to tie the human experience to the limits and opportunities presented by environment.
Richards shows how humans—whether clearing forests or draining wetlands, transporting bacteria, insects, and livestock; hunting species to extinction, or reshaping landscapes—altered the material well-being of the natural world along with their own.
An examination of the relationship between African Americans and the environment in US history.
In episode 22 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj talks to Claire Campbell, the editor of A Century of Parks Canada, and contributing authors George Colpitts and Gwynn Langemann on Canada’s national parks history from coast to coast.
The graphic reproduction shows the icebear hunt in Greenland, several sailing ships and boats from that time, the long-tailed monkey mentioned in the title, and even a whale in the background.
Roger Scruton discusses totemism and its ecological function.
Michael Adams reviews initial research exploring non-Indigenous hunting participation and motivation in Australia, as a window into further understanding connections between humans, non-humans, and place.
This Arcadia article by environmental historian Wilko von Hardenberg shows how after almost a century on the brink of extinction, bears are once again roaming the eastern Italian Alps.