Fishing for Souls: Water Technology and the Dutch Baroque
This article examines how issues of representation and aesthetics have impacted the environmental history of early modern Europe.
This article examines how issues of representation and aesthetics have impacted the environmental history of early modern Europe.
This short piece by former Rachel Carson Center fellow Lisa Sideris is a contribution to the Great Transition Initiative’s forum Big History and Great Transition.
A monograph on the history of sacred mountains on a global scale since 1500.
The full three volumes of a comprehensive work on the relationship between humans and bears.
An account of the 1795 mass drowning on Lough Derg in Ireland’s County Donegal.
This chapter in the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by Raymond Chipeniuk, shows that in many cultures the idea of wilderness has been borrowed from the English-speaking world.
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by philosopher Holmes Rolston, deals with the Greek and Hebrew words in the Bible translated as “wilderness.”
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by geographer María José Barragán-Paladines, highlights the immense spectrum of variations of wilderness within the Spanish-speaking world that make the term a rich and complex source for semantics.
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by historian Lars Elenius, looks at Swedish notions of wilderness and its uses over history.