John McNeill on “An Environmental History of the Industrial Revolution”
John McNeill, Carson Fellow from June to August 2011, talks about his project to write a global environmental history of the industrial revolution.
John McNeill, Carson Fellow from June to August 2011, talks about his project to write a global environmental history of the industrial revolution.
For nearly a century, we have relied increasingly on science and technology to harness natural forces, but at what environmental and social cost?
A prize-winning short film about a man who, living a lonely life under dark clouds of industrial smog somewhere in a futuristic city, receives a mysterious package enabling him to change his environment.
Analysing the natural and social conditions for soil nutrients in the small Catalan village of Sentmenat during the 1860s, this interdisciplinary study aims to bridge the gap between history and ecology in order to draw lessons for sustainable agricultural systems from the pre-industrial era.
Green Versus Gold examines California’s environmental history, ranging from its Native American past to conflicts and movements of recent decades.
The arrival in 2010 of a major international public art exhibition in the heart of the Emscher valley marked a new chapter in the regeneration of an area, where infrastructure, environmental, and art history continue to become entangled in new and fascinating ways.
This article examines energy consumption, the transition from organic to fossil energy carriers, and the consequent CO2 emissions over a period of almost 150 years (1861–2000) in Italy and Spain.
Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.
Stefania Barca presents an environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, through the lens of the Liri River Valley.
This book is a collection of papers from one of the first major US conferences on environmental history, which took place 1–3 January 1982 at the University of California’s Irvine campus, and brought together over 100 scholars active in the field.