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Giacomo Bonan, The State in the Forest: Contested Commons in the Nineteenth Century Venetian Alps Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Giacomo Parrinello
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For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Uncounted Extinctions and the (Missed?) Opportunities to Prevent Them Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Virginia Thomas
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Alexandra Goryashko, A Wild Bird and a Cultured Man. The Common Eider and Homo Sapiens: Fourteen Centuries Together Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Jenny Lhamo Tsundu
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Conceptualising Small Watersheds as Infrastructures of Immobility to Address Distress induced Rural-Urban Migration in India Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Shashank Deora,Pankaj Sekhsaria
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Caring for Waterscapes in the Anthropocene: Heritage-making at Budj Bim, Victoria, Australia Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Sue Jackson
Australian waterscapes were fashioned to meet human needs during the ancient Aboriginal past through the construction of weirs, fish traps and small dams and accompanying socio-cultural practices and institutions. Exemplary amongst Australian water cultures was that of the Gunditjmara of western Victoria, who for thousands of years practiced a sophisticated form of swamp engineering and eel farming
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Working Like a Dog: Canine Labour, Technological Unemployment, and Extinction in Industrialising England Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Neil Humphrey
The turnspit dog, an extinct breed, powered English roasting spits from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries by rotating an apparatus comparable to a hamster wheel. It was not merely a working breed, however. It was an animal labourer. Breeders bred it solely for work. Contemporaries conceived of it as an industrious worker intrinsic to food production. Despite its importance, owners treated it
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Ottoman Lakes and Fluid Landscapes: Environing, Wetlands and Conservation in the Marmara Lake Basin, Circa 1550–1900 Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Semih Çelik,Christina Luke,Christopher H. Roosevelt
The study of Ottoman lakes and wetlands from the perspective of management and conservation is an emerging field. Scholars have explored Ottoman strategies for managing agricultural and extractive landscapes, yet detailed investigation of socio-political responses to dynamic wetlands, particularly during periods of drastic climate shifts, requires deeper investigation. Our research on wetlands and
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Sand and the City: On Colonial Development and its Evasive Enemies in Twentieth-Century Palestine Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Dotan Halevy
This article traces the colonial origins of a crucial aspect of the environmentalist discourse since the mid-twentieth century – the idea that planetary substances should be stripped of ownership rights and become in and of themselves the subject of rights. The article looks closely at the Gaza region under British mandatory rule to explain how the rehabilitation of Gaza city, devastated during WWI
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Creatures of the Clearings: Deforestation, Grass-Cutting Ants and Multispecies Landscape Change in Postcolonial Brazil Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Diogo de Carvalho Cabral
Without denying its striking destructiveness, deforestation can be seen as a socio-ecological process through which humans negotiate their place-making with the earth and its nonhuman inhabitants. In this article I combine qualitative and geospatial methods to document and analyse how forest clearing drove the range expansion of Atta ants in southeast Brazil over the nineteenth and early twentieth
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Rachel Rothschild, Poisonous Skies - Acid Rain and the Globalization of Pollution Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Troy Vettese
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Susan Hough, The Great Quake Debate. The Crusader, the Skeptic and the Rise of Modern Seismology Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 David Chester
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Charles-François Mathis and Émilie-Anne Pépy, Greening the City: Nature in French Towns from the 17th Century Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Karen R. Jones
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Carolyn Merchant, The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Miles Alexander Powell
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Jonathan Clapperton and Liza Piper, eds., Environmental Activism on the Ground: Small Green and Indigenous Organizing Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Darren Speece
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Peder Anker, Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Gregory Ferguson-Cradler
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Atmospheric Archives: Gender and Climate Knowledge in Colonial Tasmania Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Harriet Mercer
There is a rich cache of letters detailing the production of climate knowledge at Tasmania's Hobart Observatory in the early nineteenth century. By contrast, a mere handful of sentences survive in the written record to describe the production of climate knowledge outside the Hobart Observatory, in Tasmania's north-east. In this paper, I confront the question of what to do with these unbalanced archival
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Paul Star, Thomas Potts of Canterbury: Colonist and Conservationist Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 James Beattie
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Locating 'Coolie' Women's Health in Tea Plantation Environments in Colonial Assam Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Namrata Borkotoky
The history of Assam tea plantations in India is well-documented, yet a gender sensitive environmental history of these colonially-introduced plantation landscapes is absent. The colonial tea planters saw advantages in a growing female presence in their plantations, in terms of increased male ties to the plantation, lower wages for female workers and the added benefit of biological reproduction that
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Ralph and Myrtle Mae Borsodi's Vision of Back-to-the-Land as a White Heteropatriarchal Refugium during the Great Depression Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Valerie Padilla Carroll
Ralph and Myrtle Mae Borsodi, two early twentieth century back-to-the-land writers based in rural New York state, wrote the rural agrarian smallholding as a kind of refugium, a philosophical and physical site for those self-sufficient smallholders to survive, even thrive, through an expected US cultural extinction. The centre of their back-to-the-land agrarian refugium is the heterocouple complete
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The 'Mallee-Made Man': Making Masculinity in the Mallee Lands of South Eastern Australia, 1890-1940 Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Katie Holmes
The southern Australian Mallee is a broad ecoregion comprising distinct landscapes, and the clearing and farming of these lands have presented specific challenges to generations of white settlers. Cultivation of this region was characterised as 'one of the most strenuous and resolute battles with Nature'. So began the shaping of an enduring mythology around the 'Mallee man'. In the context of the settler
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Ben Nobbs-Thiessen, Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolívia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Frederico Freitas
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Health, Hearth and Empire: Climate, Race and Reproduction in British India and Western Australia Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Ruth A. Morgan
In the wake of the Indian Uprising in 1857, British sanitary campaigner and statistician Florence Nightingale renewed her efforts to reform Britain's military forces at home and in India. With the Uprising following so soon after the Crimean War (1854-56), where poor sanitary conditions had also taken an enormous toll, in 1859 Nightingale pressed the British Parliament to establish a Royal Commission
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Placing Gender: Gender and Environmental History Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Katie Holmes,Ruth Morgan
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The Green Years: The Role of Abundant Water in Shaping Postwar Constructions of Rural Femininity Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Karen Twigg
This article offers one of the first studies to pay attention to the influence of abundant rain in advancing postwar agendas and shaping new constructions of rural femininity. Enriching an understanding of modernity, I use oral history testimony and private archives to illuminate women's emotional, social and sensory responses to plentiful water and the possibilities it fostered. While previous tropes
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Chad Montrie, The Myth of Silent Spring: Rethinking the Origins of American Environmentalism Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Thomas Le Roux
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Jessica Wang, Mad Dogs and other New Yorkers: Rabies, Medicine and Society in an American Metropolis Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Chris Pearson
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Leona J. Skelton, Tyne after Tyne: An Environmental History of a River's Battle for Protection Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Mark Riley
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Conflicting Interests: Development Politics and the Environmental Regulation of the Alberta Oil Sands Industry, 1970–1980 Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Hereward Longley
Alberta’s hydrocarbon deposits have been a mainstay of provincial economic development since the Second World War. When Imperial Oil struck oil near Leduc, Alberta in February 1947, it marked the beginning of a petroleum boom that rapidly transformed Alberta’s impoverished agricultural economy and drew thousands of people to the province. As demand for oil grew, the oil industry and the Alberta government
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Prudent Peasantries: Multilevel Adaptation to Drought in Early Modern Spain (1600–1715) Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Mar Grau-Satorras, Iago Otero, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Victoria Reyes-García
Climate change being a product of industrialization can easily fuel the idea that adaptation to climate impacts is something new. Scholars of the past, however, show that societies have dynamically and heterogeneously coped with climate variability and with recurrent and abrupt weather extremes. This research aims to explore adaptation in preindustrial societies taking into account different levels
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Building a Puerto Rico ‘Better than the One We Lost’: Hurricane San Felipe II and the Puerto Rican New Deal Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Alex Standen
This essay examines the connection between Hurricane San Felipe II (1928) and the Puerto Rican New Deal, an agrarian reconstruction plan initiated in 1933 to redistribute land, diversify agricultural production and create a more self-sufficient economy. I argue that San Felipe II played a critical role in intensifying and exposing the environmental conditions that gave rise to the Puerto Rican New
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Wild Blue: The Post-World War Two Ocean Frontier and its Legacy for Law of the Sea Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Helen M. Rozwadowski
The post-1945 ocean came to be viewed through the cultural prism of ‘frontier’, denoting both a bonanza of resources and also lawlessness that impeded secure investment in their exploitation. After Arvid Pardo inserted the cultural representation of ocean frontier into law of the sea discussions with his 1967 proposal of the ocean as the Common Heritage of (Hu)Mankind, the prospect of using hitherto
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‘A Kind of Sensory, Strange Thing to Experience’: Speaking Environmental Disaster in the Sea Empress Project Archive Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Timothy Cooper
This article explores embodied encounters with the Sea Empress oil spill of 1996 and their representation in oral narratives. Through a close reading of the personal testimonies collected in the Sea Empress Project archive, I examine the relationship between intense sensory experiences of environmental change and everyday interpretations of the disaster and its legacy. The article first outlines the
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The Various Reasons for Killing Wolves in the Fifteenth-Century Liberty of Bruges Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Kristiaan Dillen
In the fifteenth-century Liberty of Bruges, a rural castellany in the county of Flanders, a bounty system was established to promote the elimination of wolves. Prize money made the wolf not only an unwanted but also an actively tracked animal, a combination that resulted in its wholescale slaughter. Researchers who have previously examined these bounties believed that they were primarily part of a
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Managing Coastal Sand Drift in the Anthropocene: A Case Study of the Manawatū-Whanganui Dune Field, New Zealand, 1800s–2020s Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Ruwan Sampath,James Beattie,Joana Gaspar de Freitas
In the Anthropocene, dunes act as a natural defence from sea-level rise and storm surges while providing ‘ecosystem’ services. This article uses scientific and historical data to examine the Manawatū-Whanganui dune field in New Zealand from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. Dunes that were destabilised due to European settlements and their activities were drifting inland causing social, economic
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A Question of Utter Importance: The Early History of Climate Change and Energy Policy in Sweden, 1974–1983 Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Kristoffer Ekberg,Martin Hultman
This paper studies early arguments in Sweden for combating climate change. We show how scientific results in relation to climate change entered the political sphere as part of the debate on energy in the 1970s, a process we propose to name energysation. We argue that the use of climate science by pro-nuclear political actors served as a way of maintaining a course set by a high-energy society while
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The Horka Litter Raking Incident: On Foresters and Peasants in Nineteenth-Century Moravia Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Péter Szabó
Litter raking was a traditional forest use representing an interface between forestry and agriculture. In forest history, it has usually been presented as the harmful removal by peasants of biomass, which was gradually eliminated by foresters, leading to better forest preservation. Based on the example of an exceptionally well-documented case of illegal litter raking in Moravia in 1845, in this paper
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‘It’s Not a Reservoir; It’s Valuable Agricultural Land’: Controlled Use of Water and Deliberate Flooding in Lincolnshire Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Jane Rowling
The Lincolnshire lowlands owe their existence to a long-term programme of formal and informal drainage, by which the landscape has been managed since the Roman period. The public bodies that have held responsibility for this drainage, namely the Commissions of Sewers followed by the Internal Drainage Boards (IDBs) from 1930, are often perceived as solely aiming to remove water from the land as quickly
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Maize on the Move: The Diffusion of a Tropical Cultivar across Europe Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Loren Galesi
This article examines the transfer and reception of maize into Europe in the wake of the Columbian Exchange. Treating maize as a plant – and reviewing familiar historical sources through the lens of the plant’s likes and dislikes, its requirements and inherent traits – provides us with a novel source of information about how maize might have moved through European spaces, even in cases where the traditional
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Richard Hugh Grove (1955-2020) Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 John M. MacKenzie
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Russell McGregor, Idling in Green Places: A Life of Alec Chisholm Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Paul Star
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Cara New Daggett, The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Bob Johnson
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Shawn William Miller, The Street is Ours: Community, the Car, and the Nature of Public Space in Rio de Janeiro Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Joel Wolfe
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Modern Nature for a Modern Nation: An Intellectual History of Environmental Dissonances in the Swedish Welfare State Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Erland Mårald, Christer Nordlund
In the mid-1990s, the concept ‘ecological modernisation’ was established to characterise the perception that environmental protection and economic growth are not mutually exclusive but rather compr ...
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War of the Whales: Climate Change, Weather and Arctic Conflict in the Early Seventeenth Century Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Dagomar Degroot
Beginning in 1580, average annual temperatures across the Arctic cooled amid the regional onset of the “Grindelwald Fluctuation,” a particularly cold but volatile period in the Little Ice Age. By contributing to socioeconomic trends that raised the cost of vegetable oils, climatic cooling encouraged European merchants to establish rival whaling operations around the frigid archipelago of Svalbard,
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‘From Now on We All Demand: Give Us Pure Ice!’ – Natural and Artificial Ice in the Service of Food Hygiene in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Helsinki, Finland Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Paula Schönach
This study examines how natural and manufactured ice were embraced in the expanding realm of urban hygiene in the Finnish capital city of Helsinki during the latter half of the nineteenth century and especially during the first half of the twentieth century. The study reveals the ambivalent nature of ice, as it was used as a mediator of coldness for refrigeration purposes. While it benefitted hygienic
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The Nature of Mafia: An Environmental History of the Simeto River Basin, Sicily Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Marco Armiero, Filippo Gravagno, Giusy Pappalardo, Alessia Denise Ferrara
This article builds upon a rich scholarship that has proposed, though with different shades, the concept of socionatures, meaning by this the inextricable hybrid of ecological and social facts. In ...
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The Monster in the Corner of the Map: Russian Visitors Describe Nature on Sakhalin Island (1850–1905) Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Sharyl Corrado
If you look at a map of Asia, you’ll see in the right-hand corner, extended along the shore, something that looks like a monster opening its jaws, as if ready to swallow the nearby island of the Matusmae [Hokkaido]. The sharp declines of the coal beds, the zigzagged, broken lines of bare slate—they all indicate that some kind of great revolution took place here. The spine of the ‘monster’ twisted.
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Debjani Bhattacharya, Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta. The Making of Calcutta Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2020-08-01 Peter Robb
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Nature Mistaken: Resource-Making, Emotions and the Transformation of Peatlands in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2020-08-01 Katja Bruisch
This article examines the commodification and cultural perception of nature in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union through the case of peatland transformation. Drawing upon scientific texts, expert literature and policy documents, I analyse how since the late eighteenth century peatlands were turned into natural resources and how emotions played a crucial role in this process. The discourse about
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Wolfgang Behringer, Tambora and the Year without a Summer - How a Volcano Plunged the World into Crisis Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2020-08-01 David Chester
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Gabriella Corona, A Short Environmental History of Italy. Variety and Vulnerability Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2020-08-01 Claudio de Majo
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Conserving Wildlife Resources in Zimbabwe: Reflections on Chirinda Forest, 1920s–1979 Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2020-08-01 Noel Ndumeya
This article uses Chirinda Forest as a lens through which to view wildlife conservation policy and practice in colonial Zimbabwe. Situated in eastern Zimbabwe, Chirinda Forest was unique in that though located in a typical savannah climate, it was a tropical rainforest and the only one of its kind in Zimbabwe. The article examines the structure, variety, maturity and density of the forest’s trees.
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Sheep, Scab Mites, and Society: The Process and Politics of Veterinary Knowledge in Lesotho, Southern Africa, c. 1900–1933 Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2020-08-01 Christopher R. Conz
1 Sheep, Scab Mites, and Society: The Process and Politics of Veterinary Knowledge in Lesotho, Southern Africa, c. 1900-19331 Christopher R Conz Introduction Hoaba, a Mosotho man in his twenties, began work on a February morning in 1918. As the dipper at Ramatseliso’s Gate, a small border village in the Qacha’s Nek district of Lesotho, Hoaba dipped sheep that herders brought to the station each day
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A Tale of Two Yorkshire Villages: The Local Environmental Impact of British Reservoir Development, c.1866–1966 Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2020-08-01 Andrew McTominey
The supply of clean, soft water was of great importance to towns and cities in Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in helping to maintain a healthy population and the resources for industries. Leeds, West Yorkshire, was no exception to this, with the Leeds Corporation looking north of the town to the Washburn Valley in the 1860s for a new supply of water to replace the polluted waters
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Jeff Schauer, Wildlife between Empire and Nation in Twentieth-Century Africa Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Christopher Conz
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Christopher Abram, Evergreen Ash: Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth and Literature Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Karen Oslund
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Desert Dreams of Drinking the Sea, Consumed by the Cold War: Transnational Flows of Desalination and Energy from the Pacific to the Persian Gulf Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Michael Christopher Low
During the Cold War, from the early 1950s through the 1970s, the US Office of Saline Water was instrumental in spearheading the basic research and development that incubated the desalting techniques we see today. American technical assistance programs were fundamental to the growth of desalination capacity in the Middle East and its eventual globalisation. However, the federal government's original
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Deborah R. Coen, Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Martin Kalb
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Water, Sand, Molluscs: Imperial Infrastructures, the Age of Hydrology, and German Colonialism in Swakopmund, Southwest Africa, 1884-1915 Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Martin Kalb
How did nature challenge German colonialism in Southwest Africa? What role did water, sand, and a small mollusc play as Germans tried to establish their first and, in many ways, only settler colony? This paper explores the events surrounding the town of Swakopmund, a small coastal settlement defined as the main entry point (Eingangstur) into German Southwest Africa at the time. As a case study, Swakopmund
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The Challenge of Oral History to Environmental History Environment and History (IF 0.925) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Brian Williams, Mark Riley
Oral history has much to offer environmental history, yet the possibilities and promises of oral history remain underutilised in environmental history and environmental studies more broadly. Through a reflection on work in environmental history and associated disciplines, this paper presents a case for the strength and versatility of oral history as a key source for environmental history, while reflecting