Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel, "Histoire et Climat"
An early example of French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie’s work on the impact of climate change on human history.
An early example of French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie’s work on the impact of climate change on human history.
Minstrels (or waits) in the 15th century Port of Sandwich walked the streets at night and woke mariners with information about wind directions…
Over the Colonial period, prolonged drought episodes had severe impacts on all sectors of society, particularly indigenous rural populations. This paper employs a variety of colonial historical records to document the nature and extent of these impacts within the context of prevailing social, political and economic conditions.
As the millennium approaches it seems that environmental historians are increasingly drawn to the task of writing world history…
Lawrence Culver, Carson Center fellow from June to December 2010, speaks about his research project “Manifest Disaster: Climate and the Making of America.”
Lajos Rácz, Carson Fellow from June 2010 to June 2011, talks about his research project, “An Environmental History of Hungary.”
Why do we continue to talk about the debate over global warming as if it were a scientific controversy?
Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins hundreds of millions of years ago and spans the globe. Coal is a captivating narrative about an ordinary substance with an extraordinary impact on human civilization.
Examines the weather records of Thomas Thistlewood, a large property and slave-owner in eighteenth-century Jamaica.
Sigurd Bergmann, Carson Fellow from December 2011 until February 2012, talks about his research concerning religious worldviews and the perception of the environment.