Italian Environmental Literature: An Anthology
This volume brings together, for the first time—in Italy or for an English-speaking audience—a collection of over 40 authors from this deep and broad tradition of Italian environmental writing.
This volume brings together, for the first time—in Italy or for an English-speaking audience—a collection of over 40 authors from this deep and broad tradition of Italian environmental writing.
The contributions to this volume explore and uncover contemporary scholarship’s debt to the classical and medieval past.
This historiographical essay outlines and discusses major trends within European environmental history by highlighting recent discussions and future possibilities regarding collaboration across national borders and contexts, and ultimately arguing for more transnational cooperation within the field of environmental history.
Gregg Mitman examines the relationship between issues in early twentieth-century American society and the sciences of evolution and ecology to reveal how explicit social and political concerns influenced the scientific agenda of biologists at the University of Chicago and throughout the United States during the first half of the twentieth century.
While reading Baron von Humboldt’s 1807 Essay on the Geography of Plants, Paula Unger writes about modern science creating boundaries between the human and the nonhuman, and how Indigenous understandings transcend them.