"Artists with Axes"
While their paintings and photographs sometimes helped to secure the protection of particular places, nineteenth-century artists often showed little respect for the environment when they set about securing their views.
While their paintings and photographs sometimes helped to secure the protection of particular places, nineteenth-century artists often showed little respect for the environment when they set about securing their views.
The review of an introduction to environmental history by an historical geographer and of a comprehensive account of the Valasian bisses with directions for twenty one walks, the work of a former British consul in Geneva.
A review of: Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama; Ecological Relations in Historical Times: Human Impact and Adaptation by Robin A. Butlin, and Neil Roberts; and Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia by Tom Griffiths.
Stapledon’s suspicions of inductive science and reductionist economics, his concern with holism, ‘spiritual values’ and ‘the nature of things’ and his emphasis upon breadth of vision and the cultivation of the imagination was in stark contrast to many scientists of the day.
Thomas Pringle (1789–1834) was perhaps the most famous of the British settlers who landed at the Cape in 1820…
The authors identify two distinct forms of masculinity, Australian and Cuban, and proceed to show how men and their rhetoric are overtaken, then transformed, by political and environmental developments not of their choosing.
This article examines the alienation of water users in the lower Colorado River Basin from the river and its delta during the twentieth century.
Shane McCorristine, a Carson fellow from June to September 2010, talks about how the arctic regions were understood in the nineteenth century.
An introduction to seven articles—five of which are written by current doctoral or recent postdoctoral students—that explore ideas, themes, and methods relating to research in the field in New Zealand.
George Perkins Marsh chose to open Man and Nature, his magnum opus, with a discussion of the environmental decline and fall of the Roman Empire…