"Man and the Natural World: Reflections on History and Anthropology"
The efforts of both anthropologists and historians have been weakened by a failure to take into account what the other half were doing…
The efforts of both anthropologists and historians have been weakened by a failure to take into account what the other half were doing…
Ringbarking, as a means of destroying trees, was known and practised from the earliest years of British settlement in New South Wales…
Taking a long-term approach following one family of Pakeha through four generations of interaction with the Hauraki Plains wetlands, this study argues that the environmental transformation that happened there was less a question of culture than of a specific time and place (context of civilisation).
Environmental historian Federico Paolini talks to Wolfgang Sachs, head of the Berlin office of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy, about some of today’s major environmental issues. These range from ecological justice to resources, development, and climate.
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of how two indigenous communities, in Russia’s Republic of Altai and in California, are resisting government mega-projects.
The contributions in this volume explore the way that Australasian environments have been envisioned, worked, and changed in the past, and how ideas about places inform the present and future of the continent.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Malcolm Harris is interviewed on his recent book, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World.
An edited volume examining and challenging the reputed “greenness” of Finland.