A monograph on the postwar fear of scarcity and the influence of “neo-Malthusians.”
Books & Profiles
The Return of Malthus: Environmentalism and Post-war Population–Resource Crises
The Making of Modern Agriculture
A short excerpt from The Making of Modern Agriculture: Nelson Rockefeller’s American International Association (AIA) in Latin America (1946–1968), a book by Claiton Marcio da Silva published in 2023.
Anthropocene Days
A book by John Dargavel on how humans experience the Anthropocene in everyday life.
Conversations on Empathy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Imagination and Radical Othering
Full volume of Conversations on Empathy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Imagination and Radical Othering edited by Francesca Mezzenzana and Daniela Peluso.
Mobilizing Hope: Climate Change and Global Poverty
A book by Darrel Moellendorfs on climate change and poverty as two global phenomena that call for political action and radical hope.
Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha
A book by Robert A. Jacobs on the meaning, costs, and legacies of our embrace of nuclear weapons and technologies.
Dispatches from the South China Sea Navigating to Common Ground
A book by James Borton on overfishing, illegal and unregulated fishing, coral reef destruction and reclamations, and, eventually, on ways of preserving our oceans.
Traces of the Animal Past: Methodological Challenges in Animal History
Full volume of Traces of the Animal Past: Methodological Challenges in Animal History edited by Jennifer Bonnel and Sean Kheraj.
The Age of the Soybean: An Environmental History of Soy during the Great Acceleration
An edited volume on the soybean, one of the world’s most important commodities.
Hydroelektrische Projektionen: Eine Emotionsgeschichte der Wasserkraft im Industriefilm
Excerpt from RCC alumnus Fabian Zimmer’s book Hydroelektrische Projektionen.