Environment and History (journal)

The idea for this journal began as a result of a conversation between the editor and Professor Ranajit Guha in 1988. “What we need now,” Professor Guha claimed, “is a history of sticks and stones.”

Minstrels (or waits) in the 15th century Port of Sandwich walked the streets at night and woke mariners with information about wind directions…

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 British were not the only foreign rulers to bring ecological catastrophe to India. Large areas of forest had been destroyed under the Moguls in the 17th century…

This paper takes the case of the cinchona tree to examine the rhetoric of colonial science in conjunction with its economic and political functions.

The attempts of Angus Smith and his colleagues to control alkali pollution after 1863 are usually seen as being a success…

This paper addresses one of the most under-researched areas of resource use and management in rural India, that of “wild resources,” and explores the links between ecological change, famine and poverty.

The paper examines the way in which the environment is produced as intellectual capital. It asks about the extent to which the environment can be understood by science and through science.

Until about fifteen centuries ago the interaction of humans with the Southeast Asian rainforest was primarily one of interdependence…

Sophisticated local agricultural and forest management techniques have underlain the creation and maintenance of the main landscape features in Kissidougou Prefecture of Guinea’s forest-savanna transition zone…