Periodicals

A nuanced treatment of the relation between peasant protests and environment with reference to a broad range of examples from Mediterranean Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa.

Using case studies from Austria and Kansas, this paper compares the socioecological structures of the agricultural communities immigrants left to those that they found and created on the other side of the Atlantic.

This fourth issue continues the journal’s exploration of the scientific paradigms of global environmental history.

Thomas R. Dunlap discusses the development of birding and its long-term public influence in the USA through the history of field guides.

Stefania Barca presents an environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, through the lens of the Liri River Valley.

Covers the content of this issue’s analysis of modern environmental systems, and how these systems have changed over time.

An interview with Joachim Radkau, professor of history at the University of Bielefeld in Germany and author of Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment..

A review of the revised English translation, published 2008, of the prize-winning Spanish original De bosque a sabana: azúcar, deforestación y medio ambiente en Cuba, 1492–1926 (2004).

The book reviewed deals with an animal, which, along with the bear, has been at the core of environmental conflicts in France since its reappearance around 1992.

This study examines the debates on, and processes of, land reform in Zimbabwe during the independence era, exploring the social, economic, and political contexts of perceptions of land redistribution and management.