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"Seizing The Day: Perrine Moncrieff and Nature Conservation in New Zealand"
This study examines environmental work by the ornithologist and conservationist Perrine Moncrieff between 1920 and 1980.
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"The Re-Creation of Bottle Lake: From Site of Discard to Environmental Playground?"
In order to understand the workings of ecological imperialism at the local level, this essay traces the haphazard environmental history of an area of land at the north-eastern border of Christchurch.
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“‘Wilderness to Orchard’: The Export Apple Industry in Nelson, New Zealand 1908–1940”
The orchard is suggestive of the ways in which commercial apple growing was represented as an idealised lifestyle linking rural economy and nature…
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"New Zealand Landscape and Literature, 1890–1925"
New Zealand’s literature (1890–1925) offers a wealth of information for the environmental historian that is unparalleled by most other countries.
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"New Zealand Environmental History: A Question of Attitudes"
The author’s own research into the early years of European settlement plots an evolving cultural engagement with the indigenous environment, and in particular with forest or ‘bush,’ which ran parallel with its extensive replacement by agroecosystems.
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"Plant Transfers in Historical Perspective: A Review Article"
This paper explores some routes into the history of plant transfers, especially during the period of European imperialism.
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"Facing the Forest: European Travellers Crossing the Mucuri River Valley, Brazil, in the Nineteenth Century"
From travellers’ accounts, Duarte discusses the conditions of exploration, and some aspects of the historical changes that took place in the territory.
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"Empirical Knowledge, Scientific Authority, and Native Development: The Controversy over Sugar/Rice Ecology in the Netherlands East Indies, 1905–1914"
Controversy over the claim that sugar depleted the soil and stunted subsequent rice crops reached a stalemate when both sugar scientists and their critics were accused of selectively choosing evidence according to political bias…
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"Lesniki and Leskhozy: Life and Work in Russia's Northern Forests"
This paper examines the history of forestry in the Russian North through a study area in the North Urals.
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"'On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic' in Environmental History"
This paper examines the reception of Marsh’s ideas in New Zealand in the 1870s along with the ideas of the largely-forgotten Titus Smith about human impacts upon the vegetation of Nova Scotia in the nineteenth century, prompting reflection upon the relevance of tales of environmental understanding from two colonial realms for the practice of environmental history in the twenty-first century.