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"Editorial" for Global Environment 3
Covers the content of this issue’s analysis of modern environmental systems, and how these systems have changed over time.
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Encyclopedia article: Arndt, Melanie, "Umweltgeschichte"
An overview, in German, of the discipline of environmental history.
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NIES/SIGTUNA, Stockholm/Uppsala, Sweden
The first in a projected series of video installations that seeks to explore the environmental humanities as a scholarly domain of growing significance.
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Bailes, Kendall E., ed., Environmental History: Critical Issues in Comparative Perspective
This book is a collection of papers from one of the first major US conferences on environmental history, which took place 1–3 January 1982 at the University of California’s Irvine campus, and brought together over 100 scholars active in the field.
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The Kruger National Park: A Social and Political History
Do we owe the world-famous Kruger National Park to the triumph of “good” conservationists over the forces of “evil” commercial exploitation? Environmental historian Jane Carruthers investigates.
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Roundtable Review of In the Field, Among the Feathered by Thomas R. Dunlap
Thomas R. Dunlap discusses the development of birding and its long-term public influence in the USA through the history of field guides.
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Review of An Environmental History of Latin America by Shawn William Miller
A glowing review of a synthesis of some of the key themes in the study of environmental history as it relates to Latin America.
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Boomgaard, Peter, Freek Colombijn, and David Henley, eds., Paper Landscapes: Explorations in the Environmental History of Indonesia
A collection of essays that explore the “paper landscapes” of the colonial literature and archives in search of the real environmental history of Indonesia.
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Living Downstream
The film documents Sandra Steingraber’s travels across North America, during which the ecologist and writer works toward breaking the silence over cancer and its environmental links.
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Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930
A review of a collection of essays on the history and adventure of American exploration with several references to sophisticated analyses of trigonometric surveys, the science of empire building, and natural history exchange networks.