Studying the contents of each work shows which authors were merely copying the Greek theory of humours and miasma, and which made genuine contributions to the field.
This environmental history of ancient civilizations seeks to demonstrate that environmental degradation is not exclusively a problem of the modern world.
The film discusses how biodynamic agricultural methods transformed an area of desert 60 kilometers northeast of Cairo, and a leading agro-industrial corporation was founded.
Interview with the author of one of the first environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire.
Disease, hunger, war, and religion have shaped human existence over many centuries. This volume of RCC Perspectives presents exciting syntheses between research in the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and history.
A cultural and historical analysis of the recent past of the Nile Valley shows how interpretations and perceptions of territory, space, and nature are not necessarily indisputably “true” and definitive principles. On the contrary, they are constructed and, therefore, changeable.
In the study, Albert Zink and his group identify and interpret nuclear DNA in a number of different Egyptian royal mummies and put the existing hypotheses about their identities to the test.
This film explores the Occupy protests and similar activist movements and what their vision for the world is.
In “The Climate of History: Four Theses,” Dipesh Chakrabarty examined the idea of the Anthropocene—the dawn of a new geological period dominated by human activities—in the context of history and philosophy, raising fundamental questions about how we think historically in an era when human and geological timescales are colliding.This volume of RCC Perspectives offers critiques of these “Four Theses” by scholars of environmental history, political philosophy, religious studies, literary criticism, environmental planning, geography, law, biology, and geology.
The focus on human-environment relations from the perspective of climate change alone is too narrow. Often, society experiences climate change through political and technical decisions, rather than as an environmental crisis.
