Perspectives Article
Water as White Coal
The article tells the story of the rise and decline of the significance and visibility of “white coal” and hydroelectricity over the course of the twentieth century.
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Conspicuous Elevations and the High Art of Posing the Right Question
Reflects on how one best selects a research question in environmental history. Three Ps are offered as guidance: personal interests, practical matters, procedural concerns, professional considerations, and public issues.
Perspectives
Crossing Mountains: The Challenges of Doing Environmental History
This issue of RCC Perspectives uses mountains as a common denominator around which to discuss overarching challenges of environmental history: challenges relating not only to mountain landscapes, but also to broader questions of sources, methods, cross-cultural research, project scale, and audience. Each author discusses some of their most intriguing discoveries, resulting in a brief and diverse collection of environmental history snapshots.
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A Symphony of Summits. The Alps from Above
A geography and history of the Alps, filmed exclusively with aerial shots.