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The German Greenland Expedition 1930–1931 | Wegener Diaries
This is a selection of the original diary entries of German explorer Alfred Wegener’s last Greenland expedition in 1930 and is part of the virtual exhibition “The Wegener Diaries - Scientific Expeditions into the Eternal Ice” authored by historian Christian Kehrt.
Review of Situating Environmental History, edited by Ranjan Chakrabarti
Debojyoti Das’s review of an environmental history reader containing essays by Karl Jacoby, Alok Kumar Ghosh, Arun Bandopadhyay, Archana Prasad, Vinita Damodaran, Ritajyoti Bandhopadhyay, Kaushik Roy, Arabinda Samanta, Amal Das, Sahara Ahmed, Jagdish N. Sinha, Sumit Guha, Rita Pemberton, Lawrence G. Gundersen, and Tridib Chakraborty.
Review of Global Environmental History: 10,000 BC to AD 2000 by Ian Gordon Simmons
Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.
"Local People and the Global Tiger: An Environmental History of the Sundarbans"
Investigates the significance of the Sundarbans as a natural reserve or buffer area (a resource of yet unknown magnitude) in pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial South Asia.