This article demonstrates that monks were able to use their religious authority and their control of religious message to support and supplement their temporal powers. The control of water resources was deeply connected to monastic identity and the relationships between monks and the secular world.
This paper examines the interrelations of technology, environment and people by exploring the origin, design and implementation of a dam-building project intended to control water-level fluctuations and enhance the Nett Lake wild rice ecosystem at Bois Forte Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota.
This paper explores how economics, technology, politics and ecology interacted in causing ups and downs in the production of traditional iron making, and its subsequent decline in the early twentieth century.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, projects aimed at improving ship-based commerce by connecting various rivers boomed. One such project was the establishment of an Elbe-Vltava-Danube canal, which, however, was never completed.
Gijs Mom, Carson fellow from October 2009 to September 2010, founder of the European Center for Mobility Documentation (ECMD) and co-founder the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M), talks about “Space, Sound, Smog and the Senses: Environmental Mobility History in the Making.”
For nearly a century, we have relied increasingly on science and technology to harness natural forces, but at what environmental and social cost?
The New River was a canal opened in 1613 to supply London’s growing population with fresh water, which was commercially sold by the New River Company. Its construction and use played an instrumental part in the shift from freely available water that had to be fetched to a commercial service that was laid into people’s homes.
Presents Mesopotamian civilization “from the ground up,” including with reference to a range of climatic and environmental factors.
Portraits of privatization from around the world show how the daily lives of people using what were once considered public resources are affected.
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, massive floods regularly threatened cities and settlements along the Danube River. The introduction of wide-reaching telegraph networks enabled Habsburg authorities in Vienna to protect the most important city of the empire.
