Roundtable Review of Toxic Bodies by Nancy Langston
In Toxic Bodies Langston tells us of the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES), a hormone disruptor that doctors prescribed to pregnant women for decades in the mid-twentieth century.
In Toxic Bodies Langston tells us of the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES), a hormone disruptor that doctors prescribed to pregnant women for decades in the mid-twentieth century.
The documentary reveals how water can become a catalyst for explosive community resistance to globalization.
An investigation into the introduction of European diseases to native peoples on the Pacific Northwest coast (North America).
Colin Beavan’s year-long attempt to live ‘off the grid’ in the heart of New York City brings the environment, and his relationships, to the forefront.
Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.
An interview with Joachim Radkau, professor of history at the University of Bielefeld in Germany and author of Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment..
This collection of essays examines the history of human interaction with forest and marine ecosystems in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, where many of the contributors have conducted fieldwork.
Using case studies from Austria and Kansas, this paper compares the socioecological structures of the agricultural communities immigrants left to those that they found and created on the other side of the Atlantic.
A collection of essays that explore the “paper landscapes” of the colonial literature and archives in search of the real environmental history of Indonesia.
Comeback Cities provides a readable presentation of certain key aspects of the field of urban studies, such as the various waves of troubles that hit many American cities in the twentieth century and the broken windows theory.