Exhibition chapter
Moving On | American Land Rush
Chapter 4 of American Land Rush, a virtual exhibition by Sara Gregg.
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Multimedia | journal article
“Challenging the Environmental History of the Cerrado: Science, Biodiversity and Politics on the Brazilian Agricultural Frontier”
This article presents an overview of the environmental history of the Brazilian Cerrado, its environmental characteristics and the processes related to the historical change in the landscapes of this endangered ecosystem.
Multimedia | podcast
Interview with Kristin Poling, author of Germany's Urban Frontiers: Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Kristin Poling is interviewed on her recent book, Germany’s Urban Frontiers: Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City.
Arcadia
Golden Grains: Environmental Implications of Mennonite Migration to Kansas in the Late Nineteenth Century
The Mennonite migrations from Ukraine to Kansas in 1874 transformed traditional tallgrass prairie for grain production.
Arcadia
Axes on the Ground: Wolves and Women on the North American Frontier
How did gendered evolutions of European lupine folklore impact settler conceptions of boundaries between the human and nonhuman?
Multimedia | book, full-text
Frontier Thinking and Human–Nature Relations: We Were Never Western
Combining historical, social and regulative analysis, this book builds a critique of “frontier thinking” as it continues to form our assumptions about social and environmental organisation.