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Mountain, Militarized: North Korea, Nuclear Tests, and Nature
This essay examines North Korea’s 2017 nuclear test as an example of how the Korean peninsula’s landscapes became militarized.
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Defending the Shoreline: From Cannon to Beach Nourishment in Gulf Islands National Seashore
Previously military fortifications, the barrier islands along the northern Gulf Coast of the United States today protect against climate change.
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Resistance in the Midst of the Anthropocene: The Rise and Fall of Artificial Earthquakes at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, 1962–1966
This article explores the materialization of the Anthropocene at the local level.
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Ice and Snow in the Cold War: Histories of Extreme Climatic Environments
Through histories of extremely cold environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War historiography.
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West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands
Astrid M. Eckert’s West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of Cold War Germany and the German reunification process from the spatial perspective of the West German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945.
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StadtAcker | Ecopolis München 2019
StadtAcker: Munich’s most valuable oasis? An example of how the dream of an urban garden can become a reality is the StadtAcker. Assisted by the city administration, citizens created a green oasis.
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Civilizing Nature with the Spade and the Rifle: The Engineer Battalion in the Araucanía Region, Chile (1877–1891)
In the nineteenth century, the Chilean army developed a strategy to conquer the environment.
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From Nature to Infrastructure: Vallisaari Island in the Helsinki Archipelago
A centuries-old military island in the Helsinki archipelago is shaped by competing forces of abandonment and infrastructural development.
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Interview with Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver, authors of An Environmental History of the Civil War
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver are interviewed on their new book, An Environmental History of the Civil War.
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Rat Tech: Transforming Rodents into Technology in Tanzania
In Tanzania, those who consider rats technology envision nature as being transformed through social practices that rework environmental histories.