Content Index

Freytag, Nils, “Deutsche Umweltgeschichte—Umweltgeschichte in Deutschland. Erträge und Perspektiven” [German environmental history—environmental history in Germany. Achievements and perspectives]

The German historian Nils Freytag traces the development of environmental history in Germany, paying special attention to forests and hunting, urban environments, and links to cultural history.

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.

"The Introduction of Historical and Cultural Values in the Sustainable Management of European Forests"

A summary of a document produced for the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe.

At Home in Nature: Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America

A study of homesteading in America from the late nineteenth century to the present.

Restoring Cursed Earth: Appraising Environmental Policy Reforms in Eastern Europe and Russia

Highland Sanctuary: Environmental History in Tanzania's Usambara Mountains

Highland Sanctuary unravels the complex interactions among agriculture, herding, forestry, the colonial state, and the landscape in the Usambara mountains of Tanzania.

Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America

Anderson argues that livestock were a central factor in the cultural clash between colonists and Indians as well as a driving force in the expansion west.

Sacred Cow, Mad Cow: A History of Food Fears

The Land We Share: Private Property and the Common Good

Is private ownership an inviolate right that individuals can wield as they see fit?

Conservation in the Progressive Era: Classic Texts

The documents collected in the book reveal the various and sometimes conflicting uses of the term “conservation” and the contested nature of the reforms it described.