In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, William Carruthers is interviewed on his recent book, Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology.
Cushing uses the voyage of the First Fleet to illustrate the shift in hierarchies and power relations between humans and animals.
This article focuses on perceptions and memories of the “Groundnut Scheme”, an enacted peanut monoculture in East Africa and one of the largest colonial agricultural development initiatives in history, trying in particular to trace the different functions that were assigned to the social and ecological landscape of Tanganyika.
This paper considers Cherrapunji, a sleep hilltop village in the remote northeastern frontier of India discovered through the colonial search for a cool place for European sensibilities.
A reflection on the challenges of doing environmental history research in the diverse region of the Himalayas.
For a long time, the British Empire saw the climate and the regional political strongholds of northeast India as insuperable obstacles to conquest.
After traders from East India Company discovered Assam’s wild tea plants in the early decades of the nineteenth century, the commodification of this resource in the eastern border of Bengal radically transformed the ecological condition of the region.
