colonialism

A cultural history of bees and beekeeping in the United States.

This book presents the socio-environmental history of black people around Kuruman, on the edge of the Kalahari in South Africa.

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.

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

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.

A collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.

Anthony Carrigan, Carson Fellow from January to June 2012, talks about his research concerning social disasters such as wars and ongoing chronic poverty that can develop from colonization.

A collection of essays that explore the “paper landscapes” of the colonial literature and archives in search of the real environmental history of Indonesia.

A glowing review of a synthesis of some of the key themes in the study of environmental history as it relates to Latin America.

A closer examination of India’s monetary history reveals that there exist many similarities between the effects of structural adjustment programs and those of monetary disturbances in the last quarter of the nineteenth century due to the depreciation of the rupee.