Cushing uses the voyage of the First Fleet to illustrate the shift in hierarchies and power relations between humans and animals.
Tom Griffiths argues for the importance of environmental history, and gives us three reasons for the uniqueness of the environmental history of Australia.
Frawley’s essay explores oyster populations and technologies in southern Queensland in the late nineteenth century.
In this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Energy Transitions,” historian Nuno Luís Madureira argues that the study of such transitions itself has gone through changes over the course of history.
Human practices of energy consumption both transform—and are transformed by—social structures. This exhibition—written by historian Nuno Luís Madureira—introduces the concept of “energy transitions,” structural shifts in energy use and their pathways, obstacles, and consequences, challenging the view of “transitions” as the simple replacement of one energy resource by another.
by Nuno Luís Madureira
Life as a Hunt chronicles the history of the Valley Bisa people, their evolving landscapes and knowledge, and the ‘conservation battlefield’ their homeland has become.
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective takes an anthropological approach to Africa’s Upper Guinea Coast. It portrays a historically globalized region which has adapated creatively to major transformations and still remains a major actor within global networks.
