What is a Whale? Cetacean Value at the Bering Strait, 1848–1900
Bathsheba Demuth looks at the value of whales for indigenous peoples around the Bering Strait.
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Whaling at the Margins: Drift Whales, Ainu Laborers, and the Japanese State on the Nineteenth-Century Okhotsk Coast
Noell Wilson details Japanese attempts to integrate modern-day Hokkaido into the Tokugawa political sphere via drift-whale policy.
Interview with Emmanuel Kreike, author of Scorched Earth
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Emmanuel Kreike is interviewed on his new book, Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature.
The Environment and the European Public Sphere: Perceptions, Actors, Policies
Drawing on recent research results from various disciplines, including history, sociology, law and political sciences, this volume addresses the methodological challenge of a European perspective on a transnational subject.
EHL VideoDictionary: War
Richard Tucker on war and environmental history. This is an entry in the KTH EHL VideoDictionary.
The State in the Forest: Contested Commons in the Nineteenth Century Venetian Alps
Excerpt from The State in the Forest: Contested Commons in the Nineteenth Century Venetian Alps.
EHL VideoDictionary: The Brundtland Report
Iris Borowy on the Brundtland Report. This is an entry in the KTH EHL VideoDictionary.
Mining and Environmental Destruction in Minas Gerais: A Historical Comparison
Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 6
Interview with John Soluri and Claudia Leal, editors of A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, John Soluri and Claudia Leal are interviewed on their edited volume, A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America.
L’Elba, ovvero come comprendere un fiume
Sophie Lange incontra il fiume Elba e la storia ambientale dell’Elba da adulta. Muovendosi lungo il corso del fiume, racconta le dispute tra Repubblica Federale di Germania e Repubblica Democratica Tedesca generate dagli alti tassi di inquinamento delle acque.