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A biography of American scientist and popular ecology writer, Rachel Carson.

This book links the environmental movement that emerged in the United States during the 1960s to earlier progressive movements and considers the importance of race, ethnicity, class, and gender issues for the history and evolution of environmentalism.

Gijs Mom, Carson fellow from October 2009 to September 2010, founder of the European Center for Mobility Documentation (ECMD) and co-founder the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M), talks about “Space, Sound, Smog and the Senses: Environmental Mobility History in the Making.”

This paper attempts to assess the extent of domestic livestock loss occasioned by natural hazard especially flood as well as the impact their deaths had on human communities.

The hunting-and-collecting mania of sportsmen from north-western Europe and the eastern United States is explored by focusing on the many hunting narratives that recount trips to the Canadian part of the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Shore during the Age of Empire (1875–1914).

With particular reference to Gatty’s British Sea-Weeds and Eliot’s ‘Recollections of Ilfracombe’, this article takes an ecocritical approach to popular writings about seaweed, thus illustrating the broader perception of the natural world in mid-Victorian literature.

This study examines environmental work by the ornithologist and conservationist Perrine Moncrieff between 1920 and 1980.

The authors identify two distinct forms of masculinity, Australian and Cuban, and proceed to show how men and their rhetoric are overtaken, then transformed, by political and environmental developments not of their choosing.

This paper discusses the historical identity of the Indian Forest Service, the elite environmental organisation which controlled and managed nearly a third of India during the late nineteenth century.

While gender-blindness has characterised much writing on colonial environmental history, women have assumed center-stage in the historical narratives produced by two linked contemporary policy discourses: ecofeminism, and ‘women, environment and development.’