landscapes

New Zealand’s literature (1890–1925) offers a wealth of information for the environmental historian that is unparalleled by most other countries.

The author explores some of the expressions of the changes in human perceptions of, and responses to, a group of plants with which people have had to contend for places, and the deeper cultural significances of the contest itself. New Zealand’s discrete landscape and the settler society is the context in which Clayton further develops his analysis.

The two landscapes, Nevada Test Site and Yosemite National Park, have, on the surface, very little in common. However, in recent years, a number of nuclear and post-nuclear landscapes have been praised for attracting rare species of flora and fauna…

This article examines the alienation of water users in the lower Colorado River Basin from the river and its delta during the twentieth century.

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.

Thomas Pringle (1789–1834) was perhaps the most famous of the British settlers who landed at the Cape in 1820…

Stapledon’s suspicions of inductive science and reductionist economics, his concern with holism, ‘spiritual values’ and ‘the nature of things’ and his emphasis upon breadth of vision and the cultivation of the imagination was in stark contrast to many scientists of the day.

Reviews of histories of: the forest landscape of Molise in Italy; Scottish woodland; the Columbia River, and of the Thames Embankment in Victorian London.

Matagne examines French conservation policies in the 19th century with reference to three important issues: i) the protection of landscapes; ii) the protection of animal and vegetable species; and iii) nature conservation in the colonies.

G. P. Marsh wrote his monumental Man and Nature (1864) almost entirely in Italy, where he drew heavily from Italian insights and Italian landscapes.