geography

In this book, Laura Dassow Walls describes how the explorer Alexander von Humboldt developed his unitary worldview.

An interdisciplinary explanation of why Europeans and people of European descent have come to control so much of the world’s wealth.

Stephen Bell, Carson Fellow from June to August 2011, talks about his research concerning the the transformation of land use in Brazil.

Shane McCorristine, a Carson fellow from June to September 2010, talks about how the arctic regions were understood in the nineteenth century.

This paper argues that far from having been an empty space, much of the area currently devoted to tourism once played an important role within global markets, especially through the production of dyewoods, chicle (the original raw material for chewing gum), and other natural resources.

This review presents European scholarship in environmental history by highlighting a limited number of works which have proved significant in their respective countries. The decade from 1994–2004 saw the development of a new scholarly network for environmental history in Europe.

The authors propose and discuss four ‘intersections’ that have potential as loci of interdisciplinary engagement: mutual understanding; spatial scale and locale; time and change; and the environment and agency.

As the millennium approaches it seems that environmental historians are increasingly drawn to the task of writing world history…

The study of history in a sense that can be called ‘environmental’ is a discipline yet to be created in Latin America. This has become an obstacle that must be overcome if we are to understand better the serious social and environmental deterioration of the region.