“Environmental History, Traditional Populations, and Paleo-Territories in the Brazilian Atlantic Coastal Forest”
This article examines the long-term anthropogenic factors that have affected the Atlantic Coastal Forest.
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"Isthmus in the World: Elements for an Environmental History of Panama"
Castro wishes to encourage a new reading of the best-known sources and authors associated with this issue, as well as the adoption of a new perspective on the deep origins of the environmental problems that the country faces today.
Atlantropa – Endless Energy from the Mediterranean Sea
Arcadia, 2012, no. 9
Invention of the Internal Combustion Engine
Nikolaus Otto and Rudolf Diesel invent the internal combustion engine.
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A History of Environmental Politics Since 1945
An overview of environmental affairs in the United States, from the 1940s onward.
Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783–1933
Traces the changing relationships between the fish resources and the people of the Great Lakes region.
Smelter Smoke in North America: The Politics of Transborder Pollution
Chronicles how industry developed a continental perspective in a shared regional space, the mineralized West, and how successful efforts of governments and citizens to protect the environment evolved.
The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective
A collection of essays exploring the production and disposal of wastes in the American city since 1850.
Disaster Ahead: How Danube Floods Created Telegraph Networks
Arcadia, 2012, no. 7
Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World
For nearly a century, we have relied increasingly on science and technology to harness natural forces, but at what environmental and social cost?