This session aims to revisit the evolution of urban-rural relations in premodern Europe. The key objective is to examine the interdependence between cities and towns and their rural hinterlands and how this relationship shaped environmental, demographic, economic and social dynamics on both sides (cf. Fulkerson and Thomas 2021). In particular, ecological dynamics driven by the urban demand for resources – for example, food, water, and energy – add a new perspective to the existing
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Call for papers and workshop: "Soil degradation and shifting agrarian orders in Central Asia"
Workshop of the 2022 PRIN “Water management and environmental change in Central Asia: politics, society, and transnational connections (1948-2020s)” at the University of Naples L’Orientale.
July 5th 2024, Naples, Italy
Salinization, erosion, and desiccation of
In his recently published study "The Climate of History in a Planetary Age" (2021), Dipesh Chakrabarty examines the relationship between the environment and historiography and addresses the question he previously posed: "Will climate change alter the way history is written?" (as in: Transit. Europäische Revue 41 (2011), 143-163). With regard to anthropogenic, human-induced global warming, this
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Recent Reviews
Pappas, Andrea. Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740-1770. Northern Lights Series. London: Lund Humphries, 2023. Illustrations. 192 pp. $89.99 (cloth), ISBN 9781848226241.
Reviewed by
Vaughn Scribner (University of Central Arkansas)
Published on
H-Environment (April, 2024)
Commissioned by
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Harrison, Christian S.. All the Water the Law Allows: Las Vegas and Colorado River Politics. The Environment in Modern North America Series. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. xv + 249 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 9780806192284.$39.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780806169323.
Reviewed by
Spencer McConkie (University of Oregon)
Published on
H-Environment (April, 2024)
Commissioned by
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Brook, Timothy. The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. 256 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780691250403.
Reviewed by
Ian Miller (St. John's University)
Published on
H-Environment (April, 2024)
Commissioned by
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Sayen, Jamie. Children of the Northern Forest: Wild New England's History from Glaciers to Global Warming. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. xiii + 299 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780300270570.
Reviewed by
James Finley (Texas A&M University - San Antonio)
Published on
H-Environment (April, 2024)
Commissioned by
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
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Recent Roundtable Reviews
Dear Colleagues-
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart's Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment
Author: Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart
Dear Colleagues- Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Jonathan Robins's Oil Palm: A Global History. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Oil Palm: A Global History
Author: Jonathan Robins
Contributors: Erika Rappaport, Bronwen Everill, David Biggs
Editor: Mohamed Gamal-Eldin
Dear Colleagues-
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Lukas Rieppel's Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle
Author: Lukas Rieppel
Contributors: Tim LeCain, Reed Gochberg, Alison Laurence, Elaine Ayers
Editor: Melanie A. Kiechle
Dear Colleagues-
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Charles Halvorson's Valuing Clean Air: The EPA and the Economics of Environmental Protection. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Valuing Clean Air: The EPA and the Economics of Environmental Protection
Author: Charles Halvorson
Contributors: Christine Meisner Rosen, Jackie M. M. Gonzales, Leif Fredrickson