Environment and History 2020

Environment and History, Volume 26, Number 3, August 2020

 

• Editorial – Jones, Karen R.
• Ventilation for the Nation: Fresh Air, Sunshine, and the Warfare on Germs in China’s National Quest for Hygienic Modernity, 1849-1949 – Svarverud, Rune
• A Tale of Two Yorkshire Villages: The Local Environmental Impact of British Reservoir Development, c.1866-1966 – McTominey, Andrew
• Nature Mistaken: Resource-Making, Emotions and the Transformation of Peatlands in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union – Bruisch, Katja
• Sheep, Scab Mites, and Society: The Process and Politics of Veterinary Knowledge in Lesotho, Southern Africa, c. 1900-1933 – Conz, Christopher R.
• Conserving Wildlife Resources in Zimbabwe: Reflections on Chirinda Forest, 1920s-1979 – Ndumeya, Noel
• Wolfgang Behringer, Tambora and the Year without a Summer – How a Volcano Plunged the World into Crisis – Chester, David
• Debjani Bhattacharya, Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta. The Making of Calcutta – Robb, Peter
• Gabriella Corona, A Short Environmental History of Italy. Variety and Vulnerability – de Majo, Claudio
• Society Pages: ESEH Notepad

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Environment and History, Volume 26, Number 2, May 2020

 

• Editorial – Jones, Karen R.
• Desert Dreams of Drinking the Sea, Consumed by the Cold War: Transnational Flows of Desalination and Energy from the Pacific to the Persian Gulf – Low, Michael Christopher
• Water, Sand, Molluscs: Imperial Infrastructures, the Age of Hydrology, and German Colonialism in Swakopmund, Southwest Africa, 1884-1915 – Kalb, Martin
• The Challenge of Oral History to Environmental History – Williams, Brian; Riley, Mark
• ‘Living in a State of Filth and Indifference to … Their Health’: Weather, Public Health and Urban Governance in Colonial George Town, Penang – Williamson, Fiona; Proust, Katrina
• Cotton and Salt: Swedish Colonial Aspirations and the Transformation of Saint Barthélemy in the Eighteenth Century – Weiss, Holger; Hollsten, Laura; Norrgård, Stefan
• Deborah R. Coen, Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale – Kalb, Martin
• Jeff Schauer, Wildlife between Empire and Nation in Twentieth-Century Africa – Conz, Christopher
• Christopher Abram, Evergreen Ash: Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth and Literature – Oslund, Karen
• Society Pages: ESEH Notepad

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Environment and History, Volume 26, Number 1, February 2020

Special Issue: Disasters and the Making of Asian History

 

• Editorial: Disasters and the Making of Asian History – Courtney, Chris; Williamson, Fiona
• Under the Volcano: Mount Mayon and Co-Volcanic Societies in the Philippines – Bankoff, Greg
• Event, Process and Pulse: Resituating Floods in Environmental Histories of South Asia – D’Souza, Rohan
• Earthquakes and the Environmental Transformation of a Floodplain Landscape: The Brahmaputra Valley and the Earthquakes of 1897 and 1950 – Saikia, Arupjyoti
• The Fight Against Heaven-Sent Insects: Dealing with Locust Plagues in the Emirate of Bukhara – Dağyeli, Jeanine Elif
• From Bodhisattva Earth to Man-Made Meat Essence: Famine Foods in Late Qing, Nationalist and Maoist China – Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn Jean
• Sarah M. Hamilton, Cultivating Nature: The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape – Paniagua, Angel
• Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta and Hannah Appel (eds), The Promise of Infrastructure – Spada, Marco
• Joshua Macfadyen, Flax Americana: A History of the Fibre and Oil that Covered a Continent – Hahn, Barbara
• Society Pages: ESEH Notepad