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EH Vol.30 (4), October 2024

30th Anniversary Issue

EDITORIAL
Editorial: 30th Anniversary Edition Sarah Johnson, David Moon, Leona Skelton

SNAPSHOTS
Water as the ‘Other’: Crafting Land–Water Binary in Colonial South Asia Nabaparna Ghosh

‘The Light of Day Was Our Comrade’: Ecologies of Forced Displacement and the Challenge of Unfamiliar Environments in Cold-War Greece Dimitrios Bormpoudakis

SPECIALLY COMMISSIONED ARTICLES
Ukrainian Waste for the Soviet Economy: Shaping the National Narrative Tetiana Perga

‘Dry Weather’ and the Environmental History of the Early Modern Caribbean Mary Draper

Caribbean Environmental History through Banana Disease Matthew R. Plishka

‘Sanitary Purposes’: Engineering, Landfills, and Health During the Construction of the Panama Canal Francisco Javier Bonilla

Without Bounds: Colonialism and Disaster in St Vincent and the US Virgin Islands Jessica S. Samuel, Lauren Prince

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Living With Water and Flood in Medieval and Early Modern Hull Bryony McDonagh, Hannah Worthen, Stewart Mottram, Stormm Buxton-Hill

Shanghai and the Smoke Fiend: Obstacles to the Control of Urban Smoke, 1869–1943 Xiaojie Li, David S. Jones

No Body, No Crime? Vicariously Imagining Africa’s Arsenic Century: Bovines, Arsenic Poisoning and Multi-Species Toxic Histories in Southern Rhodesia (Colonial Zimbabwe), 1900–1940s Elijah Doro

Ignorance and Environmental History: The Opening of an Arctic Offshore Oil Frontier, 1968–1976 Andrew Stuhl

CODA
Interdisciplinary Working and Environmental History Leona J. Watson

BOOK REVIEWS
Elijah Doro, Plunder for Profit: A Socio-environmental History of Tobacco Farming in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe Giovanni Tonolo

John Dargavel, Anthropocene Days John Mcneill

Eleonor Marcussen, Acts of Aid: Politics of Relief and Reconstruction in the 1934 Bihar-Nepal Earthquake Vipul Singh

SOCIETY PAGES
Interview with Poul Holm Poul Holm, Katja Bruisch, Daniele Valisena, Chloé Vlassopoulos, Alexey Sobisevich, Sandra Swart, Marianna Dudley, Jonatan Palmblad

EH Vol.30 (3), August 2024

EDITORIAL
Editorial David Moon, Leona Skelton

SNAPSHOTS
The Extra-Planetary Mine: Space Mining as Continuity Thomas Cheney

Monumental Trees, or the Phenomenological Guardians of the Landscape Tomasz Związek

Natural Catastrophe as a Consequence of Forced Displacement: Reviewing the Handlová Landslide From a Cultural-Historical Perspective Michal Korhel

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Empire, Nature and Agrarian World: A History of Rhino Preservation in the Kaziranga Game Reserve, India (1902–1938) Biswajit Sarmah

From Devil-Fish to Friendly Whale? Encountering Gray Whales on The California Coast Anna Guasco

From a Grassland to a Bush Capital: A Historic Review of Canberra’s Green Infrastructure Development Fahimeh Mofrad, Maria Ignatieva

Ecology in Transition: Fernando González Bernáldez, Scientific Modernisation and Environmental Advocacy in Late Francoist Spain, 1960–1980 Santos Casado

An Exotic Tree in a Foreign Country: A Cultural Biography of the Lodgepole Pine in Sweden Erland Mårald, Jimmy Jönsson, Örjan Kardell, Jörgen Sjögren, Anna Tunlid

BOOK REVIEWS
Ian M. Miller, Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China Shaoming Duan

Robert R. Crifasi, Western Water A to Z: The History, Nature, and Culture of a Vanishing Resource Karl Nycklemoe

A. Çolak, S. Kirka and I.D. Rotherham (eds), Ancient Woods, Trees and Forests Pietro Piana

Ranjan Chakrabarti, Climate Calamity and the Wild – An Environmental History of the Bengal Delta, c. 1737–1947 Ian Rotherham

INTERVIEW
ESEH Notepad – Our Common Past: When it All Started… Chloé Vlassopoulos, Verena Winiwarter