Environment and History
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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
EH Vol.30 (2), May 2024
EDITORIAL
Editorial David Moon, Leona Skelton
SNAPSHOTS
Mimicking Lyrebirds in Multispecies History Ruby Ekkel
Burned Oil Rigs and Cut Woods: The Environmental Dimension of the First World War on the Eastern Front Iaroslav Golubinov
‘The Accommodative Apparatus’: Drawing the Life of Sex Work on the Eroding Coast of Sundarbans Amrita Dasgupta
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Race, Environment, and Crisis: Hurricane Camille and the Politics of Southern Segregation Atte Arffman, Antero Holmila
How Bogs Made for Borderlands: The Eastern Low Countries, c. 670 – c. 1900 ce Maurice Paulissen, Roy Van Beek, Edward H. Huijbens
Wild Smoke: Managing Forest Pollution in Northern British Columbia since 1950 Mica Jorgenson
‘Growing a World Wonder’: The Great Green Wall and the History of Environmental Decline in the Sahel, 1450–2022 John Cropper
BOOK REVIEWS
David Moon, The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s Alina Bykova
Royden Loewen, Mennonite Farmers: A Global History of Place and Sustainability Benjamin W. Goossen
Joy L. K. Pachuau and Willem van Schendel, Entangled Lives: Human-Animal-Plant Histories of the Eastern Himalayan Triangle Harrison Croft
SHORT COMMUNICATION
ESEH Notepad – Reflections: Initiatives of the Third ESEH NEXTGATe Team (2021–2023) and Plans for the Future Noémi Ujházy, Elizabeth Hameeteman, Goran Đurđević, Tanja Riekkinen, Sevgi Mutlu Sirakova, Monique Palma, Monica Vasile
EH Vol.30 (1), February 2024
EDITORIAL
Editorial David Moon, Leona Skelton
SNAPSHOTS
Haunted Vegetation: Formerly German Orchards in Polish Pomerania Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska
Hujog: The Disaster Years in Pre- and Post-1971 Chilmari, Bangladesh Saad Quaseem
Environment and Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Northeast Portugal (Eighteenth–Nineteenth Centuries) Pedro Mota Tavares
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Working Like a Dog: Canine Labour, Technological Unemployment, and Extinction in Industrialising England Neil Humphrey
Ottoman Lakes and Fluid Landscapes: Environing, Wetlands and Conservation in the Marmara Lake Basin, Circa 1550–1900 Semih Çelik, Christina Luke, Christopher H. Roosevelt
The Birth of Hirudiculture: Parisian Medicine, Leech Farming and the Transformation of Marshland in Nineteenth-Century France Robert G.W. Kirk, Neil Pemberton, Thibaut Serviant-Fine
From Reintroduction to Rewilding: Autonomy, Agency and the Messy Liberation of the European Bison Monica Vasile
The Many Pollutant Identities of Carbon Dioxide: Global Climate Monitoring and Air Pollution Research in New Zealand, 1968–1975 R. Ashton Macfarlane
BOOK REVIEWS
Jennifer Bonnell and Sean Kheraj (eds), Traces of the Animal Past: Methodological Challenges in Animal History Harrison Croft
Martin V. Melosi, Water in North American Environmental History J.R. McNeill
SHORT COMMUNICATION
ESEH Notepad Christian Rohr