Environment and History
Sensing the World: Exploring Sensory Histories of the Environment
INTRODUCTION
Introduction – Sensing the World: Exploring Sensory Histories of the Environment Gabriella M. Petrick, Gerard J. Fitzgerald
SNAPSHOTS
‘This Disagreeable Weed’: Arable Plant Conservation May Benefit from Historical Publication Insights Kelly Hemmings, Paul Rollings
Winston and Churchill: The Journey of a Platypus Gifted to the British Prime Minister in the Middle of the Second World War Harrison Croft
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Echo Worlds and Mole-Thinking: Imagining the Nocturnal Sensorium in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Scientific Investigations Andrew Flack, Alice Would
Winds of Empire: Knowing Imperial Climates in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf South of the United States Elaine Lafay
A Sense of Class: Representations of Embodiment in Cornwall’s Subterranean Environments, ca. 1850–1910 Lena Ferriday
A Sour Disposition: Alcohol and Drinking in The Little Ice Age Gabriella M. Petrick
Practising Cold Weather: English Agricultural Discourse and Memory, 1739–1800 Emma C. Moesswilde
BOOK REVIEWS
Daniel Macfarlane, Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US–Canada Relations Sean Kheraj
Edward Dallam Melillo, Ryan Tucker Jones and James Beattie (eds), Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World Charles Dawson
Milica Prokić and Pavla Simkova (eds), Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands Joana Gaspar De Freitas
SOCIETY PAGES
ESEH Notepad – Reflecting on ‘The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History’: A Conversation with the Editors William san Martín, Mark Carey, Sandra Swart, Emily O’Gorman
EDITORIAL
Editorial David Moon, Leona Watson
SNAPSHOTS
Contextualising Extractive Landscapes for Climate Forecasting Emma L. Verstraete
‘Internationalising’ Nature at the End of Empire: The Rise of Conservation NGOs in Africa and the Roots of the World Heritage Convention Jan-Niklas Kniewel
RESEARCH ARTICLES
The Use of Vegetation Fire in Portugal: Historical Legislative and Normative Analysis E. De Oliveira, A.C. Sequeira, P.M. Fernandes, M.C. Colaço
The Water Origins of Brazil’s Nuclear Energy Infrastructure Jennifer Eaglin
A Lost Macedonian Ecosystem: The Land Reclamation and Politicisation of the Philippi Marshes in Interwar Greece George L. Vlachos
The Making of the Antinuclear Movement in the Bay of Biscay: Similar Movements in Different Contexts Martí Serra Riera
Cosmopolitics and Environmental History: Towards a Multinatural Approach Jahzeel Aguilera Lara, Pedro Urquijo Torres
BOOK REVIEWS
David Fedman, Eleana J. Kim and Albert L. Park (eds), Forces of Nature: New Perspectives on Korean Environments Anne Whitehouse
Richard W. Judd, Democratic Spaces: Land Preservation in New England, 1850–2010 Karl Nycklemoe
Cristina Brito, Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa Matthew Plishka
SOCIETY PAGES
ESEH Notepad – NEXTGATe REPORT BACK Sandra Swart
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
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
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
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
EDITORIAL
Editorial David Moon, Leona Skelton
SNAPSHOTS
Along the Western Margin of Park Am Gleisdreieck, an Urban Hybrid Environment Elena Ferrari
The Emergency Has Already Happened Rebecca Duncan, Eleonor Marcussen, Mike Classon Frangos, Emily Hanscam
Nature and the British Raj: The Paradoxes of Forest Policy in Colonial India Nandini Sree
RESEARCH ARTICLES
‘A Kind of Sensory, Strange Thing to Experience’: Speaking Environmental Disaster in the Sea Empress Project Archive Timothy Cooper
The Various Reasons for Killing Wolves in the Fifteenth-Century Liberty of Bruges Kristiaan Dillen
Sand and the City: On Colonial Development and its Evasive Enemies in Twentieth-Century Palestine Dotan Halevy
Creatures of the Clearings: Deforestation, Grass-Cutting Ants and Multispecies Landscape Change in Postcolonial Brazil Diogo De Carvalho Cabral
Caring for Waterscapes in the Anthropocene: Heritage-making at Budj Bim, Victoria, Australia Sue Jackson
BOOK REVIEWS
Jennifer Keating, On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia Beatrice Penati
Lianne C. Leddy, Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake Jessica Urwin
Jane Hamlett and Julie-Marie Strange, Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life Chris Pearson
COMMENTARY
ESEH Notepad: Introducing the New ESEH Presidential Team Wilko Graf Von Hardenberg, Marianna Dudley, Sandra Swart
EDITORIAL
Editorial David Moon, Leona Skelton
RESEARCH ARTICLES
The Horka Litter Raking Incident: On Foresters and Peasants in Nineteenth-Century Moravia Péter Szabó
Wild Blue: The Post-World War Two Ocean Frontier and its Legacy for Law of the Sea Helen M. Rozwadowski
Building a Puerto Rico ‘Better than the One We Lost’: Hurricane San Felipe II and the Puerto Rican New Deal Alex Standen
A Question of Utter Importance: The Early History of Climate Change and Energy Policy in Sweden, 1974–1983 Kristoffer Ekberg, Martin Hultman
Managing Coastal Sand Drift in the Anthropocene: A Case Study of the Manawatū-Whanganui Dune Field, New Zealand, 1800s–2020s Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Ruwan Sampath, James Beattie, Joana Gaspar De Freitas
BOOK REVIEWS
William Wheeler, Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan’s Aral Sea Region: Sea Changes Sarah Cameron
Sean Nixon, Passions for Birds: Science, Sentiment and Sport Ana Isabel Queiroz
Fei Cheng, Modern Chinese Migration and the Socio-Ecological Transformations in Australia and New Zealand Shaoming Duan
Victor Seow, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia Clarence Hatton-Proulx
COMMENTARY
ESEH Notepad: Reflections on Legacies, Failures, and Successes Marco Armiero
EDITORIAL
Editorial David Moon, Leona Skelton
SNAPSHOTS
Scarcity at Summit: The Arc of Environmental Attitudes at a Panamanian Botanical Garden Henry Jacob
When the Parrot Returns to its Perch: Contestation of Place and Nature in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand Cameron Boyle
RESEARCH ARTICLES
The Making of a Pastureland Biome: American Scientists, Miracle Grasses and the Transformation of the Brazilian Cerrado Claiton Marcio Da Silva, Claudio De Majo
Maize on the Move: The Diffusion of a Tropical Cultivar across Europe Loren Galesi
Toward Socialist Environmentalism? Scientists and Environmental Change in Modern Hungary Viktor Pál
‘It’s Not a Reservoir; It’s Valuable Agricultural Land’: Controlled Use of Water and Deliberate Flooding in Lincolnshire Jane Rowling
A Trickle of Authority: The Arid Conditions of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Xinjiang David Anthony Bello
BOOK REVIEWS
Raf de Bont, Nature’s Diplomats: Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920–1960 Caleb Pennington
Alan D. Roe, Into Russian Nature: Tourism, Environmental Protection, and National Parks in the Twentieth Century Aleksandr Osipov
Max Liboiron, Pollution is Colonialism Karl Nycklemoe
COMMENTARY
ESEH Notepad: The Hellenic Society for Environmental History: A Report from the Board George L. Vlachos, Vaso Seirinidou, George Gassias, Dimitris Aggelis-Dimakis, Giorgos Velegrakis, Salvatore Adorno
EDITORIAL
Editorial David Moon, Leona Skelton
SNAPSHOTS
History, Education of Desire and the Creation of New Energy Worlds Kristoffer Ekberg, Angelica Wågström
Reimagining the Playful, Healthy and Sustainable City Jon Winder
RESEARCH ARTICLES
The Accuracy Trap: The Values and Meaning of Algorithmic Mapping, from Mineral Extraction to Climate Change William Rankin
The Great Chichimeca Landscape: Pre-Hispanic Natural Resources Use Adi Estela Lazos Ruíz, Claudio Garibay Orozco
Eserewondo Rozongombe: Livestock as Sites of Power and Resistance in Kaokoveld, Namibia John Heydinger
The Retreat of the Human: Processes of Rewilding after Warfare in Sichuan, China Shang Yuan, Edwin Schmitt
Tactile Taxidermy: The Revival of Animal Skins in the Early Twentieth Century Museum Alice Would
BOOK REVIEWS
Sander Govaerts, Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe: The Meuse Region Nicole Archambeau
Jeremy Zallen, American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865 Barrie Blatchford
COMMENTARY
ESEH Notepad: The Springtime of Environmental History (France, June 2022): A Concluding Experiment Renaud Bécot, Steve Hagimont, Fabien Bartolotti, Corinne Beck, Camille Bésombes, Perrine Camus-Joyet, Marin Coudreau, Laetitia Deudon, Juliette Dumasy, Stéphane Frioux, Romain Grancher, Adeline Grand-Clément, Nicolas Jacob-Rousseau, Francois Jarrige, Claire Milon, Marc Pave, Emilie-Anne Pépy, Solène Rivoal, Marguerite Ronin, Alexis Vrignon, Nessim Znaïen
