Environment and History
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EH Vol.31 (3), August 2025

EDITORIAL
Editorial David Moon, Leona Watson, Tyson Luneau
SNAPSHOTS
The Plastic Bag: From a Mundane Swedish Innovation to the World’s Oceans Nils Johansson
Onondaga Lake in New York State: Seventeenth Century Origins of a Superfund Site Holly A. Rine
RESEARCH ARTICLES
A British Military Engineer, the Ganga and the Spectre of Control in Colonial Northern India (1839–1854) Rahul Ranjan
Invisible Mountains? The Eastern and Southern Carpathians and their Environmental History (Fourteenth–Seventeenth Centuries) Kata Tóth
‘The Beauty of Our Hills Is Being Sacrificed’: Afforestation, Forestry and Colonial Environmentalism in British Hong Kong Vincent Ho, Novem Tsz Wing Ho
Science, Law and the Raj: Cultural Fields of Fish(y) Fact Aarthi Sridhar
Equality Drowned in Thermal Water – Environmental Racism and Antisemitism in the Context of Tourism-Centred Modernisation in Interwar North-East Hungary Gergely Kunt
BOOK REVIEWS
Richard C. Hoffmann, The Catch: An Environmental History of European Fisheries Daria Ageeva
Marcy Norton, The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 Jim van der Meulen
Olive Heffernan, The High Seas: Greed, Power and the Battle for the Unclaimed Ocean and Corey Ross, Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World Ailish Lalor
SOCIETY PAGES
ESEH Notepad – A Community in Exchange: A Note from The President Wilko Graf Von Hardenberg
EH Vol.31 (2), February 2025

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
EH Vol.31 (1), February 2025

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
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