Dam Scientists: The Limits of Scientific Knowledge and Environmentalism

INTRODUCTION
Science and Hydropolitics: An Ambivalent Relationship Sara Lorenzini

SNAPSHOTS
Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae and the Dismal History of the Black Swamp Eliot Fackler

Crisis Materials and Local Resilience: Environmental Determinants of Building Practices in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Rural Poland Robert Piotrowski

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Negotiating Resettlements: How Social Science Experts Shaped Dam Construction and the Displacement of Alpine Communities in Switzerland and Italy, 1940–1970 Sebastian De Pretto

Communist Bulgaria and the Exploitation of Hydropower on the Lower Danube (1957–1989): An Enviro-Technical Approach Francesco Magno

The Quest for Environmental Knowledge: Biologists, Dam-Building and Environmentalism in the Brazilian Amazon Frederik Schulze

Science-Based ‘Greenwashing’ of Large Dams in Ethiopia: The Case of the Gibe III Dam Sara De Simone

Interpreting Rivers for Dams: Engineering Education, Economisation, Knowledge Creation and Indian Hydro-Engineers 1860–1960 Ramya Swayamprakash

The Contradictions of Dam Building in the People’s Republic of China Arunabh Ghosh, Covell Meyskens

BOOK REVIEWS
Giulio Boccaletti, Water: A Biography Marianne Kjellén

Richard Bussmann, The Archaeology of Pharaonic Egypt: Society and Culture, 2700–1700 BC Zhilin Li, Ying Wang

Mahua Sarkar, The Gasping City: An Environmental History of Calcutta, 1817–1913 Suvanakar Dey

SOCIETY PAGES
ESEH Notepad – The ESEH–Gale Non-Residential Fellowship in Digital Environmental History Wilko Graf Von Hardenberg

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

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