Environment and History

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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	22
From Devil-Fish to Friendly Whale? Encountering Gray Whales on The California Coast	9
Echo Worlds and Mole-Thinking: Imagining the Nocturnal Sensorium in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Scientific Investigations	6
Wild Blue: The Post-World War Two Ocean Frontier and its Legacy for Law of the Sea	5
Cristina Brito, Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa	5
Sustainable Academia: The Responsibilities of Academic Historians in a Climate-Impacted World	5
Elephants under Empire: British Colonialism and the Taming of South India’s Forests	5
Voices of Protest Against Industrial Pollution in Hubei, China, During the 1970s and 1980s	5
David Fedman, Eleana J. Kim and Albert L. Park (eds), Forces of Nature: New Perspectives on Korean Environments	4
Editorial	4
‘Growing a World Wonder’: The Great Green Wall and the History of Environmental Decline in the Sahel, 1450–2022	4
Lessons from the Past? A Survey of Finnish Forest Utilisation from the Mid-Eighteenth Century to the Present	4
Jennifer Keating, On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia	3
Remaking Nature at North Korea’s West Sea Barrage	3
Replenishing the Soil: Food, Fertiliser and Soil Science in Occupied Japan (1945-52)	3
Translating Algae into Policy: Introduced Marine Pests and the Emergence of Australian Ballast Water Management, 1970–1990	3
The Great Chichimeca Landscape: Pre-Hispanic Natural Resources Use	3
The Birth of Hirudiculture: Parisian Medicine, Leech Farming and the Transformation of Marshland in Nineteenth-Century France	3
Envisaging Energy Futures: Past and Present	3
How Bogs Made for Borderlands: The Eastern Low Countries, c. 670 – c. 1900 ce	2
Olive Heffernan, The High Seas: Greed, Power and the Battle for the Unclaimed Ocean ; Corey Ross, Liquid Empire: Water and Power i	2
Ranjan Chakrabarti, Climate Calamity and the Wild – An Environmental History of the Bengal Delta, c. 1737–1947	2
Daniel Macfarlane, Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US–Canada Relations	2
The Many Pollutant Identities of Carbon Dioxide: Global Climate Monitoring and Air Pollution Research in New Zealand, 1968–1975	2
Fei Cheng, Modern Chinese Migration and the Socio-Ecological Transformations in Australia and New Zealand	2

A. Çolak, S. Kirka and I.D. Rotherham (eds), Ancient Woods, Trees and Forests	2
Dipesh Chakrabarty, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age	2
Winds of Empire: Knowing Imperial Climates in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf South of the United States	2
Editorial	2
The ESEH-Gale Non-Residential Fellowship in Digital Environmental History	2
Natural Catastrophe as a Consequence of Forced Displacement: Reviewing the Handlová Landslide From a Cultural-Historical Perspective	2
From Reintroduction to Rewilding: Autonomy, Agency and the Messy Liberation of the European Bison	1
Burned Oil Rigs and Cut Woods: The Environmental Dimension of the First World War on the Eastern Front	1
Sean Nixon, Passions for Birds: Science, Sentiment and Sport	1
A Sour Disposition: Alcohol and Drinking in The Little Ice Age	1
From a Grassland to a Bush Capital: A Historic Review of Canberra’s Green Infrastructure Development	1
Environmental Disasters and Place-Based Identity Formation: The Windstorm of 1870 and the 150-Year Czech Relationship with the Bohemian Forest	1
ESEH Notepad: Reflections on Legacies, Failures, and Successes	1
Tools, Troops or Escapees? Cattle Trafficking in the Early Years of the Colony of New South Wales, Australia	1
The Birth of Hirudiculture: Parisian Medicine, Leech Farming and the Transformation of Marshland in Nineteenth-Century France	1
Soybeans, Combines and Agricultural ‘Industrialisation’ in Benton County, Indiana (and well beyond), 1920–1945	1
Jennifer Bonnell and Sean Kheraj (eds), Traces of the Animal Past: Methodological Challenges in Animal History	1
Managing Coastal Sand Drift in the Anthropocene: A Case Study of the Manawatū-Whanganui Dune Field, New Zealand, 1800s-2020s	1
(Re)Making Svalbard’s Marble Island: Marketing the Sublime and Mythologising the More-Than-Human	1
Equality Drowned in Thermal Water – Environmental Racism and Antisemitism in the Context of Tourism-Centred Modernisation in Interwar North-East Hungary	1
Ottoman Lakes and Fluid Landscapes: Environing, Wetlands and Conservation in the Marmara Lake Basin, Circa 1550–1900	1
ESEH Notepad	1
David Moon, Nicholas B. Breyfogle and Alexandra Bekasova (eds), Place and Nature. Essays in Russian Environmental History	1
Interpreting Rivers for Dams: Engineering Education, Economisation, Knowledge Creation and Indian Hydro-Engineers 1860–1960	1
A Trickle of Authority: The Arid Conditions of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Xinjiang	1
Sick of the City: Unpacking the Fat Body Politics of Wilderness	1
The 2025 Bristol-Bern Prize in Public Environmental History	1
‘The Enchanted Dollar Bill’: The Environmental History of Socialist Tourism in Hungary and Yugoslavia	1
Interdisciplinary Working and Environmental History	1
Empire, Nature and Agrarian World: A History of Rhino Preservation in the Kaziranga Game Reserve, India (1902–1938)	1
Forest Conservation and Propaganda in Australia, Canada and New Zealand, 1900–1945	1
The Making of the Antinuclear Movement in the Bay of Biscay: Similar Movements in Different Contexts	1
Eradicating Waste in the Making of the Lower River Murray, Australia, 1880–1940	1
From Devil-Fish to Friendly Whale? Encountering Gray Whales on The California Coast	1
Chris Pearson, Dogopolis: How Dogs and Humans made Modern New York, London and Paris	1
Ana Lucia Camphora, Animals and Society in Brazil from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries	0
Contextualising Extractive Landscapes for Climate Forecasting	0
Elijah Doro, Plunder for Profit: A Socio-environmental History of Tobacco Farming in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe	0
Caring for Waterscapes in the Anthropocene: Heritage-making at Budj Bim, Victoria, Australia	0
Germany’s Feral Rheas: Colonialism, Rewilding, and Deep History in the Schaalsee Biosphere Reserve	0
Water as the ‘Other’: Crafting Land–Water Binary in Colonial South Asia	0
'The Sky in Place of The Nile': Climate, Religious Unrest and Scapegoating in Post-Tridentine Apulia	0
Editorial	0
Invisible Mountains? The Eastern and Southern Carpathians and their Environmental History (Fourteenth–Seventeenth Centuries)	0
The Horka Litter Raking Incident: On Foresters and Peasants in Nineteenth-Century Moravia	0
Sylvan Anxieties and the Making of Landscapes in Early Modern Korea	0
How Bogs Made for Borderlands: The Eastern Low Countries, c. 670 – c. 1900 ce	0
Changing Course: Water Management in the Demer Valley, 1950s–1990s	0
A River Runs through It: Disaster Mobilities of an Elbe Island	0
Coastal Commons in Times of Crisis: The Role of the Traditional Oslofjord Fisheries in Mitigating the 1740–1743 Famine	0

Excremental Flows: Manchester Corporation’s ‘Dung Hill Scheme’ and the Rampton Manor Estate, Nottinghamshire, 1892	0
Slow Development Towards Park Creation: A History of the Black Forest in Post-War Germany	0
Wildlife Corridors: Animal Mobilities and Environmental Infrastructure in the Straits Settlements, c.1870s–1920s	0
‘Dry Weather’ and the Environmental History of the Early Modern Caribbean	0
History, Education of Desire and the Creation of New Energy Worlds	0
The Many Pollutant Identities of Carbon Dioxide: Global Climate Monitoring and Air Pollution Research in New Zealand, 1968–1975	0
Living With Water and Flood in Medieval and Early Modern Hull	0
ESEH Notepad	0
ESEH Notepad	0
Sand and the City: On Colonial Development and its Evasive Enemies in Twentieth-Century Palestine	0
Water, Race and Power: Hydro-Normativity and Urban Water Surveillance in the Cape Colony and Natal, 1830–1899	0
Empire, Nature and Agrarian World: A History of Rhino Preservation in the Kaziranga Game Reserve, India (1902–1938)	0
Jane Hamlett and Julie-Marie Strange, Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life	0
From Zibil to Mezbele : Social Order, Garbage and Officials in Early Modern Ottoman Bursa	0
Editorial	0
Max Liboiron, Pollution is Colonialism	0
Energy, Ecology and Gender in the Middle-Class Home of the Eighteenth-Century Low Countries	0
Jeremy Zallen, American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750-1865	0
Technocratic Environmentalism in Socialist Science Diplomacy: Czechoslovak Geologists and the Evolution of the International Geological Correlation Programme (1972–1989)	0
Zozan Pehlivan, The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century	0
Wearing Wild Birds: Global Skins, Parisian Exhibitions and the Business of Naturalists (1870–1910)	0
Seasonal Migrants and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in a Region of Risk: The Pulse Seine Fisheries in Limfjorden, Denmark, c.1740–1860	0
The Quest for Environmental Knowledge: Biologists, Dam-Building and Environmentalism in the Brazilian Amazon	0
Bad Weather and State-Building: Effective Urban Water Management during a Drought in Colonial Hong Kong, 1963–1964	0
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	0
Wild Smoke: Managing Forest Pollution in Northern British Columbia since 1950	0
Scarcity at Summit: The Arc of Environmental Attitudes at a Panamanian Botanical Garden	0
Alan D. Roe, Into Russian Nature: Tourism, Environmental Protection, and National Parks in the Twentieth Century	0
A Sense of Class: Representations of Embodiment in Cornwall’s Subterranean Environments, ca. 1850–1910	0
A Fishy Tale of the Nuclear Power Plant Never Built in Estonia: An Envirotechnical History of Energy, Fish, Land and Water Resources Planning at Lake Võrtsjärv	0
ESEH Notepad	0
ESEH Notepad: The Hellenic Society for Environmental History: A Report from the Board	0
Sugata Ray, Climate Change and the Art of Devotion: Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550–1850	0
Coping with Climate Extremes: Railways and Pastoralism During Australia's Federation Drought	0
Maize on the Move: The Diffusion of a Tropical Cultivar across Europe	0
Selective Ecologies: Hunting, Game Capital and the Technocratic Management of Wild Fauna in Interwar Greece	0
NEXTGATe REPORT BACK	0
Editorial	0
The Sound of Paris: An Environmental History of Noise in the City of Light	0
Hujog: The Disaster Years in Pre- and Post-1971 Chilmari, Bangladesh	0
Sander Govaerts, Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe: The Meuse Region	0
Winston and Churchill: The Journey of a Platypus Gifted to the British Prime Minister in the Middle of the Second World War	0
Environmental Journalism? Radio Free Europe, Charter 77 and the Making of an Environmental Agenda	0
‘The Light of Day Was Our Comrade’: Ecologies of Forced Displacement and the Challenge of Unfamiliar Environments in Cold-War Greece	0
From a Grassland to a Bush Capital: A Historic Review of Canberra’s Green Infrastructure Development	0
Ignorance and Environmental History: The Opening of an Arctic Offshore Oil Frontier, 1968–1976	0
The Water Origins of Brazil’s Nuclear Energy Infrastructure	0
Women and Rural Property in Medieval Bologna: Preliminary Evidence from Fiscal Sources	0
Working Like a Dog: Canine Labour, Technological Unemployment, and Extinction in Industrialising England	0
A Lost Macedonian Ecosystem: The Land Reclamation and Politicisation of the Philippi Marshes in Interwar Greece	0
Water’s Worth: Reconsidering Deutsche Bank’s 1907 Konya Plain Irrigation Project	0
Environment, Emotion and Early Modernity	0
Editorial: 30 th Anniversary Edition	0
Agency under German Occupation: Conservationist Policy-Making in The Netherlands, 1940–1945	0
Toward Socialist Environmentalism? Scientists and Environmental Change in Modern Hungary	0
An Exotic Tree in a Foreign Country: A Cultural Biography of the Lodgepole Pine in Sweden	0
Negotiating Resettlements: How Social Science Experts Shaped Dam Construction and the Displacement of Alpine Communities in Switzerland and Italy, 1940–1970	0
Political Acceptance of Dangerous Technology: The Example of Leaded Petrol through the Case Study of Switzerland (1921–1970)	0
Monumental Trees, or the Phenomenological Guardians of the Landscape	0
A Community in Exchange: A Note from The President	0
Richard C. Hoffmann, The Catch: An Environmental History of European Fisheries	0
Practising Cold Weather: English Agricultural Discourse and Memory, 1739–1800	0
Reimagining Just Futures with Rachel Carson's Silent Spring	0
The Making of a Pastureland Biome: American Scientists, Miracle Grasses and the Transformation of the Brazilian Cerrado	0
The Fugitive Steppe: Climate and Colonialism on the Kazakh Steppe, 1860–1916	0
Water Against Empire: Thinking From the Bengal Delta	0
William Wheeler, Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan's Aral Sea Region: Sea Changes	0
Caribbean Environmental History through Banana Disease	0
The Various Reasons for Killing Wolves in the Fifteenth-Century Liberty of Bruges	0
Working Like a Dog: Canine Labour, Technological Unemployment, and Extinction in Industrialising England	0
James Boyce, Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens	0
Along the Western Margin of Park Am Gleisdreieck, an Urban Hybrid Environment	0
Ecology in Transition: Fernando González Bernáldez, Scientific Modernisation and Environmental Advocacy in Late Francoist Spain, 1960–1980	0
Lianne C. Leddy, Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake	0
Reimagining the Playful, Healthy and Sustainable City	0
Onondaga Lake in New York State: Seventeenth Century Origins of a Superfund Site	0
Cod, Colonialism, and the Anthropocene	0
Mimicking Lyrebirds in Multispecies History	0
The Long Shadow of the Pines: Vegetation in the Birth, Destruction and Reconstruction of Madrid’s University City (1927–1956)	0
Without Bounds: Colonialism and Disaster in St Vincent and the US Virgin Islands	0

'It's Not a Reservoir; It's Valuable Agricultural Land': Controlled Use of Water and Deliberate Flooding in Lincolnshire	0
Jane Rowling, Environments of Identity – Agricultural Community, Work and Concepts of Local in Yorkshire, 1918–2018	0
Mining, Waste and Environmental Thought on the Central African Copperbelt, 1950-2000	0
A Question of Utter Importance: The Early History of Climate Change and Energy Policy in Sweden, 1974-1983	0
‘The Beauty of Our Hills Is Being Sacrificed’: Afforestation, Forestry and Colonial Environmentalism in British Hong Kong	0
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy	0
Communist Bulgaria and the Exploitation of Hydropower on the Lower Danube (1957–1989): An Enviro-Technical Approach	0
Sensing the World: Exploring Sensory Histories of the Environment	0
Wild Smoke: Managing Forest Pollution in Northern British Columbia since 1950	0
Multifunctional Landscapes in Central Mainland Portugal: The Royal Administration of Almeirim and Sustainable Land Use from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century	0
The Emergency Has Already Happened	0
The Extra-Planetary Mine: Space Mining as Continuity	0
An Exotic Tree in a Foreign Country: A Cultural Biography of the Lodgepole Pine in Sweden	0
From Reintroduction to Rewilding: Autonomy, Agency and the Messy Liberation of the European Bison	0
‘Sanitary Purposes’: Engineering, Landfills, and Health During the Construction of the Panama Canal	0
‘How About the Threatened Timber Famine’: Timber Merchants, Wood Shortage and Global Surveys on Timber Production and Consumption	0
A Lost Macedonian Ecosystem: The Land Reclamation and Politicisation of the Philippi Marshes in Interwar Greece	0
Editorial	0
The Contested History of the Ecological Indian Trope: Politics of Knowledge in Conservation Science and Anthropology 1990–2000	0
Editorial	0
Editorial	0
Crafting the Anthropocene: Environmental Anxieties and Climate Realities in Nineteenth-Century France	0
‘This Disagreeable Weed’: Arable Plant Conservation May Benefit from Historical Publication Insights	0
John Dargavel, Anthropocene Days	0
Building a Puerto Rico 'Better than the One We Lost': Hurricane San Felipe II and the Puerto Rican New Deal	0
Editorial	0
‘Growing a World Wonder’: The Great Green Wall and the History of Environmental Decline in the Sahel, 1450–2022	0
Royden Loewen, Mennonite Farmers: A Global History of Place and Sustainability	0
The 2025 ESEH Conference in Uppsala	0
ESEH Notepad: 11th Biennial European Society For Environmental History (ESEH) Conference Report	0
Victor Seow, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia	0
Nicholas B. Breyfogle and Mark Sokolsky (eds), Readings in Water History	0
Ukrainian Waste for the Soviet Economy: Shaping the National Narrative	0
Race, Environment, and Crisis: Hurricane Camille and the Politics of Southern Segregation	0
Yaroslav Golubinov, Yuliya Zherdeva, Aleksandra Likhacheva and Oksana Nagornaya, Chelovek Protiv Okruzhayushchei Sredy: Landshafty Velikoi Voiny v Vostochnoi Evrope	0
Squid and Socialists: Power, Nature and the Unruly East Sea in North Korea, 1945–1964	0
Environment and Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Northeast Portugal (Eighteenth–Nineteenth Centuries)	0
The Opposite of Extinction	0
ESEH Notepad	0
Eleonor Marcussen, Acts of Aid: Politics of Relief and Reconstruction in the 1934 Bihar-Nepal Earthquake	0
Changing Course: Water Management in the Demer Valley, 1950s–1990s	0
Robert R. Crifasi, Western Water A to Z: The History, Nature, and Culture of a Vanishing Resource	0
Michael Chisholm, Anglo-Saxon Hydraulic Engineering in the Fens	0
The Treatment of Smog in Britain in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century	0
When the Parrot Returns to its Perch: Contestation of Place and Nature in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand	0
Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae and the Dismal History of the Black Swamp	0
The Contradictions of Dam Building in the People’s Republic of China	0
‘Internationalising’ Nature at the End of Empire: The Rise of Conservation NGOs in Africa and the Roots of the World Heritage Convention	0
Raf de Bont, Nature's Diplomats: Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920-1960	0
Biodiversity in the Late Middle Ages: Wild Birds in the Fourteenth-Century County of Holland	0
Trees and Disease: The Ecology of the Roman Campagna in the Seventeenth Century	0
Richard W. Judd, Democratic Spaces: Land Preservation in New England, 1850–2010	0
Oceans and Landless Farms: Linking Southern and Northern Shadow Places of Industrial Livestock (1954-1975)	0
Haunted Vegetation: Formerly German Orchards in Polish Pomerania	0
Meat, Livestock and the Colonial Project in 1830s and 1840s Australia: The Frontier, the City and the Colonial Imagination	0
Cosmopolitics and Environmental History: Towards a Multinatural Approach	0
Marcy Norton, The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492	0
Editorial	0
David Sepkoski, Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene	0
ESEH Notepad	0
'A Kind of Sensory, Strange Thing to Experience': Speaking Environmental Disaster in the Sea Empress Project Archive	0
Martin V. Melosi, Water in North American Environmental History	0
Introduction. Science and Hydropolitics: An Ambivalent Relationship	0
A British Military Engineer, the Ganga and the Spectre of Control in Colonial Northern India (1839–1854)	0
Ian M. Miller, Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China	0
Milica Prokić and Pavla Simkova (eds), Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands	0
Karen R. Jones, Beastly Britain: An Animal History	0
Summer, Sun and SAD in Early Modern England	0
ESEH Notepad: Introducing the New ESEH Presidential Team	0
The Plastic Bag: From a Mundane Swedish Innovation to the World’s Oceans	0
Science, Law and the Raj: Cultural Fields of Fish(y) Fact	0
Race, Environment, and Crisis: Hurricane Camille and the Politics of Southern Segregation	0
Editorial	0
Editorial	0
Tenacious: An Alternative History of Dogs	0
David Moon, The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s	0
Visualising Icebergs: Early Modern Depictions, ca 1570–1770	0
The Great Plains as a Bioregional Warzone	0
Alison K. Smith, Cabbage and Caviar: A History of Food in Russia ; Stephen V. Bittner, Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the L	0
Creatures of the Clearings: Deforestation, Grass-Cutting Ants and Multispecies Landscape Change in Postcolonial Brazil	0
Crisis Materials and Local Resilience: Environmental Determinants of Building Practices in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Rural Poland	0
Eserewondo Rozongombe : Livestock as Sites of Power and Resistance in Kaokoveld, Namibia	0
Joy L. K. Pachuau and Willem van Schendel, Entangled Lives: Human-Animal-Plant Histories of the Eastern Himalayan Triangle	0
An Emotional Ecology of Pigeons in Early Modern England and America	0
Velayutham Saravanan, Environmental History and Tribals in Modern India	0
‘The Accommodative Apparatus’: Drawing the Life of Sex Work on the Eroding Coast of Sundarbans	0
Mahua Sarkar, The Gasping City: An Environmental History of Calcutta,1817–1913	0
Richard Bussmann, The Archaeology of Pharaonic Egypt: Society and Culture, 2700–1700 BC	0
ESEH Notepad: The Springtime of Environmental History (France, June 2022): A Concluding Experiment	0
The ‘Mystery’ of Lop Nor: Empire, Geographical ‘Problems’ and Climate Change on the Silk Roads	0
Making Tourism Sustainable? Environment and Resort Tourism in Negril, Jamaica, 1970s–2002	0
Navigating Sturgeon Futures at the Nexus of Extinction and Commodification	0
Editorial	0
Lusty Sack Possets, Nuptial Affections and the Material Communities of Early Modern Weddings	0
Ottoman Lakes and Fluid Landscapes: Environing, Wetlands and Conservation in the Marmara Lake Basin, Circa 1550–1900	0