Environment and History

Papers
(The TQCC of Environment and History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
No Body, No Crime? Vicariously Imagining Africa’s Arsenic Century: Bovines, Arsenic Poisoning and Multi-Species Toxic Histories in Southern Rhodesia (Colonial Zimbabwe), 1900–1940s18
Echo Worlds and Mole-Thinking: Imagining the Nocturnal Sensorium in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Scientific Investigations17
Cristina Brito, Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa8
Sustainable Academia: The Responsibilities of Academic Historians in a Climate-Impacted World5
Of Whales and Dugongs: Examining the Rise of Colonial Conservation as Development in Madagascar's Marine History5
From Devil-Fish to Friendly Whale? Encountering Gray Whales on The California Coast5
Voices of Protest Against Industrial Pollution in Hubei, China, During the 1970s and 1980s5
Remaking Nature at North Korea’s West Sea Barrage4
Replenishing the Soil: Food, Fertiliser and Soil Science in Occupied Japan (1945-52)4
Lessons from the Past? A Survey of Finnish Forest Utilisation from the Mid-Eighteenth Century to the Present4
David Fedman, Eleana J. Kim and Albert L. Park (eds), Forces of Nature: New Perspectives on Korean Environments4
Wild Blue: The Post-World War Two Ocean Frontier and its Legacy for Law of the Sea4
Envisaging Energy Futures: Past and Present3
The Great Chichimeca Landscape: Pre-Hispanic Natural Resources Use3
Theorising the Natural Archive3
Jennifer Keating, On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia3
The Birth of Hirudiculture: Parisian Medicine, Leech Farming and the Transformation of Marshland in Nineteenth-Century France3
Winds of Empire: Knowing Imperial Climates in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf South of the United States3
Translating Algae into Policy: Introduced Marine Pests and the Emergence of Australian Ballast Water Management, 1970–19903
‘Growing a World Wonder’: The Great Green Wall and the History of Environmental Decline in the Sahel, 1450–20223
How Bogs Made for Borderlands: The Eastern Low Countries, c. 670 – c. 1900 ce3
Editorial2
Fei Cheng, Modern Chinese Migration and the Socio-Ecological Transformations in Australia and New Zealand2
A. Çolak, S. Kirka and I.D. Rotherham (eds), Ancient Woods, Trees and Forests2
Ottoman Lakes and Fluid Landscapes: Environing, Wetlands and Conservation in the Marmara Lake Basin, Circa 1550–19002
Dipesh Chakrabarty, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age2
The Many Pollutant Identities of Carbon Dioxide: Global Climate Monitoring and Air Pollution Research in New Zealand, 1968–19752
David Moon, Nicholas B. Breyfogle and Alexandra Bekasova (eds), Place and Nature. Essays in Russian Environmental History2
ESEH Notepad: Reflections on Legacies, Failures, and Successes2
Ranjan Chakrabarti, Climate Calamity and the Wild – An Environmental History of the Bengal Delta, c. 1737–19472
The ESEH-Gale Non-Residential Fellowship in Digital Environmental History2
ESEH Notepad2
Environmental Disasters and Place-Based Identity Formation: The Windstorm of 1870 and the 150-Year Czech Relationship with the Bohemian Forest2
Olive Heffernan, The High Seas: Greed, Power and the Battle for the Unclaimed Ocean ; Corey Ross, Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World2
Interpreting Rivers for Dams: Engineering Education, Economisation, Knowledge Creation and Indian Hydro-Engineers 1860–19601
Empire, Nature and Agrarian World: A History of Rhino Preservation in the Kaziranga Game Reserve, India (1902–1938)1
The Making of the Antinuclear Movement in the Bay of Biscay: Similar Movements in Different Contexts1
Daniel Macfarlane, Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US–Canada Relations1
ESEH Notepad1
From Reintroduction to Rewilding: Autonomy, Agency and the Messy Liberation of the European Bison1
From Devil-Fish to Friendly Whale? Encountering Gray Whales on The California Coast1
Sean Nixon, Passions for Birds: Science, Sentiment and Sport1
Interdisciplinary Working and Environmental History1
Tools, Troops or Escapees? Cattle Trafficking in the Early Years of the Colony of New South Wales, Australia1
Natural Catastrophe as a Consequence of Forced Displacement: Reviewing the Handlová Landslide From a Cultural-Historical Perspective1
A Sour Disposition: Alcohol and Drinking in The Little Ice Age1
(Re)Making Svalbard’s Marble Island: Marketing the Sublime and Mythologising the More-Than-Human1
Managing Coastal Sand Drift in the Anthropocene: A Case Study of the Manawatū-Whanganui Dune Field, New Zealand, 1800s-2020s1
Jennifer Bonnell and Sean Kheraj (eds), Traces of the Animal Past: Methodological Challenges in Animal History1
The Birth of Hirudiculture: Parisian Medicine, Leech Farming and the Transformation of Marshland in Nineteenth-Century France1
A Trickle of Authority: The Arid Conditions of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Xinjiang1
Eradicating Waste in the Making of the Lower River Murray, Australia, 1880–19401
From a Grassland to a Bush Capital: A Historic Review of Canberra’s Green Infrastructure Development1
Equality Drowned in Thermal Water – Environmental Racism and Antisemitism in the Context of Tourism-Centred Modernisation in Interwar North-East Hungary1
Burned Oil Rigs and Cut Woods: The Environmental Dimension of the First World War on the Eastern Front1
David Sepkoski, Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene1
‘The Enchanted Dollar Bill’: The Environmental History of Socialist Tourism in Hungary and Yugoslavia1
Conceptualising Small Watersheds as Infrastructures of Immobility to Address Distress induced Rural-Urban Migration in India1
The ‘Mystery’ of Lop Nor: Empire, Geographical ‘Problems’ and Climate Change on the Silk Roads0
Alexandra Goryashko, A Wild Bird and a Cultured Man. The Common Eider and Homo Sapiens: Fourteen Centuries Together0
Eleonor Marcussen, Acts of Aid: Politics of Relief and Reconstruction in the 1934 Bihar-Nepal Earthquake0
Rachel Rothschild, Poisonous Skies - Acid Rain and the Globalization of Pollution0
Bad Weather and State-Building: Effective Urban Water Management during a Drought in Colonial Hong Kong, 1963–19640
ESEH Notepad: The Springtime of Environmental History (France, June 2022): A Concluding Experiment0
ESEH Notepad0
Changing Course: Water Management in the Demer Valley, 1950s–1990s0
Mahua Sarkar, The Gasping City: An Environmental History of Calcutta,1817–19130
When the Parrot Returns to its Perch: Contestation of Place and Nature in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand0
Caribbean Environmental History through Banana Disease0
Practising Cold Weather: English Agricultural Discourse and Memory, 1739–18000
Ana Lucia Camphora, Animals and Society in Brazil from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries0
Frogs and Feeling Communities: A Study in History of Emotions and Environmental History0
Editorial0
Slow Development Towards Park Creation: A History of the Black Forest in Post-War Germany0
Living With Water and Flood in Medieval and Early Modern Hull0
Race, Environment, and Crisis: Hurricane Camille and the Politics of Southern Segregation0
The Accuracy Trap: The Values and Meaning of Algorithmic Mapping, from Mineral Extraction to Climate Change0
A British Military Engineer, the Ganga and the Spectre of Control in Colonial Northern India (1839–1854)0
The Emergency Has Already Happened0
Editorial0
The Various Reasons for Killing Wolves in the Fifteenth-Century Liberty of Bruges0
Max Liboiron, Pollution is Colonialism0
Charles-François Mathis and Émilie-Anne Pépy, Greening the City: Nature in French Towns from the 17th Century0
Michael Chisholm, Anglo-Saxon Hydraulic Engineering in the Fens0
Trees and Disease: The Ecology of the Roman Campagna in the Seventeenth Century0
Ecology in Transition: Fernando González Bernáldez, Scientific Modernisation and Environmental Advocacy in Late Francoist Spain, 1960–19800
Empire, Nature and Agrarian World: A History of Rhino Preservation in the Kaziranga Game Reserve, India (1902–1938)0
Scarcity at Summit: The Arc of Environmental Attitudes at a Panamanian Botanical Garden0
Water, Race and Power: Hydro-Normativity and Urban Water Surveillance in the Cape Colony and Natal, 1830–18990
'A Kind of Sensory, Strange Thing to Experience': Speaking Environmental Disaster in the Sea Empress Project Archive0
Coping with Climate Extremes: Railways and Pastoralism During Australia's Federation Drought0
Science, Law and the Raj: Cultural Fields of Fish(y) Fact0
Science-Based ‘Greenwashing’ of Large Dams in Ethiopia: The Case of the Gibe III Dam0
David Moon, The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s0
The Plastic Bag: From a Mundane Swedish Innovation to the World’s Oceans0
Onondaga Lake in New York State: Seventeenth Century Origins of a Superfund Site0
‘Sanitary Purposes’: Engineering, Landfills, and Health During the Construction of the Panama Canal0
Mining, Waste and Environmental Thought on the Central African Copperbelt, 1950-20000
Eserewondo Rozongombe : Livestock as Sites of Power and Resistance in Kaokoveld, Namibia0
‘This Disagreeable Weed’: Arable Plant Conservation May Benefit from Historical Publication Insights0
Ian M. Miller, Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China0
The Many Pollutant Identities of Carbon Dioxide: Global Climate Monitoring and Air Pollution Research in New Zealand, 1968–19750
A Lost Macedonian Ecosystem: The Land Reclamation and Politicisation of the Philippi Marshes in Interwar Greece0
Nature and the British Raj: The Paradoxes of Forest Policy in Colonial India0
Agency under German Occupation: Conservationist Policy-Making in The Netherlands, 1940–19450
Growing Coconut Palms in the Pacific Islands: Colliding Knowledge and Values0
The Social Construction of Pine Forest Wastes in Southwestern France During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries0
‘The Light of Day Was Our Comrade’: Ecologies of Forced Displacement and the Challenge of Unfamiliar Environments in Cold-War Greece0
Environmental Journalism? Radio Free Europe, Charter 77 and the Making of an Environmental Agenda0
‘How About the Threatened Timber Famine’: Timber Merchants, Wood Shortage and Global Surveys on Timber Production and Consumption0
How Bogs Made for Borderlands: The Eastern Low Countries, c. 670 – c. 1900 ce0
The Contested History of the Ecological Indian Trope: Politics of Knowledge in Conservation Science and Anthropology 1990–20000
Editorial0
Foodways and Emotional Communities in Early Colonial Virginia0
A Lost Macedonian Ecosystem: The Land Reclamation and Politicisation of the Philippi Marshes in Interwar Greece0
Winston and Churchill: The Journey of a Platypus Gifted to the British Prime Minister in the Middle of the Second World War0
Editorial0
Building a Puerto Rico 'Better than the One We Lost': Hurricane San Felipe II and the Puerto Rican New Deal0
Alison K. Smith, Cabbage and Caviar: A History of Food in Russia ; Stephen V. Bittner, Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commiss0
From Zibil to Mezbele : Social Order, Garbage and Officials in Early Modern Ottoman Bursa0
Invisible Mountains? The Eastern and Southern Carpathians and their Environmental History (Fourteenth–Seventeenth Centuries)0
Susan Hough, The Great Quake Debate. The Crusader, the Skeptic and the Rise of Modern Seismology0
Jeremy Zallen, American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750-18650
Cosmopolitics and Environmental History: Towards a Multinatural Approach0
The Opposite of Extinction0
The Contradictions of Dam Building in the People’s Republic of China0
James Boyce, Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens0
Ukrainian Waste for the Soviet Economy: Shaping the National Narrative0
Raf de Bont, Nature's Diplomats: Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920-19600
The Water Origins of Brazil’s Nuclear Energy Infrastructure0
Nicholas B. Breyfogle and Mark Sokolsky (eds), Readings in Water History0
The Horka Litter Raking Incident: On Foresters and Peasants in Nineteenth-Century Moravia0
Race, Environment, and Crisis: Hurricane Camille and the Politics of Southern Segregation0
An Exotic Tree in a Foreign Country: A Cultural Biography of the Lodgepole Pine in Sweden0
Lianne C. Leddy, Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake0
‘Internationalising’ Nature at the End of Empire: The Rise of Conservation NGOs in Africa and the Roots of the World Heritage Convention0
The Quest for Environmental Knowledge: Biologists, Dam-Building and Environmentalism in the Brazilian Amazon0
Wildlife Corridors: Animal Mobilities and Environmental Infrastructure in the Straits Settlements, c.1870s–1920s0
Seasonal Migrants and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in a Region of Risk: The Pulse Seine Fisheries in Limfjorden, Denmark, c.1740–18600
The Sound of Paris: An Environmental History of Noise in the City of Light0
ESEH Notepad0
Oceans and Landless Farms: Linking Southern and Northern Shadow Places of Industrial Livestock (1954-1975)0
Marcy Norton, The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 14920
Working Like a Dog: Canine Labour, Technological Unemployment, and Extinction in Industrialising England0
Jane Hamlett and Julie-Marie Strange, Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life0
William Wheeler, Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan's Aral Sea Region: Sea Changes0
Alan D. Roe, Into Russian Nature: Tourism, Environmental Protection, and National Parks in the Twentieth Century0
An Emotional Ecology of Pigeons in Early Modern England and America0
Along the Western Margin of Park Am Gleisdreieck, an Urban Hybrid Environment0
The Extra-Planetary Mine: Space Mining as Continuity0
‘Growing a World Wonder’: The Great Green Wall and the History of Environmental Decline in the Sahel, 1450–20220
Ecology in Transition: Fernando González Bernáldez, Scientific Modernisation and Environmental Advocacy in Late Francoist Spain, 1960–19800
Richard W. Judd, Democratic Spaces: Land Preservation in New England, 1850–20100
A River Runs through It: Disaster Mobilities of an Elbe Island0
ESEH Notepad0
Communist Bulgaria and the Exploitation of Hydropower on the Lower Danube (1957–1989): An Enviro-Technical Approach0
'It's Not a Reservoir; It's Valuable Agricultural Land': Controlled Use of Water and Deliberate Flooding in Lincolnshire0
Shifting Shores of the Anthropocene: The Settlement and (Unstable) Stabilisation of the North-Western Mediterranean Littoral Over the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries0
Editorial0
'The Yellow River Comes from Our Hands': Silt, Hydroelectricity, and the Sanmenxia Dam, 1929-19730
ESEH Notepad0
No Body, No Crime? Vicariously Imagining Africa’s Arsenic Century: Bovines, Arsenic Poisoning and Multi-Species Toxic Histories in Southern Rhodesia (Colonial Zimbabwe), 1900–1940s0
Victor Seow, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia0
Velayutham Saravanan, Environmental History and Tribals in Modern India0
ESEH Notepad: The Hellenic Society for Environmental History: A Report from the Board0
ESEH Notepad0
Tenacious: An Alternative History of Dogs0
Reimagining the Playful, Healthy and Sustainable City0
John Dargavel, Anthropocene Days0
Wild Smoke: Managing Forest Pollution in Northern British Columbia since 19500
Singapore's Lost Coast: Land Reclamation, National Development and the Erasure of Human and Ecological Communities, 1822-Present0
Editorial0
Editorial0
Richard Bussmann, The Archaeology of Pharaonic Egypt: Society and Culture, 2700–1700 BC0
For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Uncounted Extinctions and the (Missed?) Opportunities to Prevent Them0
‘The Beauty of Our Hills Is Being Sacrificed’: Afforestation, Forestry and Colonial Environmentalism in British Hong Kong0
ESEH Notepad: Introducing the New ESEH Presidential Team0
Changing Course: Water Management in the Demer Valley, 1950s–1990s0
Editorial0
Editorial0
Navigating Sturgeon Futures at the Nexus of Extinction and Commodification0
Royden Loewen, Mennonite Farmers: A Global History of Place and Sustainability0
Negotiating Resettlements: How Social Science Experts Shaped Dam Construction and the Displacement of Alpine Communities in Switzerland and Italy, 1940–19700
Joy L. K. Pachuau and Willem van Schendel, Entangled Lives: Human-Animal-Plant Histories of the Eastern Himalayan Triangle0
A Sense of Class: Representations of Embodiment in Cornwall’s Subterranean Environments, ca. 1850–19100
Working Like a Dog: Canine Labour, Technological Unemployment, and Extinction in Industrialising England0
A Community in Exchange: A Note from The President0
Crafting the Anthropocene: Environmental Anxieties and Climate Realities in Nineteenth-Century France0
Water as the ‘Other’: Crafting Land–Water Binary in Colonial South Asia0
Giacomo Bonan, The State in the Forest: Contested Commons in the Nineteenth Century Venetian Alps0
Ignorance and Environmental History: The Opening of an Arctic Offshore Oil Frontier, 1968–19760
Caring for Waterscapes in the Anthropocene: Heritage-making at Budj Bim, Victoria, Australia0
History, Education of Desire and the Creation of New Energy Worlds0
Contextualising Extractive Landscapes for Climate Forecasting0
Environment and Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Northeast Portugal (Eighteenth–Nineteenth Centuries)0
Sylvan Anxieties and the Making of Landscapes in Early Modern Korea0
Environment, Emotion and Early Modernity0
Toward Socialist Environmentalism? Scientists and Environmental Change in Modern Hungary0
Creatures of the Clearings: Deforestation, Grass-Cutting Ants and Multispecies Landscape Change in Postcolonial Brazil0
Haunted Vegetation: Formerly German Orchards in Polish Pomerania0
Mimicking Lyrebirds in Multispecies History0
Sensing the World: Exploring Sensory Histories of the Environment0
Political Acceptance of Dangerous Technology: The Example of Leaded Petrol through the Case Study of Switzerland (1921–1970)0
Richard C. Hoffmann, The Catch: An Environmental History of European Fisheries0
Editorial0
The Long Shadow of the Pines: Vegetation in the Birth, Destruction and Reconstruction of Madrid’s University City (1927–1956)0
Excremental Flows: Manchester Corporation’s ‘Dung Hill Scheme’ and the Rampton Manor Estate, Nottinghamshire, 18920
Martin V. Melosi, Water in North American Environmental History0
‘Dry Weather’ and the Environmental History of the Early Modern Caribbean0
Chris Pearson, Dogopolis: How Dogs and Humans made Modern New York, London and Paris0
ESEH Notepad: Looking Back and Forward0
Biodiversity in the Late Middle Ages: Wild Birds in the Fourteenth-Century County of Holland0
Editorial: 30 th Anniversary Edition0
'The Sky in Place of The Nile': Climate, Religious Unrest and Scapegoating in Post-Tridentine Apulia0
Cod, Colonialism, and the Anthropocene0
Sand and the City: On Colonial Development and its Evasive Enemies in Twentieth-Century Palestine0
Meat, Livestock and the Colonial Project in 1830s and 1840s Australia: The Frontier, the City and the Colonial Imagination0
Introduction. Science and Hydropolitics: An Ambivalent Relationship0
Giulio Boccaletti, Water: A Biography0
Robert R. Crifasi, Western Water A to Z: The History, Nature, and Culture of a Vanishing Resource0
Summer, Sun and SAD in Early Modern England0
Milica Prokić and Pavla Simkova (eds), Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands0
Wild Smoke: Managing Forest Pollution in Northern British Columbia since 19500
From Competition to Cooperation: A History of Canada-US National Park Relations0
Edward Dallam Melillo, Ryan Tucker Jones and James Beattie (eds), Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World0
Crisis Materials and Local Resilience: Environmental Determinants of Building Practices in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Rural Poland0
Without Bounds: Colonialism and Disaster in St Vincent and the US Virgin Islands0
The Retreat of the Human: Processes of Rewilding after Warfare in Sichuan, China0
History of Protected Areas in Argentina: A Seesaw of Shifting Priorities and Policies in a Developing Country0
Sander Govaerts, Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe: The Meuse Region0
Editorial0
Brandis the Forgotten Botanist0
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 Võrtsjärv0
A Question of Utter Importance: The Early History of Climate Change and Energy Policy in Sweden, 1974-19830
Editorial0
NEXTGATe REPORT BACK0
Monumental Trees, or the Phenomenological Guardians of the Landscape0
Ottoman Lakes and Fluid Landscapes: Environing, Wetlands and Conservation in the Marmara Lake Basin, Circa 1550–19000
The Making of a Pastureland Biome: American Scientists, Miracle Grasses and the Transformation of the Brazilian Cerrado0
An Exotic Tree in a Foreign Country: A Cultural Biography of the Lodgepole Pine in Sweden0
Elijah Doro, Plunder for Profit: A Socio-environmental History of Tobacco Farming in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe0
Making Tourism Sustainable? Environment and Resort Tourism in Negril, Jamaica, 1970s–20020
Hujog: The Disaster Years in Pre- and Post-1971 Chilmari, Bangladesh0
From a Grassland to a Bush Capital: A Historic Review of Canberra’s Green Infrastructure Development0
Maize on the Move: The Diffusion of a Tropical Cultivar across Europe0
Lusty Sack Possets, Nuptial Affections and the Material Communities of Early Modern Weddings0
Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae and the Dismal History of the Black Swamp0
‘The Accommodative Apparatus’: Drawing the Life of Sex Work on the Eroding Coast of Sundarbans0
Reimagining Just Futures with Rachel Carson's Silent Spring0
From Reintroduction to Rewilding: Autonomy, Agency and the Messy Liberation of the European Bison0
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