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Forgotten Paths of Empire: Ecology, Disease, and Commerce in the Making of...
Abstract This essay follows the journey of a 1926 Harvard expedition to Liberia and also the more recent journey of its remains—nearly six hundred photographs and more than two hours of motion picture...
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“A Catastrophe Happening in Front of Our Very Eyes”: The Environmental...
Abstract Earth is part of a vast cosmic environment, thus environmental history should embrace the whole universe. This article argues that changes in environments far removed from Earth have had...
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“A Fighter Pilot’s Heaven”: Finding Cold War Utility in the North African Desert
Abstract During the Cold War, the United States constructed an unprecedented network of military bases around the world. This expansion forced US policymakers to rethink not only their strategic...
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Engaging and Narrating the Antarctic Ice Sheet: The History of an Earthly Body
Abstract First explored at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Antarctic ice sheet is the largest body of ice in the world and plays a significant part in the earth’s atmospheric and oceanic...
View ArticleThe Torrey Canyon Disaster, Everyday Life, and the “Greening” of Britain
Abstract This article challenges the predominant narrative of the rise of modern environmentalism that supports much of the historiography on environmental ideas and movements. Through a study of the...
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Faces of the Climate Movement
Extract In September 2011, an environmental group uploaded a video on YouTube titled Tar Sands Action: Phase One.1 The first image in the three-minute film shows a group of protesters sitting quietly...
View ArticleEditor’s Note January 2017 by Lisa Brady
History allows us to journey to the far off, the unfamiliar, the umapped, and unexplored. Each of this issue’s essays examines a place that may be nearby and well known to some readers, but to those...
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