Themes in Environmental History is a series of books aimed at 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students and postgraduate students in the fields of history and environmental studies. The collection covers key areas of environmental history from across the globe, running from 500 CE to the present day. These books bring together chapters on the historiography of the field and the new research that is being done to move the field forward, making engaging reading for students. Topics covered are varied and expansive and emphasize the importance of looking back at environmental history to date to understand where we are today.
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By Paul C. Rosier
June 20, 2023
Emphasizing the voices of activists, this book’s diverse contributors examine communities’ common experiences with environmental injustice, how they organize to address it, and the ways in which their campaigns intersect with related movements such as Black Lives Matter and Indigenous sovereignty. ...
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By Wout Saelens, Bruno Blondé, Wouter Ryckbosch
August 02, 2023
Uncovering, for the first time, the role played by home users in fostering energy changes, this book explores the effects of energy transitions between the medieval and industrial era on the everyday life of Europeans and considers how cultural, social and material changes in the home facilitated ...
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By Lori Jones
June 06, 2022
This volume brings together environmental and human perspectives, engages with both historians and scientists, and, being mindful that environments and disease recognize no boundaries, includes studies that touch on Europe, the wider Mediterranean world, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Disease and ...
By Martin V. Melosi
June 06, 2022
Water in North American Environmental History offers 25 cases studies that explore the range of uses and perceptions of water throughout Canadian, Mexican, and United States history. Water has served a myriad of purposes historically as human sustenance, agricultural irrigation, sanitation, ...