29.3 - Environmental History
Special Issue
- Knoll, Martin: Hunting in the eighteenth century: an environmental history perspective.
- MacLennan, Carol: The mark of sugar: Hawai'i's eco-industrial heritage.
- Oslund, Karen: Protecting fat mammals or carnivorous humans?: towards an environmental history of whales.
- Beattie, James: Rethinking science, religion and nature in environmental history: drought in early twentieth-century New Zealand.
- Bolotova, Alla: Colonization of nature in the Soviet Union: state ideology, public discourse, and the experience of geologists.
- Bauerkämper, Arnd: The industrialization of agriculture and its consequences for the natural environment: an inter-German comparative perspective.
- Nehring, Holger: Cold War, apocalypse and peaceful atoms: interpretations of nuclear energy in the British and West German anti-nuclear weapons movements, 1955-1964.
- Uekötter, Frank: The old conservation history - and the new: an argument for fresh perspectives on an established topic.
- Hunger, Ina; Sparkes, Andrew; Stelter, Reinhard: Qualitative methods in sport sciences: a special FQS issue.
- Doliger, Cédric: The Easterlin Hypothesis.
HSR Vol. 29 (2004) No. 3: Special Issue: Environmental History
Frank Uekötter (Ed.): The Frontiers of Environmental History
Environmental history has experienced a boom in recent years; and with that, it has begun to develop a certain thematic “canon”. This issue looks beyond the usual range of topics, thus arguing for a broader definition of environmental history.
Which issues and perspectives have received less attention than they deserve? What are the prospects for a more inclusive history of man and the natural world? And how do these new perspectives relate to the emerging orthodoxy in the field?
Taken together, these essays give an impression of the true challenge that environmental history poses to the historical profession as a whole.