Posts tagged ‘environment’
My review of Mapping Water in Dominica
Mark W. Hauser, Mapping Water in Dominica: Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021).
Ecology in Design: In Conversation
Ecology in Design: In Conversation with Nina Edwards Anker and Peder Anker.
The American Scandinavian Society with Garette Johnson. June 24 2020.
My review of Climate in Motion
Deborah R. Coen, Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018).
H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, Jan. 17., 2020. [PDF]
My review of From Enslavement to Environmentalism
David McDermott Hughes, From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a South African Frontier
Canadian Journal of History, 42 (2007), 373-375.
Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895-1945
Click for information
From 1895 to the founding of the United Nations in 1945, the promising new science of ecology flourished in the British Empire. Peder Anker asks why ecology expanded so rapidly and how a handful of influential scientists and politicians established a tripartite ecology of nature, knowledge, and society.
Peder Anker 