Posts tagged ‘environment’
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
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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 