Environment and History
EDITORIAL
Editorial Leona Watson, Tyson Luneau
SNAPSHOTS
The Great Plains as a Bioregional Warzone Blake Johnson
Soybeans, Combines and Agricultural ‘Industrialisation’ in Benton County, Indiana (and well beyond), 1920–1945 J. Jacob Jones
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Meat, Livestock and the Colonial Project in 1830s and 1840s Australia: The Frontier, the City and the Colonial Imagination Nicholas Pitt
A River Runs through It: Disaster Mobilities of an Elbe Island Felix Mauch
Seasonal Migrants and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in a Region of Risk: The Pulse Seine Fisheries in Limfjorden, Denmark, c.1740–1860 Bo Poulsen, Camilla Andersen
Tools, Troops or Escapees? Cattle Trafficking in the Early Years of the Colony of New South Wales, Australia Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, Lynette Russell
‘How About the Threatened Timber Famine’: Timber Merchants, Wood Shortage and Global Surveys on Timber Production and Consumption Stéphane Castonguay
BOOK REVIEWS
Yaroslav Golubinov, Yuliya Zherdeva, Aleksandra Likhacheva and Oksana Nagornaya, Chelovek Protiv Okruzhayushchei Sredy: Landshafty Velikoi Voiny v Vostochnoi Evrope [Mankind against the Environment: Landscapes of the Great War in Eastern Europe] Andrei Vinogradov
Karen R. Jones, Beastly Britain: An Animal History Lee Raye
Coll Thrush, Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific Sabrina Schettino
SOCIETY PAGES
ESEH Notepad – The 2025 ESEH Conference in Uppsala Anneli Ekblom
EDITORIAL
Editorial Leona Watson, Tyson Luneau
SNAPSHOTS
Elephants under Empire: British Colonialism and the Taming of South India’s Forests Nandini S
Water Against Empire: Thinking From the Bengal Delta Jahidul Islam
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Making Tourism Sustainable? Environment and Resort Tourism in Negril, Jamaica, 1970s–2002 Henrice Altink
Agency under German Occupation: Conservationist Policy-Making in The Netherlands, 1940–1945 Kristian Mennen
Political Acceptance of Dangerous Technology: The Example of Leaded Petrol through the Case Study of Switzerland (1921–1970) Tiphaine Robert
Bad Weather and State-Building: Effective Urban Water Management during a Drought in Colonial Hong Kong, 1963–1964 David Clayton, Florence Mok
The ‘Mystery’ of Lop Nor: Empire, Geographical ‘Problems’ and Climate Change on the Silk Roads Lachlan Fleetwood
BOOK REVIEWS
Zozan Pehlivan, The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century Erdal Çiftçi
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy Carolina Granado
Sugata Ray, Climate Change and the Art of Devotion: Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550–1850 Yi Shan, Biyu Wu
Jane Rowling, Environments of Identity – Agricultural Community, Work and Concepts of Local in Yorkshire, 1918–2018 Mark Riley
SOCIETY PAGES
ESEH Notepad – The 2025 Bristol–Bern Prize in Public Environmental History Chanelle Adams, Dagomar Degroot
Dam Scientists: The Limits of Scientific Knowledge and Environmentalism
INTRODUCTION
Science and Hydropolitics: An Ambivalent Relationship Sara Lorenzini
SNAPSHOTS
Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae and the Dismal History of the Black Swamp Eliot Fackler
Crisis Materials and Local Resilience: Environmental Determinants of Building Practices in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Rural Poland Robert Piotrowski
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Negotiating Resettlements: How Social Science Experts Shaped Dam Construction and the Displacement of Alpine Communities in Switzerland and Italy, 1940–1970 Sebastian De Pretto
Communist Bulgaria and the Exploitation of Hydropower on the Lower Danube (1957–1989): An Enviro-Technical Approach Francesco Magno
The Quest for Environmental Knowledge: Biologists, Dam-Building and Environmentalism in the Brazilian Amazon Frederik Schulze
Science-Based ‘Greenwashing’ of Large Dams in Ethiopia: The Case of the Gibe III Dam Sara De Simone
Interpreting Rivers for Dams: Engineering Education, Economisation, Knowledge Creation and Indian Hydro-Engineers 1860–1960 Ramya Swayamprakash
The Contradictions of Dam Building in the People’s Republic of China Arunabh Ghosh, Covell Meyskens
BOOK REVIEWS
Giulio Boccaletti, Water: A Biography Marianne Kjellén
Richard Bussmann, The Archaeology of Pharaonic Egypt: Society and Culture, 2700–1700 BC Zhilin Li, Ying Wang
Mahua Sarkar, The Gasping City: An Environmental History of Calcutta, 1817–1913 Suvanakar Dey
SOCIETY PAGES
ESEH Notepad – The ESEH–Gale Non-Residential Fellowship in Digital Environmental History Wilko Graf Von Hardenberg
EDITORIAL
Editorial David Moon, Leona Watson, Tyson Luneau
SNAPSHOTS
The Plastic Bag: From a Mundane Swedish Innovation to the World’s Oceans Nils Johansson
Onondaga Lake in New York State: Seventeenth Century Origins of a Superfund Site Holly A. Rine
RESEARCH ARTICLES
A British Military Engineer, the Ganga and the Spectre of Control in Colonial Northern India (1839–1854) Rahul Ranjan
Invisible Mountains? The Eastern and Southern Carpathians and their Environmental History (Fourteenth–Seventeenth Centuries) Kata Tóth
‘The Beauty of Our Hills Is Being Sacrificed’: Afforestation, Forestry and Colonial Environmentalism in British Hong Kong Vincent Ho, Novem Tsz Wing Ho
Science, Law and the Raj: Cultural Fields of Fish(y) Fact Aarthi Sridhar
Equality Drowned in Thermal Water – Environmental Racism and Antisemitism in the Context of Tourism-Centred Modernisation in Interwar North-East Hungary Gergely Kunt
BOOK REVIEWS
Richard C. Hoffmann, The Catch: An Environmental History of European Fisheries Daria Ageeva
Marcy Norton, The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 Jim van der Meulen
Olive Heffernan, The High Seas: Greed, Power and the Battle for the Unclaimed Ocean and Corey Ross, Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World Ailish Lalor
SOCIETY PAGES
ESEH Notepad – A Community in Exchange: A Note from The President Wilko Graf Von Hardenberg
Sensing the World: Exploring Sensory Histories of the Environment
INTRODUCTION
Introduction – Sensing the World: Exploring Sensory Histories of the Environment Gabriella M. Petrick, Gerard J. Fitzgerald
SNAPSHOTS
‘This Disagreeable Weed’: Arable Plant Conservation May Benefit from Historical Publication Insights Kelly Hemmings, Paul Rollings
Winston and Churchill: The Journey of a Platypus Gifted to the British Prime Minister in the Middle of the Second World War Harrison Croft
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Echo Worlds and Mole-Thinking: Imagining the Nocturnal Sensorium in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Scientific Investigations Andrew Flack, Alice Would
Winds of Empire: Knowing Imperial Climates in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf South of the United States Elaine Lafay
A Sense of Class: Representations of Embodiment in Cornwall’s Subterranean Environments, ca. 1850–1910 Lena Ferriday
A Sour Disposition: Alcohol and Drinking in The Little Ice Age Gabriella M. Petrick
Practising Cold Weather: English Agricultural Discourse and Memory, 1739–1800 Emma C. Moesswilde
BOOK REVIEWS
Daniel Macfarlane, Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US–Canada Relations Sean Kheraj
Edward Dallam Melillo, Ryan Tucker Jones and James Beattie (eds), Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World Charles Dawson
Milica Prokić and Pavla Simkova (eds), Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands Joana Gaspar De Freitas
SOCIETY PAGES
ESEH Notepad – Reflecting on ‘The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History’: A Conversation with the Editors William san Martín, Mark Carey, Sandra Swart, Emily O’Gorman
EDITORIAL
Editorial David Moon, Leona Watson
SNAPSHOTS
Contextualising Extractive Landscapes for Climate Forecasting Emma L. Verstraete
‘Internationalising’ Nature at the End of Empire: The Rise of Conservation NGOs in Africa and the Roots of the World Heritage Convention Jan-Niklas Kniewel
RESEARCH ARTICLES
The Use of Vegetation Fire in Portugal: Historical Legislative and Normative Analysis E. De Oliveira, A.C. Sequeira, P.M. Fernandes, M.C. Colaço
The Water Origins of Brazil’s Nuclear Energy Infrastructure Jennifer Eaglin
A Lost Macedonian Ecosystem: The Land Reclamation and Politicisation of the Philippi Marshes in Interwar Greece George L. Vlachos
The Making of the Antinuclear Movement in the Bay of Biscay: Similar Movements in Different Contexts Martí Serra Riera
Cosmopolitics and Environmental History: Towards a Multinatural Approach Jahzeel Aguilera Lara, Pedro Urquijo Torres
BOOK REVIEWS
David Fedman, Eleana J. Kim and Albert L. Park (eds), Forces of Nature: New Perspectives on Korean Environments Anne Whitehouse
Richard W. Judd, Democratic Spaces: Land Preservation in New England, 1850–2010 Karl Nycklemoe
Cristina Brito, Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa Matthew Plishka
SOCIETY PAGES
ESEH Notepad – NEXTGATe REPORT BACK Sandra Swart
30th Anniversary Issue
EDITORIAL
Editorial: 30th Anniversary Edition Sarah Johnson, David Moon, Leona Skelton
SNAPSHOTS
Water as the ‘Other’: Crafting Land–Water Binary in Colonial South Asia Nabaparna Ghosh
‘The Light of Day Was Our Comrade’: Ecologies of Forced Displacement and the Challenge of Unfamiliar Environments in Cold-War Greece Dimitrios Bormpoudakis
SPECIALLY COMMISSIONED ARTICLES
Ukrainian Waste for the Soviet Economy: Shaping the National Narrative Tetiana Perga
‘Dry Weather’ and the Environmental History of the Early Modern Caribbean Mary Draper
Caribbean Environmental History through Banana Disease Matthew R. Plishka
‘Sanitary Purposes’: Engineering, Landfills, and Health During the Construction of the Panama Canal Francisco Javier Bonilla
Without Bounds: Colonialism and Disaster in St Vincent and the US Virgin Islands Jessica S. Samuel, Lauren Prince
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Living With Water and Flood in Medieval and Early Modern Hull Bryony McDonagh, Hannah Worthen, Stewart Mottram, Stormm Buxton-Hill
Shanghai and the Smoke Fiend: Obstacles to the Control of Urban Smoke, 1869–1943 Xiaojie Li, David S. Jones
No Body, No Crime? Vicariously Imagining Africa’s Arsenic Century: Bovines, Arsenic Poisoning and Multi-Species Toxic Histories in Southern Rhodesia (Colonial Zimbabwe), 1900–1940s Elijah Doro
Ignorance and Environmental History: The Opening of an Arctic Offshore Oil Frontier, 1968–1976 Andrew Stuhl
CODA
Interdisciplinary Working and Environmental History Leona J. Watson
BOOK REVIEWS
Elijah Doro, Plunder for Profit: A Socio-environmental History of Tobacco Farming in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe Giovanni Tonolo
John Dargavel, Anthropocene Days John Mcneill
Eleonor Marcussen, Acts of Aid: Politics of Relief and Reconstruction in the 1934 Bihar-Nepal Earthquake Vipul Singh
SOCIETY PAGES
Interview with Poul Holm Poul Holm, Katja Bruisch, Daniele Valisena, Chloé Vlassopoulos, Alexey Sobisevich, Sandra Swart, Marianna Dudley, Jonatan Palmblad
EDITORIAL
Editorial David Moon, Leona Skelton
SNAPSHOTS
The Extra-Planetary Mine: Space Mining as Continuity Thomas Cheney
Monumental Trees, or the Phenomenological Guardians of the Landscape Tomasz Związek
Natural Catastrophe as a Consequence of Forced Displacement: Reviewing the Handlová Landslide From a Cultural-Historical Perspective Michal Korhel
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Empire, Nature and Agrarian World: A History of Rhino Preservation in the Kaziranga Game Reserve, India (1902–1938) Biswajit Sarmah
From Devil-Fish to Friendly Whale? Encountering Gray Whales on The California Coast Anna Guasco
From a Grassland to a Bush Capital: A Historic Review of Canberra’s Green Infrastructure Development Fahimeh Mofrad, Maria Ignatieva
Ecology in Transition: Fernando González Bernáldez, Scientific Modernisation and Environmental Advocacy in Late Francoist Spain, 1960–1980 Santos Casado
An Exotic Tree in a Foreign Country: A Cultural Biography of the Lodgepole Pine in Sweden Erland Mårald, Jimmy Jönsson, Örjan Kardell, Jörgen Sjögren, Anna Tunlid
BOOK REVIEWS
Ian M. Miller, Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China Shaoming Duan
Robert R. Crifasi, Western Water A to Z: The History, Nature, and Culture of a Vanishing Resource Karl Nycklemoe
A. Çolak, S. Kirka and I.D. Rotherham (eds), Ancient Woods, Trees and Forests Pietro Piana
Ranjan Chakrabarti, Climate Calamity and the Wild – An Environmental History of the Bengal Delta, c. 1737–1947 Ian Rotherham
INTERVIEW
ESEH Notepad – Our Common Past: When it All Started… Chloé Vlassopoulos, Verena Winiwarter
EDITORIAL
Editorial David Moon, Leona Skelton
SNAPSHOTS
Mimicking Lyrebirds in Multispecies History Ruby Ekkel
Burned Oil Rigs and Cut Woods: The Environmental Dimension of the First World War on the Eastern Front Iaroslav Golubinov
‘The Accommodative Apparatus’: Drawing the Life of Sex Work on the Eroding Coast of Sundarbans Amrita Dasgupta
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Race, Environment, and Crisis: Hurricane Camille and the Politics of Southern Segregation Atte Arffman, Antero Holmila
How Bogs Made for Borderlands: The Eastern Low Countries, c. 670 – c. 1900 ce Maurice Paulissen, Roy Van Beek, Edward H. Huijbens
Wild Smoke: Managing Forest Pollution in Northern British Columbia since 1950 Mica Jorgenson
‘Growing a World Wonder’: The Great Green Wall and the History of Environmental Decline in the Sahel, 1450–2022 John Cropper
BOOK REVIEWS
David Moon, The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s Alina Bykova
Royden Loewen, Mennonite Farmers: A Global History of Place and Sustainability Benjamin W. Goossen
Joy L. K. Pachuau and Willem van Schendel, Entangled Lives: Human-Animal-Plant Histories of the Eastern Himalayan Triangle Harrison Croft
SHORT COMMUNICATION
ESEH Notepad – Reflections: Initiatives of the Third ESEH NEXTGATe Team (2021–2023) and Plans for the Future Noémi Ujházy, Elizabeth Hameeteman, Goran Đurđević, Tanja Riekkinen, Sevgi Mutlu Sirakova, Monique Palma, Monica Vasile
EDITORIAL
Editorial David Moon, Leona Skelton
SNAPSHOTS
Haunted Vegetation: Formerly German Orchards in Polish Pomerania Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska
Hujog: The Disaster Years in Pre- and Post-1971 Chilmari, Bangladesh Saad Quaseem
Environment and Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Northeast Portugal (Eighteenth–Nineteenth Centuries) Pedro Mota Tavares
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Working Like a Dog: Canine Labour, Technological Unemployment, and Extinction in Industrialising England Neil Humphrey
Ottoman Lakes and Fluid Landscapes: Environing, Wetlands and Conservation in the Marmara Lake Basin, Circa 1550–1900 Semih Çelik, Christina Luke, Christopher H. Roosevelt
The Birth of Hirudiculture: Parisian Medicine, Leech Farming and the Transformation of Marshland in Nineteenth-Century France Robert G.W. Kirk, Neil Pemberton, Thibaut Serviant-Fine
From Reintroduction to Rewilding: Autonomy, Agency and the Messy Liberation of the European Bison Monica Vasile
The Many Pollutant Identities of Carbon Dioxide: Global Climate Monitoring and Air Pollution Research in New Zealand, 1968–1975 R. Ashton Macfarlane
BOOK REVIEWS
Jennifer Bonnell and Sean Kheraj (eds), Traces of the Animal Past: Methodological Challenges in Animal History Harrison Croft
Martin V. Melosi, Water in North American Environmental History J.R. McNeill
SHORT COMMUNICATION
ESEH Notepad Christian Rohr
