Environment and History
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EH Vol.32 (1), February 2026

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
EH Vol.31 (4), November 2025

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
EH Vol.31 (3), August 2025

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
EH Vol.31 (2), February 2025

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