Our Burning Landscapes: History and Politics of Fire in the Modern World

INTRODUCTION
Our Burning Landscapes: History and Politics of Fire in the Modern World Miguel Carmo, Bárbara Direito, José Miguel Ferreira

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Burning the Black Dragon, Creating Dongbei: Fire Social Ecological History in Northeastern China, 1945–2005 Jack Patrick Hayes

The Burning Landscapes of the Serras of Southern Portugal: A Silent Transition from Fire-Centric Landscapes to Massive Forest Fires Miguel Carmo

‘Stinking Hot Weather’: Embodying Fire Suppression on the Ground and in the Air in Mid-Twentieth-Century British Columbia Mica Jorgenson, Judith Burr

Burning as a Throughline: A History of Anthropogenic Fires in the National Forests of North Carolina Cynthia T. Fowler

The Contribution of Environmental History to Understanding Fires in Landscapes: Exploring Analogies between Case Studies in South Africa and Portugal Simon Pooley

SNAPSHOTS
Snapshots: Editorial Introduction Tyson Luneau

Conservation and Nature: A Political Ecology Perspective from the Indian Sundarbans Amir Sohel

Mapuche Community Structure and its Engendering of Environmental Resilience Andrew Slemmon

BOOK REVIEWS
Aaron Eddens, Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa Yuan Huang

Marilena Mela, Assembling the Archipelago: Heritage in Energy Transitions and Climate Action Yanling Hong, Hanhui Li

Onur İnal, Gateway to the Mediterranean: An Environmental History of Late Ottoman Izmir Nurçin İleri

Andrea Duffy, The Nature of Empire: Modern Imperialism and the Roots of the Anthropocene Minting He, Xuefeng Wang

SOCIETY PAGES
ESEH Notepad – Halfway Through, Still a Long Way to Go Wilko Graf Von Hardenberg

EDITORIAL
Editorial Leona Watson, Tyson Luneau

SNAPSHOTS
Horse Disease and Flooded Ground: Oxen as Mounts in the Gran Chaco at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Antoine Rousseau

From Pearls to Pata E’ Cabra (Arca zebra): Bivalve Banks and the Political Ecology of Collapse in the Venezuelan Caribbean Fidel Rodríguez Velásquez, Oliver Antczak

RESEARCH ARTICLES
(Re)Making Svalbard’s Marble Island: Marketing the Sublime and Mythologising the More-Than-Human Alexis Rider

The Sound of Paris: An Environmental History of Noise in the City of Light Caroline Ford

Environmental Disasters and Place-Based Identity Formation: The Windstorm of 1870 and the 150-Year Czech Relationship with the Bohemian Forest Karel Stibral, Veronika Faktorová, Michal Hořejší

From Zibil to Mezbele: Social Order, Garbage and Officials in Early Modern Ottoman Bursa Nilüfer Alkan Günay, Firat Yaşa

‘The Enchanted Dollar Bill’: The Environmental History of Socialist Tourism in Hungary and Yugoslavia Viktor Pál, Josef M. Djordjevski

Eradicating Waste in the Making of the Lower River Murray, Australia, 1880–1940 Margaret Cook, Sue Jackson

BOOK REVIEWS
Sandeep Vaheesan, Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States Huixin Huo

Anna Mazanik, Sanitizing Moscow: Waste, Animals, and Urban Health in Late Imperial Russia David Moon

Xiangli Ding, Hydropower Nation: Dams, Energy, and Political Changes in Twentieth-Century China Huixin Huo

E.C.H. Keskitalo (ed.), Understanding Human-Nature Practices for Environmental Management: Examples from Northern Europe Shiyuan Shi, Biyu Wu

SOCIETY PAGES
ESEH Notepad – NEXTGATe Evolves: Toward Craft and Creativity ESEH NEXTGATe

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