{"id":6152,"date":"2025-10-09T16:14:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/?p=6152"},"modified":"2025-10-09T16:17:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:17:33","slug":"environment-and-history-31-4-oct-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/2025\/10\/09\/environment-and-history-31-4-oct-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"EH Vol.31 (4), November 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dam Scientists: The Limits of Scientific Knowledge and Environmentalism<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

INTRODUCTION
Science and Hydropolitics: An Ambivalent Relationship<\/a> Sara Lorenzini<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SNAPSHOTS
Lake Erie\u2019s Toxic Algae and the Dismal History of the Black Swamp<\/a> Eliot Fackler

Crisis Materials and Local Resilience: Environmental Determinants of Building Practices in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Rural Poland<\/a> Robert Piotrowski<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Negotiating Resettlements: How Social Science Experts Shaped Dam Construction and the Displacement of Alpine Communities in Switzerland and Italy, 1940\u20131970<\/a> Sebastian De Pretto

Communist Bulgaria and the Exploitation of Hydropower on the Lower Danube (1957\u20131989): An Enviro-Technical Approach<\/a> Francesco Magno

The Quest for Environmental Knowledge: Biologists, Dam-Building and Environmentalism in the Brazilian Amazon<\/a> Frederik Schulze

Science-Based \u2018Greenwashing\u2019 of Large Dams in Ethiopia: The Case of the Gibe III Dam<\/a> Sara De Simone

Interpreting Rivers for Dams: Engineering Education, Economisation, Knowledge Creation and Indian Hydro-Engineers 1860\u20131960<\/a> Ramya Swayamprakash

The Contradictions of Dam Building in the People\u2019s Republic of China<\/a> Arunabh Ghosh, Covell Meyskens<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BOOK REVIEWS
Giulio Boccaletti, Water: A Biography<\/em><\/a> Marianne Kjell\u00e9n

Richard Bussmann, The Archaeology of Pharaonic Egypt: Society and Culture, 2700\u20131700 BC<\/em><\/a> Zhilin Li, Ying Wang

Mahua Sarkar, The Gasping City: An Environmental History of Calcutta, 1817\u20131913<\/em><\/a> Suvanakar Dey<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOCIETY PAGES
ESEH Notepad \u2013 The ESEH\u2013Gale Non-Residential Fellowship in Digital Environmental History<\/a> Wilko Graf Von Hardenberg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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