We are excited to have a selection of titles at the American Society for Environmental History conference, March 22-26, in Boston, Massachusetts. If you are attending in-person come browse some of our titles at the Ingram Academic stand in the book exhibit area!
We are excited to offer a 35% discount on all Environmental History titles through April 9th. Use discount code ASEH23 on print and eBooks ordered through our website.
Environment in History: International Perspectives Series
Published in association with the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH), and the Rachel Carson Center (RCC)
Forthcoming July 2023!
THINKING RUSSIA’S HISTORY ENVIRONMENTALLY
Edited by Catherine Evtuhov, Julia Lajus, and David Moon
Afterwords by J.R. McNeill and Sverker Sörlin
Historians of Russia were relative latecomers to the field of environmental history. Yet, in the past decade, the exploration of Russian environmental history has burgeoned. Thinking Russia’s History Environmentally showcases collaboration amongst an international set of scholars who focus on the contribution that the study of Russian environments makes to the global environmental field.
Forthcoming June 2023!
PLANTING SEEDS OF KNOWLEDGE
Agriculture and Education in Rural Societies in the Twentieth Century
Edited by Heinrich Hartmann and Julia Tischler
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, agricultural practices and rural livelihoods were challenged by changes such as commercialization, intensified global trade, and rapid urbanization. Planting Seeds of Knowledge studies the relationship between these agricultural changes and knowledge-making through a transnational lens. Spanning exchanges between different parts of Europe, North and South America, the Indian subcontinent, and Africa, the wide-reaching contributions to this volume reform current historiography to show how local experiences redefined global practice.
OPEN ACCESS!
ENVIRONING EMPIRE
Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa
Martin Kalb
Even leaving aside the vast death and suffering that it wrought on indigenous populations, German ambitions to transform Southwest Africa in the early part of the twentieth century were futile for most. For years colonists wrestled ocean waters, desert landscapes, and widespread aridity as they tried to reach inland in their effort of turning outwardly barren lands into a profitable settler colony. In his innovative environmental history, Martin Kalb outlines the development of the colony up to World War I, deconstructing the common settler narrative, all to reveal the importance of natural forces and the Kaisereich’s everyday violence.
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THE RUSSIAN COLD
Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow
Edited by Julia Herzberg, Andreas Renner, and Ingrid Schierle
Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the borders of Russia and the Soviet Union, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering new perspectives on how to understand this mainstay of Russian culture and history.
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Now in Paperback!
HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS
Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000
Edited by Ernst Homburg and Elisabeth Vaupel
“Ernst Homburg and Elisabeth Vaupel make an outstanding contribution to historical toxicology by assembling an impressively varied but closely interconnected collection of essays that focus on a number of industrially produced chemical substances. They do so, too, by their own introductory overview of toxicological concepts and developments across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and by a conclusion that addresses the overarching question of periodization in the historiography of the regulation of hazardous chemicals.” • Isis Journal
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CHANGES IN THE AIR
Hurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the Present
Eleonora Rohland
“It should be noted that Rohland has presented with Changes in the Air a well-articulated and argued study that, for the first time, presents the history of the hurricanes of New Orleans systematically in its three hundred years of development. Rohland’s study is significant well beyond the space of New Orleans and the temporary phenomena of hurricanes: The author very vividly conveys a structural, historical understanding for continuities, ruptures and changes in disaster adaptation practices in the Anthropocene.” • Neue Politische Literatur
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WINNER OF THE 2019 DAAD/GSA PRIZE FOR THE BEST BOOK IN HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
TAKING ON TECHNOCRACY
Nuclear Power in Germany, 1945 to the Present
Dolores L. Augustine
“Augustine’s broad coverage of the scientific and emotional stakes of nuclear power in both German states amid the Cold War make this a vital read for historians interested in environmentalism and new social movements. Engagingly written, it is accessible to advanced undergraduates as well.” • American Historical Review
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HAIRY HIPPIES AND BLOODY BUTCHERS
The Greenpeace Anti-Whaling Campaign in Norway
Juliane Riese
In the popular imagination, no issue has been more closely linked with the environmental group Greenpeace than whaling. Opposition to commercial whaling has inspired many of the organization’s most dramatic and high-profile “direct actions”—as well as some of its most notable failures. This book provides an inside look at one such instance: Greenpeace’s decades-long campaign against the Norwegian whaling industry. Combining historical narrative with systems-theory analysis, author Juliane Riese shows how the organization’s self-presentation as a David pitted against whale-butchering Goliaths was turned on its head.
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Open Access
TIMES OF HISTORY, TIMES OF NATURE
Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge
Edited by Anders Ekström & Staffan Bergwik
As climate change becomes an increasingly important part of public discourse, the relationship between time in nature and history is changing. Nature can no longer be considered a slow and immobile background to human history, and the future can no longer be viewed as open and detached from the past. Times of History, Times of Nature engages with this historical shift in temporal sensibilities through a combination of detailed case studies and synthesizing efforts. Focusing on the history of knowledge, media theory, and environmental humanities, this volume explores the rich and nuanced notions of time and temporality that have emerged in response to climate change.
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INDIGENOUS RESURGENCE
Decolonialization and Movements for Environmental Justice
Edited by Jaskiran Dhillon
From the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s resistance against the Dakota Access pipeline to the Nepalese Newar community’s protest of the Fast Track Road Project, Indigenous peoples around the world are standing up and speaking out against global capitalism to protect the land, water, and air. By reminding us of the fundamental importance of placing Indigenous politics, histories, and ontologies at the center of our social movements, Indigenous Resurgence positions environmental justice within historical, social, political, and economic contexts, exploring the troubling relationship between colonial and environmental violence and reframing climate change and environmental degradation through an anticolonial lens.
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THE UPPER GUINEA COAST IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Edited by Jacqueline Knörr and Christoph Kohl
For centuries, Africa’s Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the African continent and beyond engaging in economic trade, cultural exchange and various forms of conflict. This book provides a wide-ranging look at how such encounters have continued into the present day, identifying the disruptions and continuities in religion, language, economics and various other social phenomena.
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Berghahn Journals
Open Access
Environment and Society
Advances in Research
Editors:
Amelia Moore, University of Rhode Island
Jerry Jacka, University of Colorado Boulder
Environment and Society: Advances in Research is an annual review journal, publishing articles that have been commissioned in response to specific published calls.
Volume 14 / 2023, 1 issue p.a.
Editors:
Sing C. Chew, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
Matthias Gross, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ and University of Jena
Daniel Sarabia, Roanoke College, USA
Nature and Culture is now indexed in Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences (CC/S&BS); the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and SCOPUS (Elsevier).
Volume 18 / 2023, 3 issues p.a.
Open Access
Regions and Cohesion
Regiones y Cohesión / Régions et Cohésion
Editors:
Harlan Koff, Université du Luxembourg
Carmen Maganda, INECOL
Regions & Cohesion is the journal of the Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion-Social Elevation (RISC-RISE), a cross-regional, interdisciplinary, and multilingual network of socially conscious and prestigious research institutes in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, and Asia.
Volume 13 / 2023, 3 issues p.a.
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