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Environmental History

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Environmental History is an international journal dedicated to exploring the history of human interaction with the natural world.

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Environmental History@EnvHistJournalOct 15
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS ANNOUNCEMENT The Past, Present, and Future of the International Polar Year April 22-23, 2027; Columbus, Ohio See our flyer for details on how to participate: environmentalhistory.net/ima…
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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS ANNOUNCEMENT The Past, Present, and Future of the International Polar Year April 22-23, 2027; Columbus, Ohio See our flyer for details on how to participate: environmentalhistory.net/ima…
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You can now read Robert M. Rouphail's (@robrouphail) "Mandarin of the Ecological Modern: Hassan Fathy, Nature, and the Postcolonial African City" from the October 2026 issue. #envhist #envhum #africanhistory journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
Mandarin of the Ecological Modern: Hassan Fathy, Nature, and the Postcolonial African City |...

Mandarin of the Ecological Modern: Hassan Fathy, Nature, and the Postcolonial African City |...

AbstractIn the early 1960s, the Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy traveled throughout West Africa as part of the City of the Future (COF) research project, which aimed to collect data on urban life...

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You can now read Scott Doebler's "Living Among the Logwood: Maya Forests, Liminal Amphibians, and Quotidian Connectivities in the Laguna de Términos, 1667–1717" from the October 2026 issue. #envhist #envhum journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
Living Among the Logwood: Maya Forests, Liminal Amphibians, and Quotidian Connectivities in the...

Living Among the Logwood: Maya Forests, Liminal Amphibians, and Quotidian Connectivities in the...

AbstractDuring the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the forests, wetlands, savannas, and mangroves of Laguna de Términos, the world’s largest tidal lagoon by volume, became a key site...

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You can now read Sarah Mittlefehldt's "Distilling the Forest: Wood Alcohol and Industrial Chemistry in the Early Twentieth Century" from the October 2026 issue. #envhist #envhum journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
Distilling the Forest: Wood Alcohol and Industrial Chemistry in the Early Twentieth Century |...

Distilling the Forest: Wood Alcohol and Industrial Chemistry in the Early Twentieth Century |...

AbstractIn the early twentieth century, American chemists sought new ways to produce fuel and organic chemicals from the nation’s forests through improved wood distillation technologies. Remote...

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You can now read @Marnie_HW's "Machines Writing Histories Using Insect Algorithms: Toward an Age of Environmental Historiography for Artificial Intelligence" from the July 2026 issue. #envhist #envhum #ai journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
Machines Writing Histories Using Insect Algorithms: Toward an Age of Environmental Historiography...

Machines Writing Histories Using Insect Algorithms: Toward an Age of Environmental Historiography...

AbstractInsect-inspired algorithms have broad appeal in artificial intelligence (AI). They power the labeling, selection, and grouping of data from the past, including the human past. Insect-inspired...

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You can now read Hauke-Peter Vehrs and David M. Anderson's "Hunting, Environmental Change, and the Defaunation of Wildlife in Baringo, Kenya (1840–1977)" from the July 2026 issue! #envhist #envhum #Kenya journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
Hunting, Environmental Change, and the Defaunation of Wildlife in Baringo, Kenya (1840–1977) |...

Hunting, Environmental Change, and the Defaunation of Wildlife in Baringo, Kenya (1840–1977) |...

AbstractThis article takes a long-term view of the history of Kenya’s wildlife, to consider the gradual defaunation of wildlife that took place over the first half of the twentieth century. In the...

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You can now read Calin Cotoi and Alexandru Iorga's "Common Reed and Giant Cane: Transnational Plant Lives and Hydro-Modernities in the Socialist Danube Delta" from the July 2026 issue! #envhist #envhum #danubedelta journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
Common Reed and Giant Cane: Transnational Plant Lives and Hydro-Modernities in the Socialist Danube...

Common Reed and Giant Cane: Transnational Plant Lives and Hydro-Modernities in the Socialist Danube...

AbstractThis article explores the historical emergence of the Danube Delta as part of the larger story of hydro-modernity—that is, the creation of political and scientific representations of dynamic...

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Ahead of new print alert! You can now read John Kanbayashi's "Watershed Protection as Dispossession in Japanese-Occupied Taiwan" from the April 2026 issue. #envhist #envhum journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
Watershed Protection as Dispossession in Japanese-Occupied Taiwan | Environmental History: Vol 31,...

Watershed Protection as Dispossession in Japanese-Occupied Taiwan | Environmental History: Vol 31,...

AbstractEnvironmentalists have long seen in the watershed the promise of an ethic of stewardship predicated on the recognition that no action affecting a waterway can be free from upstream influences...

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Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Jaeyoung Ha's "'A Good Tree Is a Fast-Growing Tree': South Korea’s Reforestation in the 1950s and the Making of Cold War Ecology in East Asia" from the April 2026 issue. #envhist #envhum journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
“A Good Tree Is a Fast-Growing Tree”: South Korea’s Reforestation in the 1950s and the Making of...

“A Good Tree Is a Fast-Growing Tree”: South Korea’s Reforestation in the 1950s and the Making of...

AbstractThis article reexamines the early history of reforestation in postwar South Korea, focusing on the 1950s, a decade typically overshadowed by the authoritarian tree-planting campaigns of the...

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Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Paul Ocobock's "Insect Safari: Invading Species and Transimperial Science in Kenya" from the April 2026 issue. #envhist #envhum journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
Insect Safari: Invading Species and Transimperial Science in Kenya | Environmental History: Vol 31,...

Insect Safari: Invading Species and Transimperial Science in Kenya | Environmental History: Vol 31,...

AbstractAt the turn of the twentieth century, the region that came to be known as Kenya endured two late-imperial biological exchanges, as white settlers and arabica coffee arrived to dominate the...

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Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Jake Subryan Richards' "Ecologies in Flight: Black Environmental Knowledge and Human-Bird Interactions Between the Caribbean and Britain" from the April 2026 issue. #envhist #envhum journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
Ecologies in Flight: Black Environmental Knowledge and Human-Bird Interactions Between the Caribb...

Ecologies in Flight: Black Environmental Knowledge and Human-Bird Interactions Between the Caribb...

AbstractPeople interacted with birds and created ecological knowledge about them while enslaved and during the transition to emancipation from 1848 onward in the Danish colony of St. Croix. These...

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This article from Environmental History explores the overlooked history of the first world's fair for the environment and its contribution to the corporate capture of environmental messaging. Read more: ow.ly/nVxZ50YH4Un @EnvHistJournal
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Congratulations to Molly Warsh for winning the Leopold-Hidy Award for the article "Seasonal Harvests: Migration, Reproduction, and Religion in the Early Modern Spanish Tuna Fisheries." @ChicagoJournals has taken down the paywall to the article: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
Seasonal Harvests: Migration, Reproduction, and Religion in the Early Modern Spanish Tuna Fisheries...

Seasonal Harvests: Migration, Reproduction, and Religion in the Early Modern Spanish Tuna Fisheries...

AbstractThis article argues that the early modern Spanish tuna fisheries were a compelling maritime cultural theater in which species, calendars, and cultural practices collided. Combining the...

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Chicago Journals@ChicagoJournalsMar 25
Join us at the American Society for Environmental History conference in Kansas City, MO to learn about Environmental History, our other journals, and to grab some giveaways. Can’t make it in person? Discover our history journals: ow.ly/rUGm50Yn3PV @EnvHistJournal @ASEH_org
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Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Camden Burd's Gallery Essay "Playing Gaia: Simulation, Science, and the Significance of Video Games for Environmental History" from the January 2026 issue. #envhist #envhum journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
Playing Gaia: Simulation, Science, and the Significance of Video Games for Environmental History |...

Playing Gaia: Simulation, Science, and the Significance of Video Games for Environmental History |...

AbstractIn 1990, video game publisher Maxis released SimEarth. Designed by Will Wright, the game tasked users to consider atmospheric, geologic, and biological variables to simulate a global system....

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Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Sophie Brockmann's (@Brockmann_S) "Heritage and Environment: Archaeology at a United Fruit Company Site, 1909–1939" from the January 2026 issue. #evnhist #envhum journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
Heritage and Environment: Archaeology at a United Fruit Company Site, 1909–1939 | Environmental...

Heritage and Environment: Archaeology at a United Fruit Company Site, 1909–1939 | Environmental...

AbstractThe process of creating archaeological heritage sites is necessarily rooted in the environments that surround them. This was particularly true for the Maya archaeological site of Quiriguá,...

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Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Megan Ann Black's "The 'Eco-Phony' World’s Fair: Expo ’74 and the Bind of Being Friends of the Earth" from the January 2026 issue. #envhist #envhum #environmentalism journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
The “Eco-Phony” World’s Fair: Expo ’74 and the Bind of Being Friends of the Earth | Environmental...

The “Eco-Phony” World’s Fair: Expo ’74 and the Bind of Being Friends of the Earth | Environmental...

AbstractBy the summer of 1974, David Brower had turned his environmental organization Friends of the Earth into a leading proponent of global environmentalism. However, after returning from the...

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Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Mathijs Boom and Jip van Besouw's "Rising Seas, Sinking Lands: Reckoning with Local and Global Sea Level in the Early Modern Netherlands" from the January 2026 issue. #envhist #envhum journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
Rising Seas, Sinking Lands: Reckoning with Local and Global Sea Level in the Early Modern Netherl...

Rising Seas, Sinking Lands: Reckoning with Local and Global Sea Level in the Early Modern Netherl...

AbstractThis article examines notions of rising seas in the early modern Dutch Republic and explores how Dutch water management spurred efforts to think and act across scales. Focusing on a 1731...

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Ahead of new print alert! You can now read @WaterThe_Planet (Ruth Gamble) and Hongzhang Xu's "Colonizing the Lu’s Realm: How Lowland Aquacultures Transformed the Upper Brahmaputra’s Waters in the Twentieth Century" from the January 2026 issue. #envhist journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
Colonizing the Lu’s Realm: How Lowland Aquacultures Transformed the Upper Brahmaputra’s Waters in...

Colonizing the Lu’s Realm: How Lowland Aquacultures Transformed the Upper Brahmaputra’s Waters in...

AbstractThis article argues that first the British, then the Indian, and especially the Chinese states extended their control over the upper Brahmaputra River’s waters in Tibet and the Himalaya,...

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