{"id":18754,"date":"2023-03-21T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=18754"},"modified":"2025-04-08T08:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T08:29:10","slug":"essential-reading-in-environmental-history-from-berghahn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/essential-reading-in-environmental-history-from-berghahn","title":{"rendered":"Essential Reading in Environmental History from Berghahn"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We are excited to have a selection of titles at the\u00a0American Society for Environmental History conference<\/a>, 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!<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
We are excited to offer a 35% discount on all Environmental History titles through April 9th. Use discount code ASEH23<\/strong> on print and eBooks ordered through our website.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Environment in History: International Perspectives Series<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Published in association with the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH)<\/a>, and the Rachel Carson Center (RCC)<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Forthcoming July 2023!<\/strong><\/em>
THINKING RUSSIA’S HISTORY ENVIRONMENTALLY<\/a><\/strong>
Edited by Catherine Evtuhov, Julia Lajus, and David Moon
Afterwords by J.R. McNeill and Sverker S\u00f6rlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s History Environmentally <\/em>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Forthcoming June 2023!<\/em>
PLANTING SEEDS OF KNOWLEDGE<\/a>
Agriculture and Education in Rural Societies in the Twentieth Century<\/strong>
Edited by Heinrich Hartmann and Julia Tischler<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ENVIRONING EMPIRE<\/a>
Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa<\/strong>
Martin Kalb<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s everyday violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE RUSSIAN COLD<\/a>
Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow<\/strong>
Edited by Julia Herzberg, Andreas Renner, and Ingrid Schierle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em> assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering new perspectives on how to understand this mainstay of Russian culture and history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now in Paperback!
HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS<\/a>
Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000<\/strong>
Edited by Ernst Homburg and Elisabeth Vaupel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cErnst 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.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Isis Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CHANGES IN THE AIR<\/a>
Hurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the Present<\/strong>
Eleonora Rohland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt should be noted that Rohland has presented with<\/em> 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.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Neue Politische Literatur<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WINNER OF THE 2019 DAAD\/GSA PRIZE FOR THE BEST BOOK IN HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TAKING ON TECHNOCRACY<\/a>
Nuclear Power in Germany, 1945 to the Present<\/strong>
Dolores L. Augustine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAugustine\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 American Historical Review<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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HAIRY HIPPIES AND BLOODY BUTCHERS<\/a>
The Greenpeace Anti-Whaling Campaign in Norway<\/strong>
Juliane Riese<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s most dramatic and high-profile \u201cdirect actions\u201d\u2014as well as some of its most notable failures. This book provides an inside look at one such instance: Greenpeace\u2019s decades-long campaign against the Norwegian whaling industry. Combining historical narrative with systems-theory analysis, author Juliane Riese shows how the organization\u2019s self-presentation as a David pitted against whale-butchering Goliaths was turned on its head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TIMES OF HISTORY, TIMES OF NATURE<\/a>
Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge<\/strong>
Edited by Anders Ekstr\u00f6m & Staffan Bergwik<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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INDIGENOUS RESURGENCE<\/a>
Decolonialization and Movements for Environmental Justice<\/strong>
Edited by Jaskiran Dhillon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe\u2019s resistance against the Dakota Access pipeline to the Nepalese Newar community\u2019s 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<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE UPPER GUINEA COAST IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE<\/a><\/strong>
Edited by Jacqueline Kn\u00f6rr and Christoph Kohl<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For centuries, Africa\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Open Access
Environment and Society<\/a><\/strong>
Advances in Research<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editors:<\/strong>
Amelia Moore, University of Rhode Island<\/em>
Jerry Jacka, University of Colorado Boulder<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Environment and Society: Advances in Research<\/em> is an annual review journal, publishing articles that have been commissioned in response to specific published calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 14 \/ 2023<\/a>, 1 issue p.a. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nature and Culture<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editors:<\/strong>
Sing C. Chew, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ<\/em>
Matthias Gross, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental<\/em> Research – UFZ <\/em>and University of Jena<\/em>
Daniel Sarabia, Roanoke College, USA<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nature and Culture is now indexed in Current Contents\/Social and Behavioral Sciences (CC\/S&BS);  the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and SCOPUS <\/em>(Elsevier).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 18 \/ 2023<\/a>, 3 issues p.a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Open Access<\/strong>
Regions and Cohesion<\/a>
Regiones y Cohesi\u00f3n \/ R\u00e9gions et Coh\u00e9sion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editors:<\/strong>
Harlan Koff, Universit\u00e9 du Luxembourg<\/em>
Carmen Maganda, INECOL<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regions & Cohesion<\/em> is the journal of the Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion-Social Elevation<\/a> (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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 13 \/ 2023<\/a>, 3 issues p.a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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