The battle for land ‘in the national interest’ during Britain’s Second World War
By Gary Willis Environment & History, essay no. 12 Our twelfth and penultimate contribution to our ‘Environment & History’ series by post-graduate researcher, Gary Willis, hones in on the much-contested “national interest” and its role in wartime...
Emotional leadership and environmental crises: a view from nineteenth-century Vietnam
By Kathryn Dyt Environment & History, essay no. 11 For the eleventh essay in our ‘Environment & History’ series, Dr Kathryn Dyt draws our attention to the importance of emotive responses to environmental disasters by political leaders....
Colonialism’s climatic legacies
By Harriet Mercer Environment & History, essay no. 10 In the tenth article in our ‘Environment & History’ series, Dr Harriet Mercer discusses how the history of knowledge production can help us understand whose voices are more privileged in the...