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...
Deltas after rice: agrarian pasts, environmental futures
By Aditya Ramesh Environment & History, essay no. 9 Our ninth contribution to our ‘Environment & History’ series by Dr Aditya Ramesh takes us back to waterways, this time in southern India. Reflecting on the historiographical positioning...
Environment, emotions, and experience: child migration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
By Claudia Soares Environment & History, essay no. 7 The next contributor to our ‘Environment & History’ series, Dr Claudia Soares, considers how histories of the environment, emotions, and welfare intersect, through the written experiences of poor and...