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February 15, 2016
Alan Mikhail, “Enlightenment Anthropocene,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 49.2 (2016): 211-231. Abstract: This article offers an analysis of the emergence, use, and current...
January 20, 2016
Sabin’s essay examines how President Jimmy Carter and his policy advisors sought to balance regulation to protect health and the environment with regulatory reform that...
November 15, 2015
Fledgling public interest environmental law firms achieved landmark victories in the 1970s that helped define the early successes of the modern environmental movement. They...
September 8, 2015
In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we...
July 16, 2015
M. Sigl, M. Winstrup, J. R. McConnell, K. C. Welten, G. Plunkett, F. Ludlow, U. Büntgen, M. Caffee, N. Chellman, D. Dahl-Jensen, H. Fischer, S. Kipfstuhl, C. Kostick, O. J....
April 18, 2015
Yale Environmental History hosted its fifth annual environmental conference on April 18, 2015, “New Perspectives in Environmental History.” 
April 1, 2015
Alan Mikhail, “Ottoman Iceland: A Climate History,” Environmental History (2015) 20(2): 262-284.   Abstract: In June 1783, the Laki volcanic fissure began erupting in Iceland...
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January 18, 2015
The diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule. In this panoramic work of...
July 1, 2014
William Rankin. “The Geography of Radionavigation and the Politics of Intangible Artifacts.” Technology and Culture 55.3 (2014): 622-674.  Abstract During the middle of the...
April 12, 2014
Yale Environmental History hosted its fourth northeast environmental history conference on April 12, with terrific papers from ten graduate students from nine different...
November 19, 2013
Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have eaten, fought, prayed, and moved with other animals. In this stunningly original and conceptually rich book,...
November 1, 2013
Peter C. Perdue. “Ecologies of Empire: From Qing Cosmopolitanism to Modern Nationalism.” Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 2.2 (2013): 396-423. Abstract...
September 3, 2013
In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals captured the public’s...
May 1, 2013
This book tells the story of a society reversing deeply held worldviews and revolutionizing its demography. In parts of eighteenth-century Japan, couples raised only two or...