Reviews: Environmental History: A Concise Introduction, Land for Industrial Development, the Environment of the British Isles. An Atlas, the Earth Brokers: Power, Politics, and World Development, International Perspectives in Urban Studies 2, the Countryside Ideal: Anglo-American Images of Landscape

This essay attempts to counter the scarcity of efforts to address issues of natural resource extraction and environmental exploitation in public history forums. Focused on western Pennsylvania, it argues that the history of industrial development and its deleterious environmental impacts demands a regional vision that not only frames these stories within the ideological and economic context of the past, but also challenges residents and visitors to consider this history in light of the related environmental concerns of our own time. The essay explores some of the difficult issues faced by public historians and practitioners as they seek to produce public environmental histories that do not elude opportunities to link past and present in meaningful ways.

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Among Forests, Wetlands and Animals: Ecocriticism in the Baltics

Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment ◽

10.37536/ecozona.2020.11.2.3498 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 42-51

Author(s):

Kadri Tüür ◽

Ene-Reet Soovik

Keyword(s):

Environmental History ◽

Urban Studies ◽

Animal Studies ◽

Academic Research ◽

Environmental Humanities ◽

The Past ◽

Baltic Countries ◽

Significant Events ◽

The Baltic ◽

Institutional Representation

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania often tend to be grouped together under the label of ’the Baltic countries’, yet they constitute a region characterised by a diversity which also manifests itself in the field of academic research. Still, it may be possible to detect some common elements in the ecocriticism-related activities that have been taking place in these states during the past couple of decades. The article maps the salient tendencies in the environmental humanities (including ecocriticism) of the region that recently gained an institutionalised platform in the form of the Baltic Conferences on the Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences (BALTEHUMS) that were started in 2018. A survey is given of the three countries’ most significant events and publications that have boasted an ecocritical component, ecocriticism’s institutional representation and inclusion of ecocritical issues in university syllabuses and theory textbooks, as well as some pertinent topics and sub-fields on which the scholars in these countries are currently working. Among these, various aspects of the connections of literature and the ecosystems of the forest (trees) and the mire can be noticed; while also animal studies, literary urban studies, bio- and ecosemiotics and environmental history appear to have entered a fruitful dialogue with ecocritical scholarship currently conducted in the Baltics.

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The meteoric stone seen to fall near Crumlin, Co. Antrim, on September 13, 1902

Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society ◽

10.1180/minmag.1921.019.93.01 ◽

1921 ◽

Vol 19 (93) ◽

pp. 149-162 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lazarus Fletcher

Keyword(s):

Annual Meeting ◽

British Association ◽

British Isles ◽

Lough Neagh ◽

The North ◽

The Earth ◽

The Village

On Saturday, September 18, 1902, at 10.30 a.m. (Irish time), a stone coming from the sky struck the earth (let. 54° 88' 20" N., long. 6° 12' 10" W. of Greenwich) at a farm, belonging to Mr. Andrew Walker, situated in the district termed Crossbill, a mile to the north of the village of Crumlin, in which there is a station of the same name on the line of railway between Lisburn and Antrim. The place of fall is 3½ miles east of Lough Neagh, the largest lake in the British Isles, and I2 miles almost due west of Belfast, in which city nearly two thousand members of the British Association were then assembled for the annual meeting (September 10-17).

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Economy, Environment and Environmental History: Case Notes from Agriculture

Rural History ◽

10.1017/s0956793300001163 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 125-140 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michael Turner

Keyword(s):

International Symposium ◽

Environmental History ◽

Natural World ◽

Great Work ◽

Conservation Movement ◽

Natural Agents ◽

The Earth ◽

Man And Nature ◽

The Face

In 1956 in an international symposium at Princeton on the theme Man's role in changing the face of the Earth, one of the principal contributors, Carl Sauer, reflected that as much as anything it was a festival of remembrance to George Perkins Marsh. Marsh was perhaps the inspiration for viewing man within his natural world, within his ecological setting, but a setting which had evolved as much as anything by the actions of his own hand as it had been by natural agents. Marsh's great work Man and Nature, has been dubbed ‘the fountainhead of the conservation movement.’ Thus Sauer suggests that this study is based on man's:

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On the general circulation of the atmosphere in middle and higher latitudes.

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London ◽

10.1098/rspl.1904.0074 ◽

1905 ◽

Vol 74 (497-506) ◽

pp. 20-30 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

William Napier Shaw

Keyword(s):

High Pressure ◽

General Circulation ◽

The Other ◽

British Isles ◽

Left Hand ◽

The Earth ◽

Other Hand

In the course of an investigation into the trajectories, or actual paths of air, by means of synoptic charts, which is still in progress,* it became apparent that the paths of air taking part in cyclonic disturbances near the British Isles when traced backward did not always originate in anti-cylonic areas, but followed a track skirting the neighbouring high-pressure areas and traversing sometimes a very large part of a belt of the earth in a direction more or less parallel to a line of latitude, and, on the other hand, air moving in the neighbourhood of a cyclonic depression did not invariably seek the nearest barometric minimum, but sometimes passed on, leaving the circulation of the depression on the left hand.

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