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danbrickman wrote a new post, i’ve been dazed and confused, but that’ll work, on the site Readings in Environmental History 2 weeks, 2 days ago
” Wherefore I perceive that their is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works…” Ecclesiastes 9:10
Environmental History. How does it differ from other historic subdisciplines? If the […]
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danbrickman wrote a new post, A contortionists view of Biohistory, on the site Readings in Environmental History 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Like everything “pseudo,” Eric Paulson’s essay on bio-history contains some kernels of intellectual integrity along with a heap of demagoguery. Paulson’s initial assertion, that biology influences history, […]
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danbrickman wrote a new post, Please Do Disturb, on the site Readings in Environmental History 4 weeks, 1 day ago
There is an old cliche that suggests the inevitablity in life of only two things: death and taxes. Perhaps the exchange of people and goods, flora and fauna, and the myriad of possibile outcomes once these new […]
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danbrickman wrote a new post, Out of Africa, on the site Readings in Environmental History 4 weeks, 1 day ago
The indigenous farmers/pasturalists of both the Old and New Worlds have provided local ecological knowledge to invading imperialists, colonizers and traders respectively. The methods by which the European […]
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danbrickman wrote a new post, back to nature, on the site Readings in Environmental History 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Is it easier to prove the merits of new ideas and scholarship or to disprove what has become conventionally held beliefs? Shepard Krech III’s work The Ecological Indian attempts to do the latter. In contrast to […]
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danbrickman wrote a new post, Seeking Balance–Perhaps another time…, on the site Readings in Environmental History 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Are humans part of nature or not? Is nature a holistic organism in perpetual motion towards climax or is it individualistic, competitive and based upon probability? Can humans determine their destiny regardless of […]
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danbrickman wrote a new post, The sanitary struggle, on the site Readings in Environmental History 4 weeks, 1 day ago
One would think that the basic human needs for clean water and an environment cleared of obvious dangers and contaminants could elicit something remotely near a universal spirit of cooperation and agreement. The […]
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danbrickman wrote a new post, Are you a conservative–food consumer that is…, on the site Readings in Environmental History 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Adaptation and change, two of life’s unavoidable processes, are frequently accompanied by the odd pairing of rebelliousness and retrenchment. Donna R. Gabbacia describes the interplay between these two paradoxical […]
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danbrickman wrote a new post, They’d be turning over in their graves…or would they?, on the site Readings in Environmental History 4 weeks, 1 day ago
I wonder what the men credited with “creating Central Park” would say about it’s present state? Just as these men didn’t always share the same visions for the parks placement, size, aesthetic qualities and […]
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