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    jdubelko wrote a new post, Environmentalism Section, on the site Readings in Environmental History 2 weeks, 2 days ago

    Here’s a rough draft of an introduction to the section on Environmentalism:

    In a number of environmental histories assigned for reading, students have observed that authors connected the modern day […]

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    jdubelko wrote a new post, Applications Section, on the site Readings in Environmental History 2 weeks, 2 days ago

    Here’s a rough draft to the Introduction to the Applications Section:

    The works of environmental historians often touch the lives of readers in very personal ways. After all, nature, however defined, shapes […]

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    jdubelko wrote a new post, Urban Pollution historiography, on the site Readings in Environmental History 2 weeks, 5 days ago

    If anyone is interested in the historiography of urban pollution, a good article to read is “Urban Pollution: Historical Perspective Needed,” Environmental Review, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Spring 1979). It’s available […]

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    jdubelko wrote a new post, Is Environmentalism the new Opium of the Masses?, on the site Readings in Environmental History 2 weeks, 6 days ago

    “Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the […]

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    jdubelko wrote a new post, Just another Historian beating up on the Modern Day Environmentalism Movement., on the site Readings in Environmental History 3 weeks, 4 days ago

    Andrew Isenberg, author of The Destruction of the Bison doesn’t agree with Richard White’s theory that it was a combination of economic and environmental factors that caused the Plains Indians to enter into the […]

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    jdubelko wrote a new post, The Potato and the East European, on the site Readings in Environmental History 3 weeks, 5 days ago

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    Photo shows the variety of potatoes that originated in Peru.

    The chapters that Crosby devotes to the exchange of fauna and flora between the Old and New Worlds remind us that many of the foods we enjoy […]

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    jdubelko wrote a new post, The Empire’s Balancing Act of Extraction and Conservation., on the site Readings in Environmental History 3 weeks, 5 days ago

    In Environment and Empire, British historians William Beinhart and Lotte Hughes write about the “environment” of the lands of the British Empire as they existed at the start of colonization and then as they […]

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    jdubelko wrote a new post, Giving Credit where Credit is long Overdue., on the site Readings in Environmental History 3 weeks, 5 days ago

    In “In the Shadow of Slavery,” historians Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicolas Rosomoff have created a new narrative regarding agency in the transfers of food animals and plants from Africa to the Americas during […]

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    jdubelko wrote a new post, The “Crying Indian” wouldn’t stampede bison over a cliff, or would he?, on the site Readings in Environmental History 3 weeks, 5 days ago

    ThumbnailThe Crying Indian ad campaign of the 1970s was one of the earliest and most effective public media campaigns in the environmentalism movement. It subtly chastised white America for the damage that its culture had […]

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    jdubelko wrote a new post, Fishing Around, on the site Readings in Environmental History 3 weeks, 5 days ago

    ThumbnailThose of us who grew up in northeast Ohio may find the word “steelhead” as used by Richard White in The Organic Machine familiar.  While White used the word to describe a species of ocean trout that leaves the […]

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    jdubelko wrote a new post, Removing the Social Stigma from the National Parks’ Squatters, Poachers and Thieves, on the site Readings in Environmental History 3 weeks, 5 days ago

    Writing a history of the impact of the Progressive Era national parks movement upon local residents, including Native Americans and White settlers, presents a challenge for any historian.  Most of the evidence of […]

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    jdubelko wrote a new post, Sanitation Systems and Path Dependence Theory, on the site Readings in Environmental History 3 weeks, 5 days ago

    ThumbnailIn The Sanitary City, historian Martin Melosi chronicles the development of waterworks, sewage systems, and landfills in America from the colonial era to the present time.  In the introduction to his book, Melosi […]

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    jdubelko wrote a new post, Controlling Black Bodies . . . in the Name of Science, on the site Readings in Environmental History 3 weeks, 5 days ago

    ThumbnailAt Cleveland State University on March 27, Boston College History Professor Martin Summers delivered a speech entitled, “An Unnatural Association: State Racism and the Soteriological Vision of Health in a […]

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    jdubelko wrote a new post, Chef Boyardee? Is that Italian?, on the site Readings in Environmental History 3 weeks, 5 days ago

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    In We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Foods and the Making of Americans, historian Donna R. Gabaccia chronicles America’s traditional curiosity, as well as fear, of new and exotic foods from Colonial times to the […]

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    jdubelko wrote a new post, New Perspectives on New York Central Park, on the site Readings in Environmental History 3 weeks, 5 days ago

    ThumbnailIn The Park and the People: A History of Central Park, historians Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar constructed a history of the development of New York’s Central Park which provided new perspectives on […]

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    jdubelko wrote a new post, The National Bird of Parma, on the site Readings in Environmental History 3 weeks, 5 days ago

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    In Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America, historian Jennifer Price writes about nature as artifice using stories of nature or nature-like phenomena from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries […]

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    jdubelko commented on the post, Planning the compilation of blog entries, on the site Readings in Environmental History 4 weeks ago

    I’ve gone through all the posts tagged with “example.” There are 5–three of mine in which I related a subject from a book to what was occurring in Cleveland during the same era, and two of John’s. One of John’s […]

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    jdubelko commented on the post, Planning the compilation of blog entries, on the site Readings in Environmental History 4 weeks ago

    To all,

    Please tag any of your blog posts that are “environmentalism” related. I can then organize the tagged posts around an introduction to this theme.

    Remember, we concluded that a post reflected this […]

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    jdubelko wrote a new post, Link to readings for Tuesday – April 24, on the site Readings in Environmental History 1 month ago

    The two articles–Cultures of Nature: Twentieth Century (Ch. 14) and Black Boxes in the Garden (Ch. 16) may be found at:

    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444323610

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    jdubelko commented on the post, Hello world!, on the site Cleveland Sacred Landmarks 7 months, 1 week ago

    Looks great!

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