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pking wrote a new post, book update-Race, Class, Gender, on the site Readings in Environmental History 4 weeks ago
Okay, so here are the list of post I determined belonged primarily in my catagory. If there are any objections now is the time to tell me.
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pking wrote a new post, Following the footsteps of White, on the site Readings in Environmental History 1 month ago
The book, Crimes against Nature, by Karl Jacoby reminds me strongly of Richard White. Jocoby seems to be an environmentalist himself, yet the book is not critical of those who despoil the environment. Rather the […]
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pking wrote a new post, Reconnecting Food with Nature, on the site Readings in Environmental History 1 month ago
When I first began reading this book I had trouble seeing the point of it. Was the author simply tracing the origin of various foods? However, as I continued to read I was struck by the realization of just how […]
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pking wrote a new post, The meaning of Environmental History, on the site Readings in Environmental History 1 month ago
The Park and the People: A History of Central Park by Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar is a comprehensive history of the creation of Central Park. The book brought up many issues and from the […]
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pking wrote a new post, So do we know what nature is yet?, on the site Readings in Environmental History 1 month ago
Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America by Jennifer Price, attempts something that we have been trying to do all semester: to define nature. What is nature? What do we mean when we say we want to […]
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pking wrote a new post, Whose fault is it?, on the site Readings in Environmental History 1 month ago
In previous books that made reference to the Bison, it is insinuated that the Indians were at fault. After all, it was they who hunted the Bison down and they who used such cruel hunting techniques as chasing a […]
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pking wrote a new post, History and Philosophy, on the site Readings in Environmental History 1 month ago
I would argue that The Organic Machine by Richard White is more a book of philosophy than one of history. Though it did convey the history of the Columbia River, the river was simply a tool to illustrate the […]
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pking wrote a new post, Is it Racist?, on the site Readings in Environmental History 1 month ago
Is it racist to be suspicious when a white scholar writes a book designed to prove that a non-white race is not as righteous or compassionate as people would believe? I feel it is appropriate to discuss motives, […]
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pking wrote a new post, Does the environment determine Empire or does the Empire determine the environment?, on the site Readings in Environmental History 1 month ago
Between the books, Columbian Exchange and Environment and Empire a connection is made between the European colonization efforts and the environment. Columbian Exchange focused on how the Spanish changed the […]
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pking wrote a new post, The African Exchange, on the site Readings in Environmental History 1 month ago
In The Shadow of slavery, might have been better named “The African Exchange,” as it is very much the African version of the “Columbian Exchange.” Just as many of the plant native to America are eaten regularly in […]
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pking wrote a new post, The Columbian Exchange and European Superiority, on the site Readings in Environmental History 1 month ago
The Columbian Exchange by Alfred Crosby makes the case that the most important consequence of Christopher Columbus’s journey was biological more than political or social, beginning a transfer of plant and animal […]
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