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Stephanie Swinehart wrote a new post, Food intro – 1st attempt, on the site Readings in Environmental History 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Food – fuel, delicacy, livelihood, staple, plants, animals, pasteurized, processed, organic, GMO – these are just some of the things individuals may think of when they hear the word. Most Americans do not know […]
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Stephanie Swinehart wrote a new post, Posts that I would like Considered…, on the site Readings in Environmental History 3 weeks, 5 days ago
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Stephanie Swinehart wrote a new post, Food Category, on the site Readings in Environmental History 4 weeks ago
Here is the current list of posts for food under consideration:
Are you a conservative-food consumer that is…
Chef Boyardee? Is that Italian?
Food Glorious Food! Hot (antibiotic filled) sausage and […]
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Stephanie Swinehart wrote a new post, St. Olga Street, Tremont, on the site U.S. Urban History 4 weeks ago
Originally owned by St. Joseph’s Convent of the Augustine Sisters, the twelve-acre property, part of which would house St. Olga Street, was purchased by the parish of St. Theodosius in 1902. The priest, Father […] -
Stephanie Swinehart wrote a new post, Lots of Lox, on the site Readings in Environmental History 4 weeks ago
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Stephanie Swinehart wrote a new post, Flora, Fauna and Montezuma’s Revenge? Maybe…not?, on the site Readings in Environmental History 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Crosby’s The Columbian Exchange had many points that I personally found interesting. Crosby lays the groundwork with an description of prevailing thought about Native American’s and the natural world. The […]
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Stephanie Swinehart wrote a new post, The “Natural” Control of Nature, on the site Readings in Environmental History 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Environment and Empire by William Beinart and Lotte Hughes looks at environmental themes throughout the British Empire. Themes ranging from economic, how nature change under human hands, the attempts of […]
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Stephanie Swinehart wrote a new post, The Destruction of the Bison, on the site Readings in Environmental History 4 weeks, 1 day ago
The focus of The Destruction of the Bison is the interactions between ecology, economy and culture that led to the near extinction of the bison. This book tells the story of how the bison established themselves […] -
Stephanie Swinehart wrote a new post, The Weeping Rural New Yorker??, on the site Readings in Environmental History 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Karl Jacoby’s Crimes Against Nature is the story of what happens when conservation meets traditional practices which are made illegal almost over night. As I was reading the first chapters on the Adirondacks, I […] -
Stephanie Swinehart wrote a new post, Privatization of Services: Mayor Don Plusquellic and Akron’s Sewers, on the site Readings in Environmental History 4 weeks, 1 day ago
The Sanitary City by Martin Melosi discusses services and service delivery. He views it from an national perspective and a looks at how the 19th c. English sanitation impacted the United States. Melosi […]
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Stephanie Swinehart wrote a new post, Food, Glorious Food! Hot (antibiotic filled) sausage and (genetically modified) mustard! Wait – what??, on the site Readings in Environmental History 4 weeks, 1 day ago
The song “Food, Glorious Food” is from the soundtrack Oliver! (musical adaptation of the Charles Dickens Classic Oliver Twist) is a song sung by boys and girls working in the orphanage/workhouse. They sing […]
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Stephanie Swinehart wrote a new post, The Park: Who’s Is It Anyway?, on the site Readings in Environmental History 4 weeks, 1 day ago
In The Park and the People, Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar discuss Central park in terms of its environment and the people who helped create it. In their introduction, Rosenzweig and Blackmar make it […]
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Stephanie Swinehart wrote a new post, Nature According to Disney, on the site Readings in Environmental History 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Steamboat Willie
If Walter Elias Disney could see what his empire became after his death, I am sure that he would look upon it with some pride and wonder. Considering, however, that Walt made his first […] -
Stephanie Swinehart wrote a new post, War on the Environment and What to do When the Cinnabar Doesn’t Work, on the site Readings in Environmental History 1 month ago
Using historical geography, local information, poetry and beliefs system of nature, Mark Elvin’s An Environmental History of China reconstructs Imperial China to answer the question: why humans interacted with […]
