Comps Notes: Reinaldo Funes Monzote’s From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba

I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012. The full collection is accessible here.  From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History since 1492 Reinaldo Funes Monzote …

Comps Notes: Donahue’s The Great Meadow

I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012. The full collection is accessible here.  The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord Brian Donahue Brian …

Comps Notes: Stewart’s “What Nature Suffers to Groe”

I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012.  The full collection is accessible here.  “What Nature Suffers to Groe”: Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680-1920 …

Comps Notes: Owram’s Promise of Eden

I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012.  The full collection is accessible here.  Promise of Eden: The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the Idea of the West, …

Comps Notes: White’s Land Use, Environment, and Social Change

I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012.  The full collection is accessible here.  Land Use, Environment, and Social Change: The Shaping of Island County, Washington Richard …

Comps Notes: Cronon’s Changes in the Land

I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012.  The full collection is accessible here.  Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England William Cronon …

Comps Notes: Frederick Jackson Turner’s “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”

I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012.  The full collection is accessible here.  “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” Frederick Jackson Turner “The Significance …

Comps Notes: Nash’s Inescapable Ecologies

I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012.  The full collection is accessible here.  Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge1 Linda Nash In Inescapable Ecologies: …

Comps Notes: Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel

I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012.  The full collection is accessible here.  Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies Jared Diamond In Guns, Germs, …

Comps Notes: Pyne’s Fire in America

I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012.  The full collection is accessible here.  Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire by Stephen …