This is the fifty-eighth post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (April 2 – April 8, 2018): Sunday #Wordcloud! Ice, Wolves, Sheet https://t.co/fFxQ57Nd4o #envhist …
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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: …
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University, Canada, Canadian
This is the fifty-sixth post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (March 19 – March 25, 2018): "…when the original Trans Mountain [pipeline] was …
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, …
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University, One, World
This is the fifty-fifth post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (March 12 – March 18, 2018): New Comment: Teaching the Environmental History of …
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 …
Weather, New, History
This is the fifty-fourth post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (March 5 – March 11, 2018): The Snowpocalypse (aka the Great Blizzard …
Environmental, Will, Pipeline
This is the fifty-second post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (February 19 – February 25, 2018): 🚨Red flag 🚨Contractors hired for MVP construction have …
Comps Notes: Kiple’s The Caribbean Slave: A Biological 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 Caribbean Slave: A Biological History Kenneth F. Kiple Alfred Crosby places a great …
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Comps Notes: Melville’s A Plague of Sheep
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. A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico Elinor G.K. Melville …
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Jessica M. DeWitt: Editing and Consulting 