Controversy over the role of human activity in causing climate change is pervasive in
contemporary society. But, as Anya Zilberstein shows in this work, debates about the politics …

How did the Victorian fixation on the disastrous John Franklin expedition transform our
understanding of the Northwest Passage and the Arctic? Today we still tend to see the Arctic …

When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an
empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through diplomacy, migration, and …

The Cree of Northern Ontario, Canada, have proved resilient and adaptable to social and
environmental changes. However, the rapidity of climate change impacts in the Hudson Bay …

A deeply researched, analytically rich, and vivid account of England's early maritime empire
Drawing on a wealth of understudied sources, historian Eleanor Hubbard explores the labor …

[ES] A comienzos del siglo XVII la Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) pretendía
localizar nuevos enclaves que sirvieran como factorías mercantiles y abrir una vía entre …

This chapter examines the kinds of stories that scholars have been telling about climate
history and indigenous societies in the Americas and Pacific islands. Climate historians …

Environmental history came of age as a distinctive field, with its own journal and
professional association, in the 1970s and 1980s. A disproportionate number of the most …

Dark tourism and battlefield tourism have tended to focus on the social aspects of visits, such
as marketing and interpretation, yet largely ignore the cultural and spiritual dimensions of …

All life as we know it, including our own species, inhabits a planet that rotates on a tilted axis.
Consequently, winter is a reality for organisms that are denizens of the higher latitudes …