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 …

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 …

Grave-opening was a shared European practice of possession and knowledge production in
the early Americas, identifying what indigenous peoples believed of the afterlife and what …

Rediscovering soccer's long history in the US Across North America, native peoples and
colonists alike played a variety of kicking games long before soccer's emergence in the late …

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 …

Writing this monograph as a policy and economic historian, an “outsider” to the group that
usually engages in wildlife policy issues, I have been guided by the words of longtime New …

From the 1490s through the 1610s, the English failed more often than they succeeded in
their efforts to explore and colonize the Western Hemisphere. But even when travelers did …

During the seventeenth century the Dutch built a global economic system that depended on
contact and trade with many different peoples and cultures. To create those connections …

The life-size portrait of Martin Frobisher (c. 1535-1594) by Cornelis Ketel (1548-1616) is a
lone relic (fig. 1). Signed with the artist's monogram and dated 1577, it is the only painting by …

In the first years of the sixteenth century mariners from across the European seaboard
created a flourishing commercial cod fishery in the northwest Atlantic. Today known as the …