Beyond the organic machine? New approaches in river historiography

M Evenden - Environmental History, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
This article considers the growth of river historiography in environmental history and the
influence of foundational works, with a particular focus on Richard White's The Organic …

A rapid review of recreational, cultural, and environmental meanings of water for Australian river communities

H Downey, E Spelten, K Holmes… - Society & Natural …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
While many studies have explored the value of water, little is known concerning the meaning
of water for Australian river communities. This rapid literature review provides an overview of …

Race, space, and electric power: Jim Crow and the 1934 North Carolina rural electrification survey

C Harrison - Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Some scholars have recently put forward the concept of energopower—the harnessing of
electricity and fuel—as a way to rethink the energetic basis of biopower. In this article, I …

The power and ethics of vernacular modernism: The Misicuni Dam Project in Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1944–2017

S Hines - Hispanic American Historical Review, 2018 - read.dukeupress.edu
This article traces the Misicuni dam project, which promised to solve water scarcity in the
Central Valley of Cochabamba, Bolivia. First proposed in the 1940s, the project captured the …

[图书][B] Reconsidering Regions in an Era of New Nationalism

A Finkelstein, AF Hyde - 2023 - books.google.com
Regions connect and divide us even as global economies, weather, and germs batter us.
Historians, literary scholars, and social scientists use region to ground and challenge ideas …

Paying for energy

BR Huber - Energy Law and Economics, 2018 - Springer
The energy sector is amid an expensive transformation, especially in the United States and
Europe. As aging coal and nuclear power plants are replaced by natural gas and renewable …

Watershed Democracy: Rural Environmentalism and the Battle Against the TVA in Western North Carolina, 1965–1972

BE Stewart, CJ Manganiello - Environmental History, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
Scholars have overlooked the role that rural southerners played in the 1960s environmental
movement. The prevailing narratives chronicle the post-1945 activities of American white …

Introduction Environment

C Hamilton, Y Gunaratnam - Feminist Review, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
When we decided upon the broad theme for this issue we toyed with different terms.
Inevitably, given its current cachet in the environmental humanities,'Anthropocene'came up …

[图书][B] From Swamp to Wetland: The Creation of Everglades National Park

C Wilhelm - 2022 - books.google.com
This book chronicles the creation of Everglades National Park, the largest subtropical
wilderness in the United States. This effort, which spanned 1928 to 1958, was of central …

Risk, doubt, and the biological control of southern waters

AC Baker - Environmental History, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
The late twentieth-century American South hosted a thriving lakefront development industry.
The arrival of the invasive aquatic plant hydrilla in reservoirs across the region during the …