Niagara Falls has frozen. Well, not really. The entire water flow of the famous Horseshoe Falls doesn’t actually freeze, despite ‘polar vortexes’ (more commonly known to most Canadians as ‘winter’). Water […]
Environmental History of China’s Multiple Tea Trades: Peter Perdue, Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture, 2014
Last year, Professor Peter Perdue visited York University to deliver the 2014 Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture in Environmental History. His lecture titled, “Mountains, Caravans, Rivers, and Salons: China’s Multiple Tea Trades,” explored […]
A Personal Journey to Understanding Space, Race, and Environmental Justice in Boston
In 1983, at five years old, my family and I moved closer to the town square in a suburb just outside of Boston. An older boy stalking the street looking […]
2015 Canadian History and Environment Summer School, Ottawa: Environmental Capital
(français) NiCHE, the Network in Canadian History and the Environment, is pleased to announce that the ninth Canadian History and Environment Summer School will be held in Ottawa from Friday […]
Visiting Scholar Opportunity at Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies
ROBARTS CENTRE VISITORSHIP IN CANADIAN STUDIES Thanks to the generosity of President emerita Lorna Marsden, the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies is delighted to announce a new visitorship programme. Researchers working […]
One Flew Over The City: Sensorial Experiences of Urban Space
“Plan Wathelet PAS QUESTION!” screamed the little yellow signs. They were taped to practically every window of the quiet Brussels street that my family and I had moved into late […]
Outils et ressources numériques sur le web
Comme première chronique de 2015, je vous propose un petit tour d’horizon de sites web francophones – avec quelques écarts! – offrant des outils et ressources numériques qui peuvent être […]
Review of Policy Research – Special Issue: Transboundary Natural Resource Governance in North America
NiCHErs might be interested in the recently released (January 2015) special issue of the Review of Policy Research on transboundary natural resource governance in North America. This issue is currently […]
#EnvHist Worth Reading: January 2015
Every month I carefully track the most popular and significant environmental history articles, videos, audio, and other items making their way through the online environmental history (#envhist) community. Also check […]
Dislocated Landscapes: The Motor Car and Social Inequality in the Cultural Realm
I have come to think of my dissertation as a reflection of my way of seeing, both now, and in the past. As a daughter of Canada’s Motor City—Oshawa, Ontario—I was […]
“Defiled at once, and sanctified by contact”: Anna Brownell Jameson and Visual/Textual Tourism
Anna Brownell Jameson, like others of her class in the mid-1830s, was at pains to extricate herself from the common views and viewing habits of the nineteenth-century tourist. In many […]
Lake Abitibi Revisited
As a Master’s student at Carleton University in Ottawa, Environmental History appeared to me as something of a revelation. Here was a discipline that combined the scope and grandeur of […]
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