CFP: Geography and history: Water under the bridge or a bridge too far? (Panel for the International Conference of Historical Geographers, London, 5-10 July 2015) Convened by Kirsten Greer (Nipissing […]
Portugal’s Cork Industry
This is the 3rd in a series of posts written by recipients of NiCHE New Scholar Travel Grants to attend the World Congress of Environmental History in Guimarães, Portugal. While […]
ICEHO Bulletin 1
The International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations, which hosted the recent World Congress in Portugal, has started up a Bulletin to share information internationally. Bulletin 1 has just been published. […]
CFP / Appel à contributions: European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) 2015
The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) is pleased to invite proposals for sessions, individual papers, roundtables, posters and other, more experimental forms of communicating scholarship for its 2015 biennial […]
Performing our Belonging: A report back from ANU’s 7th biennial Environmental History PhD Writing Workshop
In late May, I travelled to a place on earth almost antipodal to my home in Kingston, Ontario: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. I embarked on this lengthy journey through […]
Review: How Agriculture Made Canada
Reviewed By: Peter Anderson (Queen’s University) Published: The Otter-NiCHE (July 2014) Peter A. Russell, How Agriculture Made Canada: Farming in the Nineteenth Century. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012. […]
Lecture: History of the Ontario Spring Bear Hunt
In 1999, the Ontario Progressive Conservative government abruptly cancelled the spring black bear hunting season amidst growing concerns that the practice was unethical, unsportsmanlike, and was needlessly orphaning bear cubs. […]
Post-CHESS 2014 Reflections: A Rural Historian in the Suburbs
By Sara Spike The suburbs are often characterized as a liminal space—part city, part country. One of the key lessons of this year’s Canadian History and Environment Summer School (CHESS) […]
Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière : l’émergence de la conservation des forêts au Canada
Compte rendu Little, Jack, 2013, Patrician Liberal. The Public and Private Life of Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, 1829-1908, University of Toronto Press, 375 p. Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière est […]
Eating Minerals: Fossil Inputs in 18th Century Agriculture
This is the 2nd in a series of posts written by recipients of a NiCHE New Scholar Travel Grant to attend the World Congress of Environmental History in Guimarães, Portugal. Modern agriculture is energy […]
Why I Love International Conferences
This is the 1st in a series of posts written by recipients of a NiCHE New Scholar Travel Grant to attend the World Congress of Environmental History in Guimarães, Portugal. As we […]
Post-CHESS 2014 Reflections: Park Déjà vu
CHESS’s Saturday excursion into the suburban wilds originated at the Markham Museum, a Toronto suburb located north east of the city. Our visit began with a presentation by two Parks Canada […]
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