Nature’s Past Episode 13 – click to play | right click, ‘save as’ to download
On this episode of the podcast, we feature a preview discussion about a round-table panel for next week’s ASEH meeting called “Urbs in Horto: New Directions in Urban Environmental History”. Matthew Klingle, Ellen Stroud, Karl Appuhn, and Sean Kheraj sit down to discuss new developments in the field of urban environmental history and invite listeners to post comments or questions. Please let us know what you think.
Also, John Sandlos and Arn Keeling stop by to talk about their new project on abandoned mines in the Canadian North. This project examines the social and environmental consequences of large-scale mining operations for local Aboriginal people in northern Canada.
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Works Cited:
- Sean Kheraj, Canadian History & Environment
- 2010 American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting Program
- Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W.W. Norton, 1991.
- Careless, J.M.S. “Frontierism, Metropolitanism, and Canadian History.” Canadian Historical Review 35, no. 1 (1954): 1-21.
- Stroud, Ellen. “Does Nature Always Matter? Following Dirt through History.” History and Theory 42, no. 4 (2004): 75-81.
- Appuhn, Karl. A Forest on the Sea: Environmental Expertise in Renaissance Venice Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
- Klingle, Matthew. Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
- Abandoned Mines in Northern Canada Project
Music Credits:
- Matthew Klingle
- Ellen Stroud
- Karl Appuhn
- John Sandlos
- Arn Keeling
Kheraj, Sean. “Episode 13: New Directions in Urban Environmental History & Abandoned Mines.” Nature’s Past. 3 March 2010.

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