What is environmental history? It is a kind of history that seeks understanding of human
beings as they have lived, worked, and thought in relationship to the rest of nature through …

Global history has become the business of more than just historians. This paper explores the
history of scientific historiography, particularly a recent initiative of the Global Change …

Since the 1960s, one of the great strengths of social history has been its willingness to
respond to contemporary concerns. However, as environmental issues have pushed their …

This review article focuses on scholarship that lies at the intersection of histories of climate
and British settler colonization in Australia and New Zealand. It first discusses the role of …

Among professional historians most of the influential innovations of the twentieth century
originated in Europe. Italians launched microhistory. Britons developed an anthropological …

The environmental instability that marked the WWII drought profoundly shaped human lives.
Integrating gender and environmental history, this article investigates the emotional, sensory …

Research into the environmental impacts of gold rushes has tended to be limited, with only a
small number of broad descriptive studies. This article provides a new approach in three …

Historical geography has long considered its main business to be the complex relations
between people and environment. Baker (2003: 72) notes for instance that 'The differential …

In recent decades, Indigenous histories have been increasingly significant and growing
areas of historical research in white settler societies such as Australia and New Zealand …