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HIST 100T PO - Global Environmental Histories


CrsNo HIST100T PO

When Offered: Each spring.

Instructor(s): P.Chu

This seminar explores different approaches to environmental history, from classic works by Alfred Crosby and James Scott to more recent scholarship, focusing on diverse ways of telling stories about people and nature. Our readings highlight the environmental consequences of industrialization, imperialism, and totalitarianism; human and “natural” disasters; the emergence of the environmental sciences; and conservation and environmental politics in non-US contexts. (Europe since the Renaissance)



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