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Topic: Reading 2 and 3: Cronon and Merchant |
levg
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Forum: US Environmental History Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2020 8:52 pm Subject: obligations to predict the future |
I was especially struck by the John Opie quote “The environmental historian participates in the gulf between the ecological ideal and historical reality, between the two cultures of science and the hu ... |
Topic: Reading 1: Donald Worster's "Doing Environmental Histor |
levg
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Forum: US Environmental History Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 9:04 pm Subject: Do Diseases Count? |
In the second reading, a couple pages (but mostly page 12) discussed the origins of devastating diseases, and the ways in which their existence could be traced back to the environment. In one example, ... |
Topic: Reading 1: Donald Worster's "Doing Environmental Histor |
levg
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Forum: US Environmental History Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 8:30 pm Subject: DINOSAURS? |
Page 5: “Concepts from geology, pushing our notions of history back into the Pleistocene, the Silurian, the Precambrian.” Notably, this is dating back to BEFORE THE DINOSAURS.
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