Environmental History: Discourses and Disasters

[@RAJAT6555]

This field is one of the most underrated and under-studied fields of history...nice talk!

[@KiranSingh-vs2gt]

That's awesome, I want to be just like them once I grow up! Know so much about the disasters and wanting to change it all before its too late

[@hannah816]

really enjoyed this lecture thank you:) below are some notes i made... Anya Zilberstein and “Fodder for the Empire”, history of food, energy and colonialism, discusses book Omnivore's Dream by Michael Pollan, more info: www.huntington.org/videos-recorded-programs/empowering-appetites - 0:00 Heidi Scott and “Colonialism, Landscape and the Subterranean”, history of mining and environmental discourses, colonial ideas about mining and colonial ideas about the environmental enmeshed, (quote: “interested in showing how colonial ideas of the natural world were enmeshed in significant and surprising ways with discussions that emerged in relation to the mining industry in the 18th century”), more info: www.academia.edu/3619845/_Colonialism_landscape_and_the_subterranean_Geography_Compass_2_6_2008_1853-1869 - 13:50 Mark Molesky and the History of the great "Lisbon Fire", History of fires, literature, more info: failuremag.com/article/the-great-lisbon-earthquake-fire - 26:00 Christopher Pastore and the history of "Narragansett Bay", explores how environmental historians use sources, explores maps (including one by William Faden in 1776) and how maps were used for colonial control and how people construct space, how people understand space and how peoples' understanding of space changes, more info: www.amazon.co.uk/Between-Land-Sea-Atlantic-Transformation/dp/0674281411 - 37:35 Tatiana Seixas and the history of the "Rio Granda Valley" river, explores the role of the river, how the river shaped indigenous trade networks, commerce, how human habitation emerged along the river, how the river has changed, more info: nationalhumanitiescenter.org/seijas-indigenous-trade-early-modern-southwest-mexico/ - 48:10