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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 20h

New open access article! In "The Contradictions of Dam Building in the People's Republic of China," the authors examine tensions between the PRC's limited capacities and promethean visions of taming China's rivers in the mid-20th century. Read it here: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️

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Lucie Rondeau du Noyer @lucienoyer.bsky.social · 4d

Je reposte car il y a ✨un article sur l'expertise autour des barrages en Inde coloniale et post-coloniale✨

Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 4d

Issue 31.4 of Environment and History is out now! This special issue entitled "Dam Scientists: The limits of scientific knowledge and environmentalism" features 6 research articles, 2 snapshots, and 3 book reviews. Read online here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/31... #envhist🗃️

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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 4d

Issue 31.4 of Environment and History is out now! This special issue entitled "Dam Scientists: The limits of scientific knowledge and environmentalism" features 6 research articles, 2 snapshots, and 3 book reviews. Read online here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/31... #envhist🗃️

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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 13d

In "The Contested History of the Ecological Indian Trope," Larsen revisits the 1990s scholarly debate over the ‘Ecological Indian’ as a pivotal moment in the history of Indigenous knowledge among anthropologists and conservation scientists. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3... #envhist 🗃️

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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 13d

2 new ahead-of-print articles out now! In "Wildlife Corridors," Felten-Kury explores the interplay between imperial infrastructure, environmental dynamics and animal mobilities in colonial Southeast Asia. #envhist 🗃️https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/whpeh.63861480345877

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 15d

We have a new blog post. Rithma Kreie Engelbreth Larsen interrogates the history of the ‘Ecological Indian’ trope and the surrounding debate – a discussion complementing her just-published article in 'Environment and History': whitehorsepress.blog/2025/09/25/e... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhum

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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · Aug 18

Reminder: come chat with us and learn more about publishing in E&H Tuesday or Thursday at #eseh2025! We’ll be at the WHP stand in the main university building. #envhist @whitehorsepress.bsky.social

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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · Aug 11

Interested in contributing to E&H or want to learn more about the process? Come see us next week at ESEH in Uppsala! We'll be hosting two "meet the editors" sessions at the WHP @whitehorsepress.bsky.social stand. #envhist

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · Aug 11

If you're attending #ESEH in Uppsala next week, you are warmly welcome to come along to one of the informal 'Meet the Editors' sessions held by the editors of 'Environment and History', at the WHP table. More info in the attached flyer. @eseh.bsky.social @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist

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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · Aug 7

New open access ahead-of-print article! In "A Fishy Tale of the Nuclear Power Plant Never Built in Estonia," Kati Lindström and Achim Klüppelberg explore the envirotechnical history of nuclear development at Lake Võrtsjärv. Read it here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... #envhist

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · Aug 3

We're very pleased indeed to see research first published in 'Environment and History' making waves on BBC News – it was the third most read article on the BBC's UK news website as of this morning! @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist

Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · Aug 3

Research by Harrison Croft on the story of Winston Churchill's dead platypus, first published as a Snapshot in Environment and History, made it to the front page of the BBC website today! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #envhist

How the mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was finally solved - BBC News

The platypus was a top secret gift from Australia, found dead in his enclosure as war raged in the seas around him.

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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · Aug 3

Research by Harrison Croft on the story of Winston Churchill's dead platypus, first published as a Snapshot in Environment and History, made it to the front page of the BBC website today! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #envhist

How the mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was finally solved - BBC News

The platypus was a top secret gift from Australia, found dead in his enclosure as war raged in the seas around him.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · Jul 14

For my #PlasticPeople, there's an article on the plastic bag by Nils Johansson

Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · Jul 7

Environment & History 31.3 is live! This issue includes five new articles as well as two open-access snapshots. Read here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications...

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Rebecca Altman, PhD @rebecca-altman.bsky.social · Jul 15

Here’s the @eandhwhp.bsky.social link on new plastic bag #envhist from Nils Johansson — develops R&D, early adoption of plastic carrier bags in Sweden, adding to the impt work from Johan Hagberg, Andrea Westermann
h/t @elsadevienne.bsky.social

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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · Jul 12

In "Water, Race and Power," Kristin Brig-Ortiz analyzes the intersections among these dynamics in the context of British water management in South Africa. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...

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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · Jul 12

Two new ahead-of-print articles are live now! In "Translating Algae Into Policy," Adam Sundberg examines the late 20th century discovery of Gymnodinium catenatum and other toxic plankton in Tasmania & the subsequent scientific and policy impacts. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...

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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · Jul 12

Quick reminder that the most recent issue is now available! #envhist

Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · Jul 7

Environment & History 31.3 is live! This issue includes five new articles as well as two open-access snapshots. Read here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications...

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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · Jul 7

Environment & History 31.3 is live! This issue includes five new articles as well as two open-access snapshots. Read here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications...

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Eugenio Fernández Vázquez @eugeniofv.bsky.social · Jun 18

Los árboles cargan consigo nuestra historia y su sombra es un "lugar de memoria", como los que describió Pierre Nora. Este artículo de @herrbund.bsky.social en @eandhwhp.bsky.social lo cuenta muy bien. #envhist #envhum #arboles #historia www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

Monumental Trees, or the Phenomenological Guardians of the Landscape | Environment and History

If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Simply select your manager software from the list below and click Download.

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · Jun 6

BBC History Extra have adapted Richard Jones' recent article in 'Environment and History' for a more general readership. Online here for anyone interested in 'The battle over the 19th-century excrement explosion': www.historyextra.com/period/victo... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist #night-soil

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · Apr 30

We've posted a new item on our blog, in which Sandra Swart focuses on the ESEH NEXTGATe teams support for early career scholars. Online here: whitehorsepress.blog/2025/04/30/n... @esehnextgate.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist

ESEH NOTEPAD. NEXTGATe REPORT BACK

This blog, arranged by Sandra Swart, was first published in Environment and History as the ESEH Notepad, February 2025. It focuses on the ESEH NEXTGATe team which supports early career scholars. In…

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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · May 2

New open access ahead-of-print article! In "The Long Shadow of the Pines," Santiago Gorostiza analyses the 20th-century transformation of the political meaning attached to urban green spaces in Madrid's University City. Read here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... #envhist

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Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social · Apr 17

I love me a good article on "dung hill schemes" and "excremental flows".

Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · Apr 17

2 new ahead-of-print articles available now!

In "Excremental Flows," Richard Jones explores Manchester's waste infrastructure crisis in the 1890s in the context of broader Victorian conceptualisations of waste flows.

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Excremental Flows: Manchester Corporation’s ‘Dung Hill Scheme’ and the Rampton Manor Estate, Nottinghamshire, 1892 | Environment and History

With high population densities and concentrated industry, towns and cities generate vast quantities of waste. Maintaining the flow of waste, especially excremental matter, away from these centres to areas of final disposal or dispersal, is an essential ...

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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · Apr 17

In a new article, Joseph Seeley explores North Korea's West Sea Barrage, a 1980s project that was part of a broader effort to "remake" nature in a triumph of human will and engineering.

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Remaking Nature at North Korea’s West Sea Barrage | Environment and History

In 1981 the North Korean government announced ‘four great nature remaking projects’ to help the country achieve economic and agricultural self-sufficiency. The cornerstone of these efforts was a concrete seawall and assemblage of dams, locks and sluice ...

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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · Apr 17

2 new ahead-of-print articles available now!

In "Excremental Flows," Richard Jones explores Manchester's waste infrastructure crisis in the 1890s in the context of broader Victorian conceptualisations of waste flows.

liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

Excremental Flows: Manchester Corporation’s ‘Dung Hill Scheme’ and the Rampton Manor Estate, Nottinghamshire, 1892 | Environment and History

With high population densities and concentrated industry, towns and cities generate vast quantities of waste. Maintaining the flow of waste, especially excremental matter, away from these centres to areas of final disposal or dispersal, is an essential ...

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