what is environmental history?
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What is Environmental History?. Anders Öckerman Uppsala University september 04, 2007. The History of History. (Myths) (Bible & antiquity) Early 1800: nation state/high politics romanticism idealism Mid 1800:historical turn in science - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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What is Environmental History?
Anders Öckerman
Uppsala University
september 04, 2007
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The History of History (Myths)(Bible & antiquity) Early 1800: nation state/high politics
romanticismidealism
Mid 1800: historical turn in science Late 1800: materialism
positivismcultural history
Around 1900: source criticism Early 1900: social history
intellectual history Late 1900: marginal groups
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James Ussher (1581-1656)
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Christian Jürgensen Thomsen (1788–1865)
Archaelogist/Museologist
Three period system (1818): Stone Age Bronze Age Iron age
Ledetraad til Nordisk Oldkyndighed (1836).
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Metaphor:The House of History
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Environmental History:Leaving the House
1. The Study of human-nature relationships through time (Encycl. of EH)
2. Three levels: Ecological history Interaction Mental (Worster)
3. Historical method and ecological analysis (Hughes)
4. Normative component
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Environmental History: sources Texts Bio-archives
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J R McNeill (2000)
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In short:
"Man is everywhere a disturbing agent…The ravages committed by man subvert the relations and destroy the balance which nature [has] established..., and [nature] avenges herself upon the intruder by letting loose destructive energies…”
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George Perkins Marsh (1801-82)
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Ecological analysis Biodiversity
Resilience Evolutionary theory
Co-evolution Species strategies
Systems analysis Community
Competition Cooperation Imitation
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Species strategies (McNeill)
Shark: specialist Rat: opportunist
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Ecological analysis:Population dynamics J-curves
S-curves
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EcologicalImperialism
Animals
Plants
Disease
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Response to Ecological Crisis
Disaster Expansion Linking Sociotechnical change Cultural change