Manifest Disaster: Climate and the Making of America
Climate had a key role in shaping the settlement and development of the West in the United States, according to Carson Fellow Lawrence Culve...
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Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD
The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) is an international, interdisciplinary center for research and education in environmental humanities located in Munich, Germany. It...
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15 episodesNeurohistory
The intersection between neuroscience and history frames Carson Fellow Edmund P. Russell’s research project. Russell looks as the role of fu...
British Eighteenth-Century Laboring-Class Poets
In a unique approach to exploring transformations in land use, Carson Fellow Anne Milne uses poetry from the laboring class in eighteenth ce...
Nature Conservation: The Influence of American Philosophies on Modern China
How have US American ideas about nature conservation influenced the conception of nature in China? Carson Fellow Hou Shen bases her research...
An Environmental History of Hungary
Carson Fellow Lajos Rácz explains the importance of climate history for the overall history of early modern Hungary. Documented climate data...
An Integrated Environmental History of Watersheds
How have humans changed rivers throughout history, and what issues of social and environmental justice shape human interaction with rivers a...
An Environmental History of the Danube
Carson Fellow Martin Schmid discusses his work on writing the first environmental history of the Danube river; Schmid’s research is part of...
Facing Limits: Abundance, Scarcity, and the American Way of Life
Carson Fellow and environmental historian Donald Worster argues that the discovery of the “New World” in the seventeenth and eighteenth cent...
Fish, Gold, and Cotton: New World Resources in Western Europe
Exposing a phenomenon overlooked by many historians, Carson Fellow Donald Worster explains the importance of New World resources on Western...
Paradigmatic Shifts in Western Europe: The Importance of the New World
Carson Fellow Donald Worster argues that the discovery of the New World dramatically shaped the very idea of freedom; it significantly alter...
Adaptation of Local Knowledge Societies and Systems to Global Change
Carson Fellow and Director of the Global Diversity Foundation Gary Martin examines the cultural implications of conservation designation (i....
Hard Asphalt and Heavy Metals: An Environmental History of the Urban Crisis
Carson Fellow Robert Gioelli highlights how central city residents in the United States dealt with increasing environmental problems in the...
Transforming Socialist Landscape
The transition from socialism to post-socialism has affected many aspects of life in Eastern Europe. By using anthropological participant-ob...
Environmental Mobility History in the Making
Carson Fellow Gijs Mom describes his work on the automobile, which he sees as a vehicle for understanding how people in the early twentieth...
Image Film
Visit the RCC virtually! Shot in Munich, this film outlines the goals of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, highlights th...