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What is Environmental History?

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

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What is Environmental History?

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  1. What is Environmental History? Anders Öckerman Uppsala University september 04, 2007

  2. The History of History (Myths) (Bible & antiquity) • Early 1800: nation state/high politics romanticism idealism • Mid 1800: historical turn in science • Late 1800: materialism positivism cultural history • Around 1900: source criticism • Early 1900: social history intellectual history • Late 1900: marginal groups

  3. James Ussher (1581-1656)

  4. Christian Jürgensen Thomsen (1788–1865) • Archaelogist/Museologist • Three period system (1818): • Stone Age • Bronze Age • Iron age • Ledetraad til Nordisk Oldkyndighed (1836).

  5. Metaphor:The House of History

  6. 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

  7. Environmental History: sources • Texts • Bio-archives

  8. J R McNeill (2000)

  9. 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…”

  10. George Perkins Marsh (1801-82)

  11. Ecological analysis • Biodiversity • Resilience • Evolutionary theory • Co-evolution • Species strategies • Systems analysis • Community • Competition • Cooperation • Imitation

  12. Shark: specialist Rat: opportunist Species strategies (McNeill)

  13. Ecological analysis:Population dynamics • J-curves • S-curves

  14. EcologicalImperialism Animals Plants Disease

  15. Response to Ecological Crisis • Disaster • Expansion • Linking • Sociotechnical change • Cultural change

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