This blog entry by Petra van Dam and Piet van Cruyningen introduces an important Special Issue of Environment and History just published, edited by Petra van Dam, Piet van Cruyningen and Milja van Tielhof, and entitled ‘A global comparison of pre-modern institutions for water management’. The issue’s contents may be found here, with links to … More A global comparison of pre-modern institutions for water management

Here Ivan Šulc from the University of Zagreb introduces his Croatian-themed Poster from the recent ESEH Conference: Physical Impacts of Tourism Development in South Dalmatia, Croatia. Environment and History sponsored the Poster Prize and our last blog published the winner. The runner-up will be featured in the coming weeks, but the standard was so high … More ESEH Poster: Physical impacts of tourism development in South Dalmatia, Croatia 

Well, the ESEH conference is over for another two years. It was a splendid occasion, impeccably organised by the local committee. For the first time Environment and History sponsored the Poster Prize. The winner of €100 and a whole lot of glory was Lukas Heinzmann of Bern University: congratulations, Lukas! Here, he introduces his poster, … More The Environment and History Poster Prize – ESEH Zagreb 2017

Dolly Jørgensen (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden; ESEH President) muses on the theme of this year’s ESEH conference – only two weeks to go! – and The White Horse Press’s first ever special virtual edition. The continent of Europe is filled with borders. There are 48 countries (even more if you divide the UK into … More With and without borders

By Saverio Krätli, editor of Nomadic Peoples Nomadic Peoples participated in ‘Mo(u)vement’ (2-6 May, Ottawa, Canada), the joint conference/intercongress of the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) and the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES). The ‘u’ in brackets caters for the bilingual approach of the initiative (English and French). The Commission on Nomadic Peoples … More Mo(u)vement: A Report on Pastoralism Panels at CASCA/IUAES Congress in Ottawa, 2–6 May

It is only 4 weeks until the 2017 ESEH conference in Zagreb begins. We have just launched a free-to-download special virtual edition of Environment and History to reflect the conference’s theme of ‘Natures In Between’. Here, in a piece that also appears in the virtual edition, Marco Armiero, chair of the conference’s Programme Committee, reflects on process of … More Natures In Between – First Virtual Edition of Environment and History

By Dénes Saláta and Péter Szabó In a piece originally published in the ESEH society pages of Environment and History 23(2) (May 2017), the authors describe the current state of environmental history in the Hungarian language. One of the volumes discussed, Lajos Rácz’s The Steppe to Europe, was published in translation by the White Horse Press in … More Environmental history in Hungary, in Hungarian

by Gufu Oba On the eve of the publication of his major new monograph, Gufu Oba considers the genesis and wider import of his work. Herder Warfare in East Africa will be published on 15 May and available from major wholesalers and retails as well as direct from our distributor. Warfare is as ancient as … More HERDER WARFARE IN EAST AFRICA: A SOCIAL AND SPATIAL HISTORY

By Patrick Joseph Klinger. Patrick Joseph Klinger, whose research focuses on environmental and climatic aberrations and their relation to the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707 has an article in the latest issue of Environment and History (23.2, May 2017) entitled ‘Weather and the Jacobite Rebellion of 1719′.  Recently, Geoffrey Parker and Sam White have demonstrated the importance of climatic and environmental change … More The Climate of Union: The Decline of the North Sea Scottish Herring Fishing Industry 1660–1707