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…I drove the perimeter. It was hard not to think of my great-grandfather, born in Galacia/Austro-Hungarian Poland, and who fled to avoid conscription in the years before WWI. Had he not left, would I be here? 5/x
But here’s why I’m really telling you all this: After it was cotton mill, but before it became condos, it was — no, I’m not kidding… 6/x 
…A Tupperware Factory — called b/c of cite legacy a Tupperware Mill! (I guess plastics history — like plastics themselves— is all around us). The address is now: One Tupperware Drive. Clip from 1965 film, The Wonderful World of Tupperware. #envhist #plasticpollutiin 7/x
This week — after yrs of research, contemplation, COVID-delays — I *finally* visited the RI cotton mill where my great-grandfather labored during WWII. It sits along the Blackstone River, which had powered the US Industrial Revolution🧵 #envhist #PlasticPollution 1/x
Built in 1904 by the Blackstone Cotton Co — eventually owned by Lonsdale, tied to Brown & Ives, Brown—the family that built Triangle Trade ships and benefactor to Brown U., The mill closed shortly after my great-grandfathered signed his over-45 draft card. 2/x
The mill is now condos — but there were artifacts in the lobby. Gears and spools of wound gray (I presume?) cotton thread. Roaming the lobby, it brought to mind my favorite @JoniTevis essay —Warp + Weft. 3/x
We are proud to present the next issue (Number 3, July 2022) of Technology and Culture, the leading journal in the history of technology; it draws on scholarship in diverse disciplines to publish insightful pieces intended for general readers and specialists. Let's review!
In following weeks and months we'll highlight each article more specifically and connect authors and communities on twitter when possible but this thread will be a general roundup of it all for the general #histSTM #STS #envhist #history #digitalsts #computing #mediastudies crowd
Kirill Chunikhin opens with a reflection on the cover of the July 2022 issue in "Establishing Eye Contact with One Historical Photograph"
muse.jhu.edu/article/859717
muse.jhu.edu/article/859717
Hier, j'ai présenté une partie de mes travaux aux Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, à travers le sujet suivant : "Refuser la laideur et l'empoisonnement. Une autre histoire de l'industrialisation dans le Nord de la France (1810 - années 1860)". Résumé en 25 tweets #envhist 1/25
Aujourd'hui, nous sommes très largement conscients des atteintes que nous portons à l’environnement et donc de la nécessité de le préserver. Mais on se tromperait en croyant que cette conscience est récente. 2/25
Si le réchauffement climatique et l’effondrement de la biodiversité sont des enjeux réellement inédits pour l’espèce humaine, le rejet de la pollution et de la détérioration de l’environnement a une longue histoire, dans laquelle l'industrialisation occupe une place majeure. 3/25
Suite et fin du débunkage de l'imposture intellectuelle Rochedy.
Venons-en maintenant à ce que Julien Rochedy dit de la Révolution française.
Venons-en maintenant à ce que Julien Rochedy dit de la Révolution française.
Il prétend que celle-ci a été déclenchée par la philosophie des Lumières. Là encore, il cède à l'interprétation hyper-idéaliste de l'histoire et fait comme si des concepts pouvaient engendrer par eux-mêmes des bouleversements historiques.
En 1789, le peuple ne s'est pas soulevé après avoir lu le "Contrat social", mais d'abord parce qu'il avait le ventre vide, à cause de mauvaises récoltes successives, elles-mêmes dépendant d'un climat dégradé (coucou à la team #EnvHist).
With #ASEH2022 starting today, we’re highlighting some of our recent and upcoming environmental history titles in this thread. Read free chapters for a few and save 30% on titles listed and more with code AAFLYG6. Visit our website for more titles: global.oup.com/academic/categ… 1/17
‘The Wretched Atom’ is a ground-breaking narrative of how the United States offered the promise of nuclear technology to the developing world and its gamble that other nations would use it for peaceful purposes.
Read the introduction here: oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/o… 2/17
Read the introduction here: oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/o… 2/17
Jennifer Eaglin’s ‘Sweet Fuel’ examines the political, environmental, and social ramifications of Brazil's ethanol industry and considers the historical environmental and social costs that come along with alternative fuel industries. 3/17 global.oup.com/academic/produ…
Today, to complement @NiCHE_Canada's reading list on the #envhist of (settler) colonialism, here's a deep-cut thread: 10 more readings, each of which pairs well with one reading on our original list.
Haven't read our post yet? Bookmark this thread for later! 🤓 #cdnhist
Haven't read our post yet? Bookmark this thread for later! 🤓 #cdnhist
1) We recommended James Daschuk's Canadian bestseller Clearing the Plains.
Pair it with George Colpitts's Pemmican Empire, which examines food, imperialism/colonialism, and Indigenous-settler relations on the Prairies in the same era. cambridge.org/core/books/pem…
Pair it with George Colpitts's Pemmican Empire, which examines food, imperialism/colonialism, and Indigenous-settler relations on the Prairies in the same era. cambridge.org/core/books/pem…
2) We recommended Sarah Carter's Imperial Plots, a multiple award-winning history of Prairie women farmers and ranchers.
Pair it with Cheryl Troupe's dissertation on Métis women's food harvesting & land tenure in the Qu'Appelle Valley from 1850 to 1950. harvest.usask.ca/handle/10388/1…
Pair it with Cheryl Troupe's dissertation on Métis women's food harvesting & land tenure in the Qu'Appelle Valley from 1850 to 1950. harvest.usask.ca/handle/10388/1…
Got up at 3:50 am for our #STREAMS2021 roundtable and then had MAJOR technical problems and couldn’t present my statement. So I’m going to tweet it. 🤷🏼♀️ #envhum
I describe myself as an environmental historian, editor, and digital communications strategist.
I received my BA in history from Bethany College (WV) and my MA in history from the University of Rochester. #STREAMS2021 #envhum
I received my BA in history from Bethany College (WV) and my MA in history from the University of Rochester. #STREAMS2021 #envhum
I moved to Canada for my doctoral program. I earned my PhD in History from @usaskhist in 2019. My dissertation was a comparative history of provincial parks in Canada and state parks in the United States from 1890-1890. #STREAMS2021 #envhum
Sunday Word Cloud!
Environmental, Will, Imperial
jessicamdewitt.com/2021/08/01/env…
#envhist #envhum #history #twitterstorians #academia #anthropocene #architecture #bookreview #climatechange #globalhistory #histreligion #puertorico #science #anthrotwitter #animalstudies #STS
Environmental, Will, Imperial
jessicamdewitt.com/2021/08/01/env…
#envhist #envhum #history #twitterstorians #academia #anthropocene #architecture #bookreview #climatechange #globalhistory #histreligion #puertorico #science #anthrotwitter #animalstudies #STS
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"will"
'Afforestation and greening of Samjiyon City, Ryanggang Province has been done beautifully...' #NorthKorea #foresthist #envhist rodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?s…
'...Lots of white birch, picea Koraiensis and syringa amurensis loved so much by Chairman Kim Jong Il were planted around his statue and in the area of Kwangmyongsong-dong...'
'...They help the city preserve its sublimity as the sacred place of the sun and its characteristics as the mountainous city at the center of the natural forests of Mt Paektu...'
In our undergraduate courses BA History, BA History joint honours, and BA History with languages you can study a wide range of exciting modules on different aspects of modern and contemporary history. Keep an eye on this thread to see what we have on offer!
In your first year, you will have modules that cover the basic groundwork of British, European and Twentieth Century history. One of them is Modern Britain, 1760-2000!
In your second year, you will be able to select modules according to your own interests, but you will also do "The Historian's Craft", in which you will meet all the History team for different sessions and which will prepare you for the dissertation
#rodong reports on a certain North American arboreal import to #NorthKorea as Pyongyang's Academy of Forest Science shows love for Aronia Melanocarp ('black chokeberry') rodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?s…
'Aronia Melanocarpa, tree proven excellent for health, have been planted in over 550 hectares of land across the country in the spring tree planting period...'
'...Researchers of the Economic Forest Institute of the Academy of Forest Science, following their success in the study of markedly shortening the production cycle and boosting the rooting rate, tackled the problems arising in the application of the achievements...'
#lumbernews 'forestry and mine lumber production stations of Ryanggang Province are all out to produce lumber in time for the dwellings under construction in Pyongyang for 10,000 families...' #NorthKorea rodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?s…
'...Ryanggang Provincial Forestry Management Bureau detailedly arranges for cut lumber to be successively carried from one section to another section in real earnest and sent to a railway station by vehicle without delay...'
'...workers and management of Phungso Forestry Station apply rational methods to their lumber carriage and operate their bulldozers and tractors at great capacity to successively transport the lumber of their own mass-producing from one section to another section with success...'
Today I realized a childhood dream by becoming lead author of an article in @nature. It coins a new term – the “History of Climate and Society” (HCS) – to refer to the interdisciplinary study of the past impacts of #ClimateChange on people. #EnvHist 1/11 nature.com/articles/s4158…
It offers a critique of the field as it has been pursued to date, presents a new research framework for HCS, and shows how the application of that framework can permit new scholarship into the resilience of populations that faced modest, pre-industrial climate change. 2/11
It then identifies five “pathways” that allowed populations to endure and even exploit these changes. I hope that this publication will encourage HCS scholars to explore more diverse consequences of climate changes on past populations - beyond the rise and fall of societies. 3/11
We've got a tie this week, which means we have to have a #topgif tiebreaker! Options and poll below. #poll
#envhist #envhum
#envhist #envhum
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Sunday Word Cloud!
People, Justice, Environmental
jessicamdewitt.com/2021/02/07/peo…
#envhist #envhum #history #twitterstorians #activism #africa #agriculture #ancienthistory #blackhistory #climatechange #environmentaljustice #india #latamhist #latinamerica #podcast #uspoli
People, Justice, Environmental
jessicamdewitt.com/2021/02/07/peo…
#envhist #envhum #history #twitterstorians #activism #africa #agriculture #ancienthistory #blackhistory #climatechange #environmentaljustice #india #latamhist #latinamerica #podcast #uspoli
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"justice"
Two centuries of energy transitions in one animated graphic: see how U.S. energy use has changed from 1800 to today using our interactive Sankey animation at us.sankey.rdcep.org. 1/x
#EnergyTransition #EnergyPolicy
#EnergyTransition #EnergyPolicy
Our work on U.S. energy history is the subject of a new article by @yayitsrob at @TheAtlantic
In this thread, we’ll highlight some of the most exciting findings and figures from our research. 2/x
theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
In this thread, we’ll highlight some of the most exciting findings and figures from our research. 2/x
theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
A historical puzzle: the U.S. is a strange outlier in its "energy intensity", using far more energy per dollar of GDP than most other countries, even over the same historical period. See our answer at bit.ly/3o8o8Qu. 3/x
#EnergyHistory
#EnergyHistory
Our latest issue (No. 249) the final one of 2020 is out now: academic.oup.com/past/issue Check out all of the articles it contains below👇
#socialhistory #culturalhistory #twitterstorians @OUPHistory
#socialhistory #culturalhistory #twitterstorians @OUPHistory
1/ " Late Antiquity: The Age of Crowds?"
academic.oup.com/past/article/2… by @jcmo1977 @usponline
#antiquity #socialhistory #urbanhistory #medievaltwitter #Twitterstorians
academic.oup.com/past/article/2… by @jcmo1977 @usponline
#antiquity #socialhistory #urbanhistory #medievaltwitter #Twitterstorians
2/ "Military Mobility, Authority and Negotiation in Early Colonial India" academic.oup.com/past/article/2… by Christna Welsch @WoosterEdu
#imphist #globalhist #earlymodern #socialhistory #culturalhistory #Twitterstorians
#imphist #globalhist #earlymodern #socialhistory #culturalhistory #Twitterstorians
'Ansok Tideland was inaugurated in #NorthKorea. It took about three years for officials and workers of South Phyongan Provincial Tideland Reclamation General Enterprise to reclaim the tideland...' rodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?s…
'...The successful reclamation of the tideland, fruition of the devoted efforts of the tideland builders, laid foundations for the country's agricultural development. The builders reclaimed the tideland by building a dozens of kilometers-long bank in the West Sea of Korea...'
'...They are brave conquerors of sea upholding the grandiose nature-remaking plan of the Party by working miracles of creating a thing out of nothing. The reclaimed tideland comes to be their gift to the motherly Party.' #NorthKorea rodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?s…
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Today is #NationalDogDay!
Time to re-examine the roles dogs have played in #DisHist!
For centuries, artists have shown dogs accompanying blind subjects, performers & beggars across the world, suggesting that dogs lived/worked alongside disabled handlers.
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Today is #NationalDogDay!
Time to re-examine the roles dogs have played in #DisHist!
For centuries, artists have shown dogs accompanying blind subjects, performers & beggars across the world, suggesting that dogs lived/worked alongside disabled handlers.
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Medieval European texts show figures that might possibly be blind holding a staff & the lead of a dog. As per @NinonDubourg, dogs were not considered reliable or safe in theory, but they were likely used as companions and fellow performers while begging.
#DisHist #envhist
Medieval European texts show figures that might possibly be blind holding a staff & the lead of a dog. As per @NinonDubourg, dogs were not considered reliable or safe in theory, but they were likely used as companions and fellow performers while begging.
#DisHist #envhist
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For more on #DisHist and good dogs in medieval illustrations, you can read @drkmurch’s blog here: kristamurchison.com/medieval-guide…
And @JudeSeal’s @ExploreWellcome piece here: wellcomecollection.org/articles/XszQJ…
#NationalDogDay #envhist #animalhistories
For more on #DisHist and good dogs in medieval illustrations, you can read @drkmurch’s blog here: kristamurchison.com/medieval-guide…
And @JudeSeal’s @ExploreWellcome piece here: wellcomecollection.org/articles/XszQJ…
#NationalDogDay #envhist #animalhistories
I'm grateful to @brdemuth for suggesting that this thread on the Arctic Refuge might be useful in teaching. I thought I would add a few more sources in case you want to introduce students to this topic in #envhist and other courses.
The thread (currently pinned to my profile) includes many sources, most importantly a map produced by the Gwich'in Steering Committee (@OurArcticRefuge) as well as links to several videos and articles. But here are a few more I've used before in classes.
The Refuge, a short film from 2016, which includes interviews with Gwich'in leaders @bernademientief, @ArcticDaazhraii, and Sarah James.
1/3 Watch steam+motor propulsion extend sailing season into rough weather seasons 1845-1915:
#fossilfuel shipping -> more speed, predictability AND duration of season.
#climhist #envhist #dkvid #dkhist #LivingOnTheEdge #twitterstorians #coastalhistory #EarthDay2020
#oceanspast
#fossilfuel shipping -> more speed, predictability AND duration of season.
#climhist #envhist #dkvid #dkhist #LivingOnTheEdge #twitterstorians #coastalhistory #EarthDay2020
#oceanspast
2/3 1825 North Sea storm flood -> Breaching sand dune barriers northwest Denmark -> access between The North Sea and Limfjord -> natural disaster providing new shipping route ...
#maritime #history #twitterstorians #dkvid #dkhist #envhist #climhist #oceanspast #EarthDay2020
#maritime #history #twitterstorians #dkvid #dkhist #envhist #climhist #oceanspast #EarthDay2020
3/3....Connecting Limfjord area to wider World
One of many topics in @DFF_raad funded project: Living on the Edge: bit.ly/34YCgmV
#maritime #history #twitterstorians #dkvid #dkhist #envhist #climhist #oceanspast #EarthDay2020
One of many topics in @DFF_raad funded project: Living on the Edge: bit.ly/34YCgmV
#maritime #history #twitterstorians #dkvid #dkhist #envhist #climhist #oceanspast #EarthDay2020
THREAD: Happy #EarthDay ! Let’s look now at one key factor, besides Covid-19, that makes this year’s celebration different from many that have come before: the kids.
#envhist #envhum
#envhist #envhum
Of course, children and youth have long been involved in Earth Day events and other actions. Yet environmental leaders and the media have often presented them as emotional props, as symbols of innocence and vulnerability in need of adult protection.
Consider this 1963 ad produced by SANE in its campaign against nuclear testing. We see three white children, all sporting open-mouthed smiles and shiny white teeth. The text below, though, undercuts the carefree image: “Your children’s teeth contain Strontium-90.”
Danmark og 1950er-syndromet: På en dag, hvor #USA #OilMarketCrash er faldet til <0 USD(!), er det tid til at fortælle om, da Danmark blev afhængig af billige og rigelige forsyninger af råolie i årtierne efter #WW2. #dkenergi #dkhist #dkgreen #dkklima #dkpol #envhist #envhum 1/16
Det har @MogensRudiger og jeg skrevet om i det nye bogkapitel: "1950s Syndrome and Danish Energy Consumption and Production": Download: bit.ly/2RQDBHm #dkvid #dkgreen #dkforsk #energyplanning #dkhist 2/16
Begrebet ”1950er-syndromet” er fra schweiziske historiker, Christian Pfister @unibern som samlebetegnelse for den periode fra WW2-afslutning til 1973, hvor kombi af dyr faglært arb.kraft og billige fossile brændsler faciliterede en radikal omlægning af de vestlige samfund. 3/16
