AHR Conversation: Environmental Historians and Environmental Crisis

AHR Conversation: Environmental Historians and Environmental Crisis

A roundtable discussion featuring environmental historians, namely Richard C. Hoffmann, Nancy Langston, James C. McCann, Peter C. Perdue, and Lise Sedrez, is presented. The discussion provides a historical perspective on environmental crisis and stresses the methodological issues and challenges of d...

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Published in:The American historical review 2008-12, Vol.113 (5), p.1431-1465
Main Authors: Hoffmann, Richard C., Langston, Nancy, McCann, James C., Perdue, Peter C., Sedrez, Lise
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Environmental conditions
Historians
History
Hoffmann, Richard C
Langston, Nancy
McCann, James C
Perdue, Peter C
Sedrez, Lise
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Summary:A roundtable discussion featuring environmental historians, namely Richard C. Hoffmann, Nancy Langston, James C. McCann, Peter C. Perdue, and Lise Sedrez, is presented. The discussion provides a historical perspective on environmental crisis and stresses the methodological issues and challenges of doing environmental history, providing with a snapshot of the field in its present state. The historians offer their perspectives on how the field considers the nature of time--how environmental history's sense of a very much enlarged expanse of time makes its approach to chronology, development, or history very different from that of most historians.
ISSN:0002-8762
1937-5239