The environmental history of early modern times is a seminal and lively field of historical research. This volume offers ten concise essays that provide an over

John F.

Since the appearance of Homo sapiens on the planet hundreds of thousands of years ago, human beings have sought to exploit their environments, extracting as man

In history, cities and nature are often treated as two separate fields of research. »Concepts of Urban-Environmental History« aims to bridge this gap. The con

The field of premodern environmental history (the study of the complex and ever-changing interrelationship between human beings and the world around them prior