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danbrickman wrote a new post, back to nature, on the site Readings in Environmental History 1 week ago
Is it easier to prove the merits of new ideas and scholarship or to disprove what has become conventionally held beliefs? Shepard Krech III’s work The Ecological Indian attempts to do the latter. In contrast to […]
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danbrickman wrote a new post, Out of Africa, on the site Readings in Environmental History 2 weeks ago
The indigenous farmers/pasturalists of both the Old and New Worlds have provided local ecological knowledge to invading imperialists, colonizers and traders respectively. The methods by which the European […]
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danbrickman wrote a new post, Please Do Disturb, on the site Readings in Environmental History 2 weeks, 5 days ago
There is an old cliche that suggests the inevitablity in life of only two things: death and taxes. Perhaps the exchange of people and goods, flora and fauna, and the myriad of possibile outcomes once these new […]
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danbrickman wrote a new post, A contortionists view of Biohistory, on the site Readings in Environmental History 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Like everything “pseudo,” Eric Paulson’s essay on bio-history contains some kernels of intellectual integrity along with a heap of demagoguery. Paulson’s initial assertion, that biology influences history, […]
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