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01/07/2024

The edited collection Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History, edited by David Moon, Nicholas Breyfogle and Alexandra Bekasova is now available in paperback from our online bookshop (and soon elsewhere), priced at £32 https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/product/place-and-nature/

01/07/2024

New article by Aalok Chaurasia in Journal of Population and Sustainability - A Comparison of Mortality Transition in China and India, 1950–2021. Open Access as always! https://www.whp-journals.co.uk/JPS/article/view/946

27/06/2024

This conference will consider all new environmental history research related to the Mediterranean.

24/06/2024

The fantastic RCC 2024 special issue of 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵: 𝘈 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺, edited by Céline Pessus and Marin Coudreau, is now published under the headline “Silent Springs. Global Histories of Pesticides and our Toxic World(s).” It is part of a longstanding collaboration between the RCC and The White Horse Press.

“How many ‘silent springs’ have there been since Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1962?” With this question, the special issue begins its global journey through the recent history of pesticides and the environment. It tracks toxicity in the production of vegetables and spices, in the products, and in the final waste; it questions pesticide regulations and their resistance movements; and it enquires how we come into contact and interact with peticides in our everyday life through its creative contributions.

This is also one of the first 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 issues that is available as an open-access journal on the Liverpool University Press website.

All the links are in our latest "News" item on the RCC website: https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_events/2024-news/global-environment-2024/index.html

24/06/2024

New Open Access fast-track article in Plant Perspectives: Epha Roe, Photographic Phytography...

https://www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/article/view/990

20/06/2024

IMPACT FACTOR NEWS
We are delighted that Nomadic Peoples' Impact Factor has increased to 1.1 in the 2024 Journal Citation Reports. The transition to Open Access means more readers, more citations and greater impact! Please make sure your institution subscribes to keep it Open Access in future years via 'Subscribe-to-Open'.

19/06/2024

New blog post (originally published in Plant Perspectives) shares Merve Ünsal's thoughts on the genesis and significance of her sound art installation Into the Wind.

In this blog – a recent article in Plant Perspectives – Merve Ünsal describes the genesis and meaning of her sound art installation Into the Wind, which can be experienced here. While p…

17/06/2024

New Open Access article in Climates and Cultures in History: Palden Gyal 'The Sociopolitical Impact of a Natural Disaster: The Snow Disaster of the Earth-Rat Year (1828) in Northwestern Tibet'. Don't forget, the journal is fully OA with no author fees, thanks to Subscribe to Open, and waiting for your submissions! https://www.whp-journals.co.uk/CCH/article/view/979

17/06/2024

New fast-track article in Environment and History (subscription access required) Lachlan Fleetwood's intriguing "The ‘Mystery’ of Lop Nor: Empire, Geographical ‘Problems’ and Climate Change on the Silk Roads" https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/whp.eh.63830915903600

14/06/2024

New Fast-track Open Access article published in Plant Perspectives: Minjie Wen's artist commentary entitled Plant Intelligence in Moist Spaces: Designing Data Visualisation of Botanical Life

11/06/2024

Exciting news: Global Environment 17.2, a Rachel Carson Center Special Issue edited by Marin Coudreau and Céline Pessis and entitled 'Silent Springs' is now online at https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpge/current It's entirely OPEN ACCESS thanks to our Subscribe to Open initiative. We have also flipped issue 17.1 to OA and issue 17.3 will be too - with no author fees! Read, enjoy and please ask your libraries to subscribe so we can make GE Open Access next year too!

05/06/2024

We are thrilled that Anna Guasco's Environment and History paper 'From Devil-Fish to Friendly Whale? Encountering Gray Whales on The California Coast' (https://doi.org/10.3197/096734023X16788762163687) has been awarded an honourable mention in the inaugural Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History of the International Commission of the History of Oceanography. The judges praised 'the way the paper combines meticulous studies of archival and literary sources, with a careful attention to representations and memory, not only for historical accuracy, but also arguing for complex and multi-positional narratives. Embedded in this significant paper is also the discussion on how to write historical narratives of animals as actors although they do not leave behind any records'. Read more here: https://oceansciencehistory.com/2024/05/28/launched-the-inaugural-jacqueline-carpine-lancre-early-career-scholars-prize-in-ocean-history-winner-announcement/

The DHST Commission on the History of Oceanography (ICHO) is pleased to announce the winner of its inaugural Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize. The award aims to provide recogni…

30/05/2024

New blog by Karolina Cwiek-Rogalska on 'Haunted Vegetation' in Pomeranian orchards - first published as a 'Snapshot' in Environment and History

In today’s blog, previously published as a ‘Snapshot’ in Environment and History 30.1 (February 2024), Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska employs a hauntological approach to abandoned Pomera…

30/05/2024

In this blog post, we highlight biodiversity research available on ScienceOpen in honor of the International Day for Biological Diversity.

23/05/2024

Enjoying the Nordic Climate History conference in beautiful Oslo Botanical Garden - overseen by the owl of wisdom. A great overlap of the interests of our two new journals Climates and Cultures in History and Plant Perspectives https://www.whpress.co.uk

22/05/2024

Two new Open Access research articles now available 'ahead of issue' in Plant Perspectives: https://www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/forthcoming_static - Zuzana Chovanec, 'Poppies under the linden tree' and Harri Uusitalo et al. 'Alien Plants between practices and representations'

22/05/2024

New blog by Admire Mseba, originally published asx the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations - ICEHO pages in Global Environment: https://whitehorsepress.blog/2024/05/22/inequalities-in-the-land-colonial-legacies-and-the-quest-for-land-equity-in-zimbabwe/

17/05/2024

There are four new 'ahead of issue' Open Access items to enjoy in Plant Perspectives - Isabella Clarke's Narrative Non Fiction, Conversations with Trees; Merve Unsal's Commentary on her artwork Into the Wind; and poems by Evgenia Emets (Religar) and Chris Konrad (Moth Graffiti). https://www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/forthcoming_static

16/05/2024

New online-first article in Environment and History: Tiphaine Robert, Political Acceptance of Dangerous Technology: The Example of Leaded Petrol through the Case Study of Switzerland (1921–1970): https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/whp.eh.63830915903593 (subscription required for access)

10/05/2024

New blog from Jisc about the challenges of Open Access for small presses - with a spotlight on The White Horse Press and the Open Book Collective

BlogHow smaller publishers are adapting and responding to the open access landscapebyAnna Hughes09 May 2024Small presses offer unique perspectives and wide viewpoints, and should be valued, supported and encouraged.UKRI’s open access (OA) policy now includes monographs, book chapters and edited co...

10/05/2024

Loved visiting beautiful Royal Holloway yesterday for Yota Batsaki’s fantastic Plant Hunanities lecture

07/05/2024

There are three new online-first articles in Environment and History: Shanghai and the Smoke Fiend: Obstacles to the Control of Urban Smoke, 1869–1943 by XIAOJIE LI and DAVID S. JONES; Agency under German Occupation: Conservationist Policy-Making in The Netherlands, 1940–1945 by KRISTIAN MENNEN (Open Access!); and Ignorance and Environmental History: The Opening of an Arctic Offshore Oil Frontier, 1968–1976 by ANDREW STUHL
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/0/0

07/05/2024

New blog from Plant Perspectives Creative Submissions Editor, Prudence Gibson:

We are thrilled that Prudence Gibson has joined the Plant Perspectives team as Creative Submissions Editor, jointly with Kristina van Dexter. The journal’s first issue showcased exciting crea…

01/05/2024

An excellent review (in German) of Jon Mathieu's Mount Sacred by Daria Pezzoli-Orgati has appeared in SZG/RSH/RSS:https://www.sgg-ssh.ch/sites/default/files/szg_pdf/007_rezensionen_rezensionen_szg_1_2024.pdf

'How do you write a short global history about a spatial phenomenon that is so widespread both materially on this planet and in the imagination? The author's answer is clear and captivating: by taking an exemplary approach based on selected studies, keeping working definitions flexible and modelling them as heuristic instruments, positioning oneself clearly and modestly in relation to the object of research and transferring one's own fascination to the reader.'

26/04/2024

Announcing the 2024 Nomadic Peoples Student Essay prize. You can read the 2023 winning essay by Patrick Hegarty Morish here: https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/whpnp.63837646691045

23/04/2024

Peter Quigley's The Forbidden Subject: How Oppositional Aesthetics Banished Natural Beauty from the Arts is now available as an ebook for individuals - only £15 from our website: https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/product/the-forbidden-subject/

19/04/2024

The sixth instalment of Tim Killeen's enormous work on the Amazon - A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness - is now available Open Access on our website (https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2023/06/01/a-perfect-storm-in-the-amazon-wilderness/) and via the Environment & Society Portal of the Rachel Carson Center This section deals with how 'Culture and Demographics Define the Present' and is an essential, if not a cheering, read for all those interested the challenges facing one of our planet's most critically important ecosystems: https://doi.org/10.3197/9781912186228.ch06

18/04/2024

Here's a preview of the cover of the forthcoming Global Environment Special Issue 'Silent Springs', edited by Marin Coudreau and Céline Pessis, in association with the Rachel Carson Center Coming in June!

17/04/2024

Environment and History 30.2 is now online. Lots of free content including editorial, book reviews and three Snapshots plus two Open Access articles! https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/30/2

16/04/2024

New blog by Milica Prokić and Pavla Šimková, introducing their edited volume, Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands

In this blog, Milica Prokić and Pavla Šimková introduce their just published edited volume Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands, which is available in both print and Open A…