Creator Barnett, Lydia Publisher Environmental History 20 (2015): 217–37. Contributor White, Sam Language English Type Article
Tag Archives: 17th century
The Letter from Dublin: Climate Change, Colonialism, and the Royal Society in the Seventeenth Century
Description This article discusses an anonymous letter published in the Philosophical Transactions in 1676 that reports the theories of American colonists about the cause of their warming climate (cultivation and deforestation), and offers Ireland’s colonial […]
Re-Thinking Colonialism to Prepare for the Impacts of Rapid Environmental Change
Description Reo and Parker discuss how landscape change similar to what people are concerned about with climate change today has a long history in certain regions. In what is now called the Eastern U.S., colonialism […]