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Environment and History, White Horse Press
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An interdisciplinary environmental history journal, showcasing how archival, documentary evidence and oral history testimony can contribute to reconnecting historic activities with the legacy of environmental challenges in the present and future #envhist
New ahead-of-print article! In "Tenacious," Claudia Leal examines the multidimensional history of dogs in Latin America since the colonial era. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️
October 28, 2025 at 1:23 AM
New open access article! In "The Contradictions of Dam Building in the People's Republic of China," the authors examine tensions between the PRC's limited capacities and promethean visions of taming China's rivers in the mid-20th century. Read it here: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️
October 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Issue 31.4 of Environment and History is out now! This special issue entitled "Dam Scientists: The limits of scientific knowledge and environmentalism" features 6 research articles, 2 snapshots, and 3 book reviews. Read online here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/31... #envhist🗃️
October 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
In "The Contested History of the Ecological Indian Trope," Larsen revisits the 1990s scholarly debate over the ‘Ecological Indian’ as a pivotal moment in the history of Indigenous knowledge among anthropologists and conservation scientists. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3... #envhist 🗃️
September 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
2 new ahead-of-print articles out now! In "Wildlife Corridors," Felten-Kury explores the interplay between imperial infrastructure, environmental dynamics and animal mobilities in colonial Southeast Asia. #envhist 🗃️https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/whpeh.63861480345877
September 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Reminder: come chat with us and learn more about publishing in E&H Tuesday or Thursday at #eseh2025! We’ll be at the WHP stand in the main university building. #envhist @whitehorsepress.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Interested in contributing to E&H or want to learn more about the process? Come see us next week at ESEH in Uppsala! We'll be hosting two "meet the editors" sessions at the WHP @whitehorsepress.bsky.social stand. #envhist
August 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
New open access ahead-of-print article! In "A Fishy Tale of the Nuclear Power Plant Never Built in Estonia," Kati Lindström and Achim Klüppelberg explore the envirotechnical history of nuclear development at Lake Võrtsjärv. Read it here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... #envhist
August 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM
In "Water, Race and Power," Kristin Brig-Ortiz analyzes the intersections among these dynamics in the context of British water management in South Africa. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...
July 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Two new ahead-of-print articles are live now! In "Translating Algae Into Policy," Adam Sundberg examines the late 20th century discovery of Gymnodinium catenatum and other toxic plankton in Tasmania & the subsequent scientific and policy impacts. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...
July 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Environment & History 31.3 is live! This issue includes five new articles as well as two open-access snapshots. Read here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications...
July 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
New open access ahead-of-print article! In "The Long Shadow of the Pines," Santiago Gorostiza analyses the 20th-century transformation of the political meaning attached to urban green spaces in Madrid's University City. Read here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... #envhist
May 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Environment and History 31.2 is available online now! This is a special issue entitled 'Sensing the World: Exploring Sensory Histories of the Environment,' edited by @gpetrick.bsky.social & @gfitz.bsky.social liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/31/2 #envhist @eseh.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Two new articles from a forthcoming issue of Environment and History are live ahead of print now! #envhist liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/0/0
March 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Call for submissions!

Snapshots are short essays which focus on environmental challenges of the 21st century, looking to historical perspectives to inform a more sustainable world.

See the attached call & send a pitch to @tluneau.bsky.social, deputy editor (tyson.luneau@cortland.edu) #envhist
February 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
3 ‘online first' articles (gated): Cook & Jackson on Australia’s Lower River Murray, 1880–1940; Petrick on Alcohol in The Little Ice Age; and Lafay on Imperial Climates in the 19thC Gulf South of the United States' #envhist #envhums #LIA liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/0/0
January 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
An extended deadline for applications to become Environment and History’s Deputy Editor, with me and Prof David Moon (Co-Eds.). I enjoyed being Deputy Editor, learning much about reviewing, editing and dissemination. White Horse Press is special, small and independent, an asset to our field #envhist
December 19, 2024 at 8:14 AM
Our bumper 30th-anniversary issue comprises 5 commissioned articles, 2 snapshots and 4 research articles, exploring (among many other topics) banana disease, flooding in medieval and early modern flooding Hull and multi-species toxic histories #envhist
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December 13, 2024 at 1:56 PM