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NEW! Varieties of Environmental
History
June 2015
Edited by Laura Smoller
Courts: Seats of Justice, Centers of
Power
October 2013
Edited by Laura Smoller
Science, Technology, Health
October 2012
Edited by Felice Lifshitz
Aspects of the Occult
October 2011
Edited by Felice Lifshitz
The Formation of National Culture in
Egypt
April 2009
Edited by Walter Armbrust
Varieties of
Environmental History
June 2015
Edited by Laura Smoller
Introducton
The editors of History Compass are thrilled to present this
issue of History around the Compass, exploring exciting new
developments in the field of environmental history. Born out of the
ecological concerns of the 1960s and 1970s, environmental history
quickly established itself as a transnational and interdisciplinary
field of history. As the essays collected here demonstrate, recent
work in environmental history has continued to open up new areas of
inquiry and to transform our understanding of older issues.
Covering locations ranging from New Zealand to Latin America, from
the Mamluk sultanate to the British empire, the scholarship
presented here incorporates insights from fields as disparate as
archaeology, anthropology, climatology, and epidemology to bring
fresh light on such topics as imperialism, urban cultures, Native
Americans, public health, agricultural structures, sport-fishing,
political destines, and everyday life. As environmental history
continues to push boundaries, its practitioners are finding
innovative ways to put flora, fauna, soil, water, and weather at
the center of the human past. We invite you to share in discovering
the many facets by which historians are framing the interactions
between humans and their environment.
Global Implications of the Middle Eastern
Environment
Alan Mikhail
An Introduction to the Environmental History of the
Mamluk Sultanate
Yehoshua Frenkel
A Most Excellent Thing: Ecological Imperialism and
the Introduction of Trout to Canterbury, New Zealand
Jack Kós
Beyond "the Ecological Indian" and "Virgin Soil
Epidemics": New Perspectives on Native Americans and the
Environment
James D. Rice
Recent Themes in the Environmental History of the
British Empire
James Beattie
Animals and Imperialism: Recent Historiographical
Trends
Aaron Skabelund
Bringing the Animals Back in: Writing Quadrupeds
into the Environmental History of Latin America and the
Caribbean
Lauren Derby
Medieval Urban Environmental History
Roberta J. Magnusson
Knowing Nature through History
Liza Piper
Courts: Seats of Justice,
Centers of Power
October 2013
Edited by Laura Smoller
Republican Courts and Beyond: Early U.S. Political
Culture
Sandra Moats
Family, the State, and Law in Early Modern and
Revolutionary France
Matthew Gerber
Gender and Rulership in the Medieval German
Empire
Amalie Fößel
Ottoman Judicial Change in the Age of Modernity: A
Reappraisal
Avi Rubin
Railing Rhymes Revisited: Libels, Scandals, and
Early Stuart Politics
Alastair Bellany
Eunuchs in Historical Perspective
Kathryn M. Ringrose
Judicial Beginnings: The Supreme Court in the
1790s
Robert P. Frankel Jr.
Transmissions and Transformations: Global Peace
Movements between the Hague Conferences and World War I
Anne Chao
Queenship: Politics and Gender in Tudor
England
Retha Warnicke
The Law of the Land or the Law of the Land?:
History, Law and Narrative in a Settler Society
Bain Attwood
For further reading
- The Legal Status of Piracy in Medieval Europe
- Law and Lawbooks in Mediaeval Wales
- Rape Law in 19th-Century America: Some Thoughts and Reflections on the State of the Field
- Gender and Rulership in the Medieval German Empire
- Teaching & Learning Guide for: The Legal History of the Ottoman Empire
- The Oceans as the Common Property of Mankind from Early Modern Period to Today
- The Legal History of the Ottoman Empire
- Women, Gender and Lordship in France, c.1050–1250
- Aristocratic and Gentry Women, 1460–1640
- Women, Gender, and Rulership in Medieval Italy
- Criminal Violence in Modern Britain
- The Reign of James VI and I: the Birth of Britain
- A Means and Measure of Civilisation: Colonial Authorities and Indigenous Law in Australasia
Science, Technology,
Health
October 2012
Edited by Felice Lifshitz
Irina Metzler
New Directions in the Study of Religious Responses
to the Black Death
Justin Stearns
Blood in Medieval Cultures
Bettina Bildhauer
Recent Perspectives on Leprosy in Medieval Western
Europe
Elma Brenner
Integrative Medicine: Incorporating Medicine and
Health into the Canon of Medieval European History
Monica H. Green
Religion and the Enlightenment(s)
M. Sandberg
Science and Technology in India: The Digression of
Asia and Europe
Aniruddha Bose
‘Dead Meat’ Dramas: Diseased Meat and the Public's
Health
Keir Waddington
The Ties That Bind: Infanticide, Gender, and
Society
Brigitte H. Bechtold and Donna Cooper
The Fertility of Scholarship on the History of
Reproductive Rights in the United States
Joyce Berkman
Eugenics and Historical Memory in America
Alexandra Minna Stern
Having a Clean Up? Deporting Lunatic Migrants from
Western Australia, 1924–1939
Philippa Martyr
Re-visiting Histories of Modernization, Progress,
and (Unequal) Citizenship Rights: Coerced Sterilization in Peru and
in the United States
Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney
Flu: Past and Present
George Dehner
Malaria in Africa
James L. A. Webb Jr.
Polio in Nigeria
Elisha P. Renne
Sowing the Seeds of Progress: The Agricultural
Biotechnology Debate in Africa
Noah Zerbe
The League of Nations and the Debate over Cannabis
Prohibition
Liat Kozma
The Medical History of South Africa: An
Overview
Anne Digby
Constructing a Narrative: The History of Science
and Technology in Latin America
María Portuondo
A Survey of the History of Science in New Zealand
1769–1992
Rebecca Priestley
History for the Anthropocene
Libby Robin and Will Steffen
Aspects of the
Occult
October 2011
Edited by Felice Lifshitz
Astrology in the Middle Ages
Hilary M. Carey
Magic in the Middle Ages: History and
Historiography
David J. Collins
Magic and Impotence: Recent Developments in
Medieval Historiography
Catherine Rider
Kabbalah: A Medieval Tradition and Its Contemporary
Appeal
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Magic and Divination in the Medieval Islamic Middle
East
Edgar Francis
Traditions and Trajectories in the Historiography
of European Witch Hunting
Thomas A. Fudge
A New Trumpet? The History of Women in Scotland
1300–1700
Elizabeth Ewan
Deference and Dissent in Tudor England: Reflections
on Sixteenth-Century Protest
K. J. Kesselring
Sexuality, Witchcraft, and Honor in Colonial
Spanish America
Nicole von Germeten
Vaya con Dios: Religion and the Transnational
History of the Americas
Pamela Voekel, Bethany Moreton and Michael Jo
The History of Prophecy in West Africa: Indigenous,
Islamic, and Christian
Joel E. Tishken
The Missionary Impact: The Northern Transvaal in
the Late Nineteenth Century
Alan Kirkaldy
The Formation of National
Culture in Egypt
April 2009
Edited by Walter Armbrust
The Formation of National Culture in Egypt in the
Interwar Period: Cultural Trajectories
Walter Armbrust
Repackaging the Egyptian Monarchy: Faruq in the
Public Spotlight 1936-1939
Matthew H. Ellis
How Zaynab Became the First Arabic
Novel
Elliott Colla
Women in the Singing Business, Women in
Songs
Frederic Lagrange
Long Live Patriarchy: Love in the Time of ‘Abd
al-Wahhab
Walter Armbrust
Football as National Allegory: Al-Ahram and
the Olympics in 1920s Egypt
Shaun Lopez
The Professional Worldview of the Effendi
Historian
Yoav Di-Capua