Probing the past to better understand the present and prepare for an uncertain future. I think it’s fair to say that no field of history has grown more swiftly in quantity or sophistication in the 21st century than environmental history. The reason is, I suspect, self-evident: it’s in part a scholarly response to global warming, biodiversity loss, volatile and extreme weather events, and climate change–related diseases.
Abstract. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the ethnic Japanese (wajin) population of Hokkaido ballooned from roughly sixty thousand residents, prim
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