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An Integrated Environmental History of Watersheds
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - July 05, 2012 19:08 - VideoHow have humans changed rivers throughout history, and what issues of social and environmental justice shape human interaction with rivers and, more generally, water? These questions shape the research of Carson Fellow Melinda Laituri, who is engaged in a comparative study between the Danube and ...
An Environmental History of the Danube
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - May 04, 2012 00:00 - VideoCarson Fellow Martin Schmid discusses his work on writing the first environmental history of the Danube river; Schmid’s research is part of a larger project on the Danube at the Alpen-Adria-University in Vienna. The Danube has been substantially transformed since 1800 and is, according to Schmid,...
Manifest Disaster: Climate and the Making of America
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - November 19, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsClimate had a key role in shaping the settlement and development of the West in the United States, according to Carson Fellow Lawrence Culver. By using historical sources, including government land surveys and travel accounts from settlers, Culver demonstrates the important role climate played fo...
Manifest Disaster: Climate and the Making of America
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - November 19, 2011 00:00 - VideoClimate had a key role in shaping the settlement and development of the West in the United States, according to Carson Fellow Lawrence Culver. By using historical sources, including government land surveys and travel accounts from settlers, Culver demonstrates the important role climate played fo...
Manifest Disaster: Climate and the Making of America
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - November 19, 2011 00:00 - VideoClimate had a key role in shaping the settlement and development of the West in the United States, according to Carson Fellow Lawrence Culver. By using historical sources, including government land surveys and travel accounts from settlers, Culver demonstrates the important role climate played fo...
Transforming Socialist Landscape
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - November 08, 2011 00:00 - VideoThe transition from socialism to post-socialism has affected many aspects of life in Eastern Europe. By using anthropological participant-observer methodologies, Carson Fellow Stefan Dorondel looks at how this shift impacted land use in these regions; he considers both how people change in relati...
Neurohistory
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 10, 2011 00:00 - VideoThe intersection between neuroscience and history frames Carson Fellow Edmund P. Russell’s research project. Russell looks as the role of functional magnetic resonance imagining (FMRI) in historical research, especially with regard to its effect on human understanding of different types of enviro...
Neurohistory
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 10, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe intersection between neuroscience and history frames Carson Fellow Edmund P. Russell’s research project. Russell looks as the role of functional magnetic resonance imagining (FMRI) in historical research, especially with regard to its effect on human understanding of different types of enviro...
Neurohistory
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - May 10, 2011 00:00 - VideoThe intersection between neuroscience and history frames Carson Fellow Edmund P. Russell’s research project. Russell looks as the role of functional magnetic resonance imagining (FMRI) in historical research, especially with regard to its effect on human understanding of different types of enviro...
British Eighteenth-Century Laboring-Class Poets
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 09, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn a unique approach to exploring transformations in land use, Carson Fellow Anne Milne uses poetry from the laboring class in eighteenth century Britain to understand different perceptions of nature during this era. These poets were often described as “natural geniuses.” Milne considers how natu...
British Eighteenth-Century Laboring-Class Poets
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - May 09, 2011 00:00 - VideoIn a unique approach to exploring transformations in land use, Carson Fellow Anne Milne uses poetry from the laboring class in eighteenth century Britain to understand different perceptions of nature during this era. These poets were often described as “natural geniuses.” Milne considers how natu...
British Eighteenth-Century Laboring-Class Poets
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 09, 2011 00:00 - VideoIn a unique approach to exploring transformations in land use, Carson Fellow Anne Milne uses poetry from the laboring class in eighteenth century Britain to understand different perceptions of nature during this era. These poets were often described as “natural geniuses.” Milne considers how natu...
An Environmental History of Hungary
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 05, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsCarson Fellow Lajos Rácz explains the importance of climate history for the overall history of early modern Hungary. Documented climate data has only been in existence since the nineteenth century; therefore, Rácz reconstructs the pre-nineteenth century Hungarian climate from primary sources like...
Nature Conservation: The Influence of American Philosophies on Modern China
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 05, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHow have US American ideas about nature conservation influenced the conception of nature in China? Carson Fellow Hou Shen bases her research around the nature writings of three well-known American writers—Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson—in order to demonstrate how the idea of...
Nature Conservation: The Influence of American Philosophies on Modern China
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 05, 2011 00:00 - VideoHow have US American ideas about nature conservation influenced the conception of nature in China? Carson Fellow Hou Shen bases her research around the nature writings of three well-known American writers—Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson—in order to demonstrate how the idea of...
An Environmental History of Hungary
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 05, 2011 00:00 - VideoCarson Fellow Lajos Rácz explains the importance of climate history for the overall history of early modern Hungary. Documented climate data has only been in existence since the nineteenth century; therefore, Rácz reconstructs the pre-nineteenth century Hungarian climate from primary sources like...
An Environmental History of Hungary
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - May 05, 2011 00:00 - VideoCarson Fellow Lajos Rácz explains the importance of climate history for the overall history of early modern Hungary. Documented climate data has only been in existence since the nineteenth century; therefore, Rácz reconstructs the pre-nineteenth century Hungarian climate from primary sources like...
Nature Conservation: The Influence of American Philosophies on Modern China
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - May 05, 2011 00:00 - VideoHow have US American ideas about nature conservation influenced the conception of nature in China? Carson Fellow Hou Shen bases her research around the nature writings of three well-known American writers—Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson—in order to demonstrate how the idea of...
An Integrated Environmental History of Watersheds
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 04, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHow have humans changed rivers throughout history, and what issues of social and environmental justice shape human interaction with rivers and, more generally, water? These questions shape the research of Carson Fellow Melinda Laituri, who is engaged in a comparative study between the Danube and ...
An Integrated Environmental History of Watersheds
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 04, 2011 00:00 - VideoHow have humans changed rivers throughout history, and what issues of social and environmental justice shape human interaction with rivers and, more generally, water? These questions shape the research of Carson Fellow Melinda Laituri, who is engaged in a comparative study between the Danube and ...
An Environmental History of the Danube
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 04, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsCarson Fellow Martin Schmid discusses his work on writing the first environmental history of the Danube river; Schmid’s research is part of a larger project on the Danube at the Alpen-Adria-University in Vienna. The Danube has been substantially transformed since 1800 and is, according to Schmid,...
An Environmental History of the Danube
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 04, 2011 00:00 - VideoCarson Fellow Martin Schmid discusses his work on writing the first environmental history of the Danube river; Schmid’s research is part of a larger project on the Danube at the Alpen-Adria-University in Vienna. The Danube has been substantially transformed since 1800 and is, according to Schmid,...
Fish, Gold, and Cotton: New World Resources in Western Europe
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - VideoExposing a phenomenon overlooked by many historians, Carson Fellow Donald Worster explains the importance of New World resources on Western European society in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Worster details the role that gold, silver, fish, lumber, and cotton had on the imagination and...
Facing Limits: Abundance, Scarcity, and the American Way of Life
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsCarson Fellow and environmental historian Donald Worster argues that the discovery of the “New World” in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was the most important event in modern history. These explorations gave Western society a wealth of natural resources that has never since been duplica...
Paradigmatic Shifts in Western Europe: The Importance of the New World
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsCarson Fellow Donald Worster argues that the discovery of the New World dramatically shaped the very idea of freedom; it significantly altered perceptions of nature, economic growth, and concepts of individuality. Donald Worster is an American environmental historian and is the Hall Distinguished...
Paradigmatic Shifts in Western Europe: The Importance of the New World
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - VideoCarson Fellow Donald Worster argues that the discovery of the New World dramatically shaped the very idea of freedom; it significantly altered perceptions of nature, economic growth, and concepts of individuality. Donald Worster is an American environmental historian and is the Hall Distinguished...
Fish, Gold, and Cotton: New World Resources in Western Europe
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - VideoExposing a phenomenon overlooked by many historians, Carson Fellow Donald Worster explains the importance of New World resources on Western European society in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Worster details the role that gold, silver, fish, lumber, and cotton had on the imagination and...
Paradigmatic Shifts in Western Europe: The Importance of the New World
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - VideoCarson Fellow Donald Worster argues that the discovery of the New World dramatically shaped the very idea of freedom; it significantly altered perceptions of nature, economic growth, and concepts of individuality. Donald Worster is an American environmental historian and is the Hall Distinguished...
Facing Limits: Abundance, Scarcity, and the American Way of Life
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - VideoCarson Fellow and environmental historian Donald Worster argues that the discovery of the “New World” in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was the most important event in modern history. These explorations gave Western society a wealth of natural resources that has never since been duplica...
Fish, Gold, and Cotton: New World Resources in Western Europe
Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsExposing a phenomenon overlooked by many historians, Carson Fellow Donald Worster explains the importance of New World resources on Western European society in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Worster details the role that gold, silver, fish, lumber, and cotton had on the imagination and...
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