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An Integrated Environmental History of Watersheds

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - July 05, 2012 19:08 - Video
How 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 ...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD artwork

An Environmental History of the Danube

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - May 04, 2012 00:00 - Video
Carson 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,...

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Manifest Disaster: Climate and the Making of America

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - November 19, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Climate 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...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD artwork

Manifest Disaster: Climate and the Making of America

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - November 19, 2011 00:00 - Video
Climate 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...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD artwork

Manifest Disaster: Climate and the Making of America

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - November 19, 2011 00:00 - Video
Climate 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...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD artwork

Transforming Socialist Landscape

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - November 08, 2011 00:00 - Video
The 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...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD artwork

Neurohistory

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - May 10, 2011 00:00 - Video
The 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...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD artwork

Neurohistory

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 10, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
The 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...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD artwork

Neurohistory

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 10, 2011 00:00 - Video
The 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...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD artwork

British Eighteenth-Century Laboring-Class Poets

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - May 09, 2011 00:00 - Video
In 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...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD artwork

British Eighteenth-Century Laboring-Class Poets

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 09, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In 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...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD artwork

British Eighteenth-Century Laboring-Class Poets

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 09, 2011 00:00 - Video
In 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...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD artwork

Nature Conservation: The Influence of American Philosophies on Modern China

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 05, 2011 00:00 - Video
How 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...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD artwork

An Environmental History of Hungary

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 05, 2011 00:00 - Video
Carson 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...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD artwork

Nature Conservation: The Influence of American Philosophies on Modern China

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - May 05, 2011 00:00 - Video
How 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...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD artwork

An Environmental History of Hungary

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - May 05, 2011 00:00 - Video
Carson 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...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD artwork

An Environmental History of Hungary

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 05, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Carson 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...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD artwork

Nature Conservation: The Influence of American Philosophies on Modern China

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 05, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
How 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...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD artwork

An Environmental History of the Danube

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 04, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Carson 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,...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD artwork

An Environmental History of the Danube

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 04, 2011 00:00 - Video
Carson 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,...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD artwork

An Integrated Environmental History of Watersheds

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 04, 2011 00:00 - Video
How 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 ...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD artwork

An Integrated Environmental History of Watersheds

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 04, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
How 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 ...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD artwork

Fish, Gold, and Cotton: New World Resources in Western Europe

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Exposing 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...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD artwork

Facing Limits: Abundance, Scarcity, and the American Way of Life

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Carson 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...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD artwork

Paradigmatic Shifts in Western Europe: The Importance of the New World

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - Video ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Carson 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...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD artwork

Paradigmatic Shifts in Western Europe: The Importance of the New World

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - Video
Carson 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...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD artwork

Facing Limits: Abundance, Scarcity, and the American Way of Life

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - Video
Carson 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...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD artwork

Fish, Gold, and Cotton: New World Resources in Western Europe

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - Video
Exposing 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...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD artwork

Fish, Gold, and Cotton: New World Resources in Western Europe

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - Video
Exposing 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...

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD artwork

Facing Limits: Abundance, Scarcity, and the American Way of Life

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD - May 02, 2011 00:00 - Video
Carson 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...