Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - SD Podcast
1) Manifest Disaster: Climate and the Making of America
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 su...Show More
2) Neurohistory
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 r...Show More
3) British Eighteenth-Century Laboring-Class Poets
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 ...Show More
4) Nature Conservation: The Influence of American Philosophies on Modern China
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 wri...Show More
Nature Conservation: The Influence of American Philosophies on Modern China
00:07 | May 5th, 2011
5) An Environmental History of Hungary
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; th...Show More
6) An Integrated Environmental History of Watersheds
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 researc...Show More
7) An Environmental History of the Danube
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...Show More
8) Facing Limits: Abundance, Scarcity, and the American Way of Life
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 ...Show More
9) Fish, Gold, and Cotton: New World Resources in Western Europe
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...Show More
10) Paradigmatic Shifts in Western Europe: The Importance of the New World
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 i...Show More
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