HIST184 PO

This seminar explores different approaches to environmental history, from classic works by Alfred Crosby and James Scott to more recent scholarship, focusing on diverse ways of telling stories about people and nature. Our readings highlight the environmental consequences of industrialization, imperialism and totalitarianism; human and "natural" disasters; the emergence of the environmental sciences; and conservation and environmental politics in non-US contexts. (Europe since the Renaissance) Previously offered as HIST100T PO.