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Environment, Emotion and Early Modernity 环境、情感与早期现代性

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Environment and History Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.3197/096734022x16470180631479

S. Handley, J. Morgan

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David Moon, Nicholas B. Breyfogle and Alexandra Bekasova (eds), Place and Nature. Essays in Russian Environmental History David Moon, Nicholas B. Breyfogle和Alexandra Bekasova(编)，《地点与自然》。俄国环境史论文

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Environment and History Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI: 10.3197/096734022x16470180631433

A. Vinogradov

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David Sepkoski, Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene David Sepkoski，《灾难性思维:从达尔文到人类世的灭绝和多样性的价值》

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Environment and History Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI: 10.3197/096734022x16470180631424

Hannah Duff

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The Opposite of Extinction 灭绝的反面

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Environment and History Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI: 10.3197/096734022x16470180631406

Catherine Oliver

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James Boyce, Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens 詹姆斯·博伊斯，《帝国泥浆:沼泽之战》

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Environment and History Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI: 10.3197/096734022x16470180631442

I. Rotherham

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Nicholas B. Breyfogle and Mark Sokolsky (eds), Readings in Water History Nicholas B. Breyfogle和Mark Sokolsky(编)，水历史读物

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Environment and History Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI: 10.3197/096734022x16470180631451

A. Toffolon

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Conceptualising Small Watersheds as Infrastructures of Immobility to Address Distress induced Rural-Urban Migration in India 概念化小流域作为不流动的基础设施，以解决印度农村-城市迁移引起的困境

IF 1.1 3区历史学

Environment and History Pub Date : 2022-02-01 DOI: 10.3197/096734022x16384451127221

Shashank Deora, Pankaj Sekhsaria

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Alexandra Goryashko, A Wild Bird and a Cultured Man. The Common Eider and Homo Sapiens: Fourteen Centuries Together 亚历山德拉·戈里亚什科《一只野鸟和一个有文化的人》普通绒猴和智人:共14个世纪

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Environment and History Pub Date : 2022-02-01 DOI: 10.3197/096734022x16384451127267

Jenny Lhamo Tsundu

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For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Uncounted Extinctions and the (Missed?) Opportunities to Prevent Them 丧钟为谁而鸣:未统计的灭绝和(错过的?)预防它们的机会

IF 1.1 3区历史学

Environment and History Pub Date : 2022-02-01 DOI: 10.3197/096734022x16384451127203

Virginia Thomas

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Sand and the City: On Colonial Development and its Evasive Enemies in Twentieth-Century Palestine 沙与城:论二十世纪巴勒斯坦的殖民发展及其回避的敌人

IF 1.1 3区历史学

Environment and History Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.3197/096734022x16384451127302

Dotan Halevy

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