Tag: Lisa Brady
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War Against Nature, the Backbone of the South
You’ve heard the phrase “war is hell.” But you probably haven’t heard the phrase “war is when you attack agroecosystems.” It’s a lesser known aphorism of General Sherman’s, to be sure, mainly because he didn’t actually say it. But reading Lisa Brady’s book, War Upon the Land, made me wonder how much Sherman understood about…
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Roundtable: Mosquito Empires
This inaugural roundtable for H-Environment centers upon one of the key concepts that students and scholars of environmental history confront: environmental determinism. Many found their way to the field after reading Alfred W. Crosby’s 1972 The Columbian Exchange, which brought plants, animals, and diseases out of the footnotes and into a prominent place in the…
Jacob Darwin Hamblin 