HIST7314 · History
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
How do weather, natural resources, built spaces, water flow, buried minerals, animals and their pathogens, seasonal change, and similar factors shape human interactions, conflicts, and cultures? And how do human beings in turn construct and change the environments around them? These are age-old questions, but modern historians have taken them on in new and revealing ways. This colloquium surveys environmental history as a historical approach with the power to cut across political and territorial boundaries. Discussions will address the archival, methodological, and analytic challenges of making place an important element in constructing historical narratives.
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