Nature’s Fortunes: New Directions in the Writing of European Environmental History

Ford, Caroline

doi:10.1086/511196

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“…When French historians and historical geographers examined nature and the environment, they focused on a populated or cultivated landscape. They were influenced by other national and scholarly traditions, the 'possibilism' that characterized French academic geography in the early to mid-twentieth century, and different 'epistemological concerns' that were less focused on ethical or moral imperatives (Ford 2007). This is not to deny an important strand of scholarship on forest history where the Annales school's influence remained important.…”

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A flat past? History, environment, topography, and medicine

Waddington

2021

Modern & Contemporary France

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This article uses topography to explore connections between environmental and medical perspectives in France between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing on examples from rural public hygiene, it addresses how physical and human geography in rural environments affected health and medicine, raising questions about how the topography of a landscape influenced medical responses to the environment. Rather than returning to the idea

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A flat past? History, environment, topography, and medicine

Waddington

2021

Modern & Contemporary France

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“… 7 For the new explanatory possibilities this practice-based approach has for casting new light even on well-known key figures of plant geography, see Endersby 2008; and Lack 2009. See Ford 2007 for an overview of new research on “new” environmental history, which often covered, at least marginally, research milieus of plant geographers.…”

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Scaling the Period Eye: Oscar Drude and the Cartographical Practice of Plant Geography, 1870s–1910s

Güttler

2011

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ArgumentThe historiography of botanical maps has mainly concentrated on their alleged “golden age,” on maps drawn by famous first-generation plant geographers. This article instead describes botanical maps after the age of discovery, and detects both a quantitative explosion and qualitative modification in the late nineteenth century. By spotlighting the case of the plant geographer Oscar Drude (1852–1933), I argue that the dynamics of botanical mappings were closely linked to a specific milieu of knowledge production: the visual culture of Imperial Germany. The scientific upgrading of maps was stimulated by a prospering commercial cartographical market as well as a widespread practice of mediating between professionals and amateurs via maps in the public sphere. In transferring skills and practices from these “popular” fields of knowledge to scientific domains, botanists like Oscar Drude established maps as an indispensable element of botanical observation. This wholesale dissemination of botanical maps had thus a formative influence on collective perception – the botanist's “period eye” – regarding plant distribution.

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Introduction: Environmental History and the History of Biology

Robin

Carruthers

2010

J Hist Biol

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Nature’s Fortunes: New Directions in the Writing of European Environmental History

Cited by 9 publications

References 16 publications

A flat past? History, environment, topography, and medicine

A flat past? History, environment, topography, and medicine

Scaling the Period Eye: Oscar Drude and the Cartographical Practice of Plant Geography, 1870s–1910s

Introduction: Environmental History and the History of Biology

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