Reading for comps is a long, lonely, and all consuming year of Ph.D. life; and I am about to begin month 1. Three lists and about 180 books or equivalent articles to go before jumping through the first flaming hoop. My three lists are environmental history, post-confederation Canadian history, and the cordillera. The first is the broad explanation of my area of interest, the second is because the particular environment I study is in Canada, and the third is to satisfy the orographical nature of my dissertation. You see, I study coal mining communities in the front ranges of the Rocky Mountains. By geological happenstance the section of the cordillera with the majority of the coal is located in the Rockies which line the Alberta/British Columbia border. I am lucky enough to call one of these communities my hometown, though you would be hard pressed to associate it with coal mining today.
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- Active History
- Adam Crymble, Thoughts on Public and Digital History
- Adam Mandelman, Porous Places
- Colin Tyner, the Labour of Nature, and Island Life
- Crystal Fraser, Canadian and Aboriginal History
- Daniel Macfarlane, Environmental/Transnational Historian
- Highline Online
- Historiography (Mostly) Matters – John Walsh
- Jeff Slack, Mountain Nerd
- Jim Clifford, West Ham and the Lower Lea River
- Jim Opp, Lug The Camera
- Mark Wilson, Environmental Activism (UK)
- Merle Massie A Place in History
- Michael Egan, History for a Sustainable Future
- NiCHE
- Pacific Dreams, New York Life
- Peeling Back the Bark, Forest History
- Place/Placelessness Un-Workshop
- Podcast from WCSC 2008
- Ryan O'Connor, Great Green North
- Rylan Kafara, The Past is Unwritten?
- Sean Atkins, Canadian Historical Geography
- Sean Kheraj, Canadian History & Environment
- Sound and Noise, Online Music Magazine from the UofA
- Stillwaters Historians, Katherine O"Flarherty and Rob Gee
- Sustainability History Project
- Will Knight | History, Nature, Fish
So what's on your environmental history reading list? Care to share…
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