International Review of Environmental History: Volume 9, Issue 2, 2023 by James Beattie instant download

International Review of Environmental History: Volume 9, Issue 2, 2023 by James Beattie instant download

The histories and legacies of extraction and toxicity are innumerable. Globally, these forces have both facilitated and been a by-product of industrial growth, technological advancement and nation-building for centuries, but so too have they enabled and exacerbated environmental degradation, structural inequality, and the continued colonisation of lands and peoples. In addressing the histories and legacies of extraction and toxicity, this special issue of the International Review of Environmental History draws attention to several of the most pressing themes taken up by historians dealing with these processes.
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Contents:
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• Histories and legacies of extraction and toxicity: An introduction – Jessica Urwin and Rohan Howitt
• Interdisciplinary approaches to environmental histories of metal mining – Susan Lawrence and Peter Davies
• Toxic coloniality and the legacies of resource extraction in Africa – Iva Peša
• Oil from penguins: Mentalities of extraction in the Southern Ocean World, 1889–1919 – Rohan Howitt
• Australia’s Pacific Maralinga: Nauru’s War of Rehabilitation in nuclear perspective – Nicholas Hoare
• ‘Stealing fire from heaven’: Odette du Puigaudeau and French nuclear colonialism in the Algerian Sahara – Christopher R. Hill and Clémence Maillochon
• ‘Better active today than radioactive tomorrow’: Environmentalism and the Australian anti-uranium movement, 1975–82 – Jessica Urwin