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JOIN ASEH DONATE NOW JOURNALAnnouncing Environmental History Week 2021ASEH 2021 PostponedASEH will match up to $15,000 to fund theRachel Carson Prize for the best dissertation in environmental history in perpetuity. Join us in securing in its future!DONATE TO THE RACHEL CARSON PRIZEBathsheba Demuth'sFloating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Straitis this year s winner of the George Perkins Marsh Prize for best book in environmental history.Floating Coastis aremarkable piece of historical scholarship that examines the history of human societies, animal worlds and non-human nature across 200 years of Beringia the Arctic land and waters between Canada and Russia. Demuth s book takes place at the interstices of imperial and national borders and borderlands, within the homelands of multiple indigenous peoples and the habitats of whales, seals, caribou, and other species. Her nuanced attention to these spaces and scales, which includes different structures of governments in this multinational setting as well as their engagement with indigenous sovereignties, is impressive. While examining the transformations wrought by state efforts to extract the Bering Strait s resources and by climate change, she manages to detail the agency and resiliency of both peoples and animals in the region, including a pathbreaking exploration of the ability of whales themselves to create spaces of security amidst widespread hunting. Demuth coveys her arguments in a well-crafted monograph, filled with elegant writing and moments when readers stop to savor its ideas and language.ASEH newsA RESIDENTIAL SUMMER INSTITUTE AT THEHUNTINGTONLIBRARYJuly 5-9, 2021 The Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology at Caltech and TheHuntingtonseeks applications from graduate students and post-doctoral scholars to participate in a week-long residential institute on the theme of Anthroforming the Landscape: A Historical View from Asia. The deadline to apply isFebruary 1st, 2021. For information and application guidelines please see the Research Division's website.Welcome to ASEHThe American Society for Environmental History encourages scholarship on the interactions between humans and the natural world (or among humans and non-humans) through time. Membership of the Society is markedly interdisciplinary and international, and the work of ASEH members ranges across the ages, from crucial concerns of the present to the farthest reaches of human time.As a non-profit scholarly organization, ASEH promotes research and teaching in environmental history, engages in public outreach, and supports its members professional needs. We offer a heartfelt welcome to all those with an interest in these activities, details of which can be found elsewhere on this website.The Society holds a lively and well-attended annual conference, encourages local / regional activities in support of its mission, and publishesEnvironmental History, an excellent scholarly journal, jointly with the Forest History Society, under the auspices of Oxford University Press.Please explore this website for more details about our mission, our journal, and our newsletter, conferences and workshops, travel grants, fellowships, teaching resources, and more as well as information about how to become a member of the Society.-Edmund Russell ASEH PresidentAmerican Society for Environmental HistoryUIC Department of History - MC 198601 S. Morgan St.Chicago, IL 60607-7109Sitemap

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