August 29, 2025 at 11:25 AM
August 24, 2026 at 2:44 PM
I am please to announce that this is the 1000th review that I have facilitated for H-Environment! Thank you so much to all of the reviewers who make this position such a pleasure! #envhist #envhum #ecrocrit #envphil #aghist #oceanhist #conservation #sustainability #plantstudies #animalhist #energy 🏞️
Check out Jack Bouchard's review of "Oceanic Japan: The Archipelago in Pacific and Global History," edited by Stefan Huebner, Nadin Heé, Ian J. Miller, and William M. Tsutsui, published in 2024 by University of Hawai'i Press; now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I am please to announce that this is the 1000th review that I have facilitated for H-Environment! Thank you so much to all of the reviewers who make this position such a pleasure! #envhist #envhum #ecrocrit #envphil #aghist #oceanhist #conservation #sustainability #plantstudies #animalhist #energy 🏞️
I'm pleased to learn that The Champlain Society has awarded me its 2025 Floyd S. Chalmers Award for my book, Improving Upper Canada. #cdnhist #envhist #onhist #aghist
champlainsociety.utppublishing.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Today we have "Canadian Sugar Was Built on Violence" by @donicabelisle.bsky.social
Canadian sugar company Rogers Sugar (formerly B.C. Sugar) profited from violent, exploitation-based plantation labor.
niche-canada.org/2026/09/21/c...
#envhist #foodhistory #aghist #cdnhist #foodhistory #labour
Canadian sugar company Rogers Sugar (formerly B.C. Sugar) profited from violent, exploitation-based plantation labor.
niche-canada.org/2026/09/21/c...
#envhist #foodhistory #aghist #cdnhist #foodhistory #labour
Canadian Sugar Was Built on Violence
Canadian sugar profits, including those of Rogers Sugar/B.C. Sugar, were built upon a history of violent, exploited plantation labor.
niche-canada.org
September 21, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Today we have "Canadian Sugar Was Built on Violence" by @donicabelisle.bsky.social
Canadian sugar company Rogers Sugar (formerly B.C. Sugar) profited from violent, exploitation-based plantation labor.
niche-canada.org/2026/09/21/c...
#envhist #foodhistory #aghist #cdnhist #foodhistory #labour
Canadian sugar company Rogers Sugar (formerly B.C. Sugar) profited from violent, exploitation-based plantation labor.
niche-canada.org/2026/09/21/c...
#envhist #foodhistory #aghist #cdnhist #foodhistory #labour
October 10, 2023 at 3:22 PM
I have blurbs, y’all! Huge thank you to Louise Young and @mmuscolino.bsky.social, whose work I’ve read and admired for years and years!
You can find my book with @uchicagopress.bsky.social here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
#territorialnatures #envhist #histstm #aghist
You can find my book with @uchicagopress.bsky.social here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
#territorialnatures #envhist #histstm #aghist
August 20, 2026 at 12:34 PM
I have blurbs, y’all! Huge thank you to Louise Young and @mmuscolino.bsky.social, whose work I’ve read and admired for years and years!
You can find my book with @uchicagopress.bsky.social here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
#territorialnatures #envhist #histstm #aghist
You can find my book with @uchicagopress.bsky.social here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
#territorialnatures #envhist #histstm #aghist
obviously an "exact replica" of the hms discovery, representing vancouver (the city rather than george) at the bellingham tulip festival sometime in the 1920s. 🌷⛵
@larrycebula.bsky.social @forrestpass.bsky.social
#bchist #cdnhist #aghist
@larrycebula.bsky.social @forrestpass.bsky.social
#bchist #cdnhist #aghist
March 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
obviously an "exact replica" of the hms discovery, representing vancouver (the city rather than george) at the bellingham tulip festival sometime in the 1920s. 🌷⛵
@larrycebula.bsky.social @forrestpass.bsky.social
#bchist #cdnhist #aghist
@larrycebula.bsky.social @forrestpass.bsky.social
#bchist #cdnhist #aghist
orchards at terrace bc in the skeena river valley, maybe 1930s-1950s?
#aghist #bchist #cdnhist @rodneys.bsky.social
#aghist #bchist #cdnhist @rodneys.bsky.social
November 28, 2024 at 5:11 PM
orchards at terrace bc in the skeena river valley, maybe 1930s-1950s?
#aghist #bchist #cdnhist @rodneys.bsky.social
#aghist #bchist #cdnhist @rodneys.bsky.social
Check out Mona Bieling's review of Eric T. Jennings's "Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean," published in 2025 by @yalepress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #aghist
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April 30, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Check out Mona Bieling's review of Eric T. Jennings's "Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean," published in 2025 by @yalepress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #aghist
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
Join Rural History Roundtable on Feb 12 at 330pm EST, as @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social from University of Stavanger will give a talk entitled "The Medieval Pig."
To register for the Zoom presentation, click here: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/history...
All are welcome!
#aghist #animalhist #medievalhist
To register for the Zoom presentation, click here: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/history...
All are welcome!
#aghist #animalhist #medievalhist
February 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Join Rural History Roundtable on Feb 12 at 330pm EST, as @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social from University of Stavanger will give a talk entitled "The Medieval Pig."
To register for the Zoom presentation, click here: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/history...
All are welcome!
#aghist #animalhist #medievalhist
To register for the Zoom presentation, click here: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/history...
All are welcome!
#aghist #animalhist #medievalhist
This is the last book review of 2025 from H-Environment! I am happy to say that we managed to published 1 review each weekday (over 260!) since early January. Thank you so much to the dedication of all of our volunteer reviewers for their service to the field! #envhist #envhum #envphil #aghist #STS
Check out Lawrence Kessler's review of Henry Gee's "The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction," published in 2025 by St. Martin's Press; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #extinction #STS
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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December 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
It's time to look into what's happening with the Rural History Roundtable at @uofguelph.bsky.social.
Fall '25 has three hybrid sessions, including a November double billing. All are welcome to attend!
More info on @alanmaceachern.bsky.social's Sept 23 talk coming soon.
#aghist #cdnhist #ruralhist
Fall '25 has three hybrid sessions, including a November double billing. All are welcome to attend!
More info on @alanmaceachern.bsky.social's Sept 23 talk coming soon.
#aghist #cdnhist #ruralhist
September 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
It's time to look into what's happening with the Rural History Roundtable at @uofguelph.bsky.social.
Fall '25 has three hybrid sessions, including a November double billing. All are welcome to attend!
More info on @alanmaceachern.bsky.social's Sept 23 talk coming soon.
#aghist #cdnhist #ruralhist
Fall '25 has three hybrid sessions, including a November double billing. All are welcome to attend!
More info on @alanmaceachern.bsky.social's Sept 23 talk coming soon.
#aghist #cdnhist #ruralhist
December 9, 2023 at 5:44 PM
first #aghist, #bchist, and #cdnhist post, all rolled up in one.
August 5, 2023 at 11:14 PM
first #aghist, #bchist, and #cdnhist post, all rolled up in one.
April 6, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Episode 3: Colonialism and the land
"White settlers viewed farmland as a resource to be exploited, while Indigenous people saw it as a partnership for mutual benefit."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGY6...
#envhist #indigenous #aghist
"White settlers viewed farmland as a resource to be exploited, while Indigenous people saw it as a partnership for mutual benefit."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGY6...
#envhist #indigenous #aghist
Episode 3: Colonialism and the land
YouTube video by The Food & Environment Reporting Network
www.youtube.com
February 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Episode 3: Colonialism and the land
"White settlers viewed farmland as a resource to be exploited, while Indigenous people saw it as a partnership for mutual benefit."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGY6...
#envhist #indigenous #aghist
"White settlers viewed farmland as a resource to be exploited, while Indigenous people saw it as a partnership for mutual benefit."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGY6...
#envhist #indigenous #aghist
forthcoming book (march 2024) by ross fair, about #aghist and pre-confed #cdnhist:
utpdistribution.com/978148755353...
utpdistribution.com/978148755353...
October 31, 2023 at 7:25 PM
forthcoming book (march 2024) by ross fair, about #aghist and pre-confed #cdnhist:
utpdistribution.com/978148755353...
utpdistribution.com/978148755353...
The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries!
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
November 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Some BC fruit history for your reading list:
"Fruit Stand Ahead: Roadside Produce as Environmental Experience in Postwar British Columbia" by @benbradleyca.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2011/01/17/f...
#envhist #cdnhist #aghist
"Fruit Stand Ahead: Roadside Produce as Environmental Experience in Postwar British Columbia" by @benbradleyca.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2011/01/17/f...
#envhist #cdnhist #aghist
March 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Some BC fruit history for your reading list:
"Fruit Stand Ahead: Roadside Produce as Environmental Experience in Postwar British Columbia" by @benbradleyca.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2011/01/17/f...
#envhist #cdnhist #aghist
"Fruit Stand Ahead: Roadside Produce as Environmental Experience in Postwar British Columbia" by @benbradleyca.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2011/01/17/f...
#envhist #cdnhist #aghist