A new issue of the International Review of Environmental History has just been released. The papers in this issue are a tribute to the eminent and path-breaking New Zealand environmental historian Emeritus Professor Tom Brooking, who has recently retired from the University of Otago. Edited by ANZEHN stalwart James Beattie (Victoria University of Wellington), the International Review of Environmental History is a fully open access and peer-reviewed journal published by ANU Press. It is eager to receive submissions on all aspects of environmental history from around the world. Submission details are available at the ANU Press website.
Issue contents
Scoping Yeotopia: Tom Brooking and the making of rural New Zealand (PDF, 1.2MB) – Graeme Wynn
Tom Brooking: A people’s historian (PDF, 0.1MB) – Seán Brosnahan
The farmer’s cutting edge in southern New Zealand, 1864–1914 (PDF, 1.6MB) – Peter Holland and Sherry Olson
Into the Anthropocene: Environmental history and the morality of climate change (PDF, 1.9MB) – Eric Pawson
Fashioning a future. Part I: Settlement, improvement and conservation in the European colonisation of Otago, 1840–60 (PDF, 2.5MB) – James Beattie
On the edge of Canterbury settlement, 1854–58 (PDF, 0.1MB) – Paul Star
Practice in place in empire forestry: Owen Jones in Ceylon, Australia and New Zealand, 1911–55 (PDF, 0.2MB) – Michael Roche