Nature Sounds: Anthony Philip Heinrich and the Music of the American...
Abstract This essay examines the life and legacy of Anthony Philip Heinrich (1781–1861), a European-born composer who migrated to America in 1811. Heinrich is a nearly forgotten musician who spent...
View ArticleLewis Mumford’s Urbanism and the Problem of Environmental Modernity by Aaron...
Abstract This essay reconsiders the early career of Lewis Mumford and the assumption that modernity has been disastrous environmentally. Might it be possible to see Mumford, especially in his writings...
View ArticleNature’s Emporium: The Botanical Drug Trade and the Commons Tradition in...
Abstract From the 1840s through the end of the nineteenth century, the southern Appalachian region emerged as the United States’ most important supplier of so-called crude botanical drugs to the...
View ArticleCapital in Nature/Nature by Capital: Global Integration and New Zealand’s...
Abstract From earliest colonization, New Zealand’s forests have been altered by timber merchants, land-hunting settlers, acculturation societies, and plantation enthusiasts. Many stages in remaking...
View ArticlePhotographing Slow Disaster: Zoe Strauss’s Grand Isle Beach by Ellen Stroud
Extract The shock of orange shouts a warning: Danger. Pay Attention. You might miss it, so be careful and Look. Grand Isle Beach by photographer Zoe Strauss is a brown and gray beach scene, cut...
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