Special Volume: “Environmental Humanities from Below”
Guest edited by Robert Michael Morrissey and Roderick I. Wilson
Introduction: Grassroots History; Global Environmental Histories from Below
Robert Michael Morrissey and Roderick I. Wilson
An Intermittent Order Contrived on Sand: Managing Water, Siltage, Locusts, and Cultivators on the Lower Yangzi in the Early 1800s
David A. Bello
“The Revolt of the Commons”: Resilience and Conflicts in the Water Management of the Jianghan Plain in Late Imperial China
Yan Gao
Fighting Fire with Fire: Mobile Pastoralists and French Discourse on Wildfires in Nineteenth-Century Algeria
Andrea E. Duffy
From a Colonial Hinterland to a Postcolonial National Economy: Jute and the Bengal Delta, 1850s to 1950s
Tariq Ali
Planting and Its Discontents: Or How Nomads Produced Spaces of Resistance in China’s Erstwhile Xikang Province
Mark E. Frank
Stewards of Their Island: Rastafari Women’s Activism for the Forest and Waters in Trinidad and Tobago—Social Movement Perspectives
Diana J. Fox and Jillian M. Smith
Defiant: Documenting the Violation of the Natural World by Latin American Reporters
Rupert Medd
Environmentalism in the Interstices: California’s Salton Sea and the Borderlands of Nature and Culture
Traci Brynne Voyles
Placing Edomae: The Changing Environmental Relations of Tokyo’s Early Modern Fishery
Roderick I. Wilson
Workers of the World’s Oceans: A Bottom-Up Environmental History of the Pacific
Gregory Rosenthal
Indigenous Landscapes in Northwestern New Spain: Environmental History through Contested Boundaries and Colonial Land Claims
Cynthia Radding
Nature in “the Jungle”: Ethnic Workers, Environmental Inequalities, and Subaltern Cultures of Nature in Chicago’s Packingtown
Colin Fisher
Possums, Quandongs, and Kurrajongs: Wild Harvesting as a Strategy for Farming through Drought in Australia
Rebecca Jones
The Ginger Option and Oppositional Agriculture in Postcolonial Sierra Leone
Zachary Poppel
Questioning the Anthropocene and Its Silences: Socioenvironmental History and the Climate Crisis
Andrew M. Bauer
Review
John R. McNeill and Alan Roe, eds., Global Environmental History: An Introductory Reader
Rob Rouphail