Environmental history

Environmental history is the study of man and nature and their past interrelationships.

History of field

The modern field emerged in the early 1970s in conjunction with the rise of environmentalism as a social movement in the United States and the world. A scholarly organization emerged out of a breakfast session at the (year) American Historical Association meeting (or was an Organization of American Historians?). That organization, the American Society for Environmental History began to publish a newsletter, ASEH News and also a scholarly journal. The journal first entitled Environmental Review was developed to support scholars interested in the study of human/nature interactions. The journal went through several title changes, including Environmental History Review, and is currently published under the title Environmental History.

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