If this has not come by, it may be of interest those doing environmental
work. I picked it up from H-West
tom hall
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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 10:58:09 -0500
From: Elliott West <ewest@comp.uark.edu>
Subject: CFP: Environmental History
XIIth International Economic History Conference, Seville 1998
ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY: AN EMERGING SYNTHESIS?
Call for Papers
This is a call for papers for a C-Session at the Twelfth International
Economic History Congress, to be held in Seville, Spain, in August,
1998.
During a preparatory meeting at the XIth International Economic History
Conference in September 1994 in Milan a number of researchers agreed
that historians and economists had not contributed enough to the field
of environmental history. Although in the United States an Environ-
mental History Society and Journal have existed for almost 20 years,
it was felt that topics thus far had been limited to the United
States and that additional approaches would be enriching.
Worldwide interest in environmental history is increasing and in recent
years many successful books on this subject have been published.
Nevertheless, the body of historical research on which these
books are based has been rather narrow. We are eager to stimulate
additional research in this field in order to answer fundamental
questions on the history of the relationship between mankind and
the natural environment.
What have been the effects during the last few centuries of the spread
of industry and scientific agriculture and forestry over the world?
What were the importance and relevance of early environmental groups?
What were the social, political, economic and intelectual factors that
influenced pressure on the environment? What role have aesthetic and
ethical viewpoints had in making environmental policy? With regard to
our thinking about environmental problems, should the environmental
pessimism of the 1970s be considered outdated?
For the C-Session on Environmental History at the 1998 XIIth Inter-
national Economic History Conference in Seville we invite papers on
environmental history concentrated on these five main themes, but
not limited to them:
1. Methodological and theoretical aspects of environmental history.
2. The impact of agriculture and forestry on land.
3. Industrialization and its consequences for land, air and water.
4. Water use and the fate of streams and bodies of water.
5. Social and Demographic Aspects of Environmental Issues.
We encourage participation from historians writing about all areas
of the globe. If you would like to participate in what promises to be
a most stimulating session please send a one page summary of your
paper to one of the following correspondents:
Central and South America, and Asia:
Dr. Albert Schram
P.O. Box 112-2400
San Jose, Costa Rica
email: aschram@cariari.ucr.ac.cr
telephone: +506 234 8706
North America, Australia, and New Zealand:
Professor Myron Gutmann
Department of History
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712
USA
email: myron@prc.utexas.edu
phone: 512-471-8358
fax: 512-471-4886
Europe, Russia, and Africa:
Mr. Sakari Virtanen
University of Oulu
Research and Development Centre of Kajaani
P.O. Box 51
87101 Kajaani, Finland
email: sakari.virtanen@oulu.fi
telephone: +358 86 632 4858 (after 12 Oct 96: +358 8 632 4858)
fax: +358 86 632 4865 (after 12 Oct 96: +358 8 632 4865)
Deadline for proposals: All proposals must reach one of
the correspondents by December 1, 1996. We expect to choose
the final program by January 31, 1997. All papers will be due
by December 31, 1997.
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Myron P. Gutmann
Professor of History
Department of History
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712
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Office Phone: 512-471-8358 Fax: 512-471-4886
Home Phone: 713-556-1895 Fax: 713-556-8912
myron@prc.utexas.edu