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Topic: Evaluations |
scormanpenzel
Replies: 10
Views: 1392
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 7:16 pm Subject: Evaluations |
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Topic: The Lost Year |
scormanpenzel
Replies: 5
Views: 863
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:54 am Subject: Yeah... |
I didn't finish all the reading, but from what I read, I really couldn't draw many connections to environmental history. It wasn't until I read some of the other posts that I understood a bit better w ... |
Topic: Wilderness (?) |
scormanpenzel
Replies: 12
Views: 2202
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:10 am Subject: Pineaples |
I thought/think that the razing of the Pines was terrible, but at the same time I realized that the tornado was already on a sunfortunate course, bound for the area and the trees. That being said, I b ... |
Topic: Whose West is It? |
scormanpenzel
Replies: 17
Views: 2323
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:44 am Subject: Parks n' shit |
As I read this piece and read peoples' posts, I found myself able to tie in things I had just learned from the paper I wrote comparing The Searchers and a reading about the destruction of the Grasslan ... |
Topic: Water in Boston! |
scormanpenzel
Replies: 9
Views: 1352
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 9:46 am Subject: watah |
I have never really thought about the history of Boston's water quality over the past few centurys and such until I read this piece. As i read through it, I noticed a TON of similarities between the w ... |
Topic: animals! |
scormanpenzel
Replies: 8
Views: 1165
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:56 am Subject: Histree |
When I started Isenberg's piece, I was a little surprised at the end of the first paragraph. I knew the piece was on Indians and Bison, but I had never heard the word "Bison" in the same sen ... |
Topic: Europeans and Native New Englanders |
scormanpenzel
Replies: 11
Views: 1370
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:03 am Subject: Stuff. |
So while i was reading "Eden", I came across a quote that triggered some other information in me that I hadn't ever had to/thought i would have to use. I was forced to go to hebrew school wh ... |
Topic: Cronon and Merchant, continued... |
scormanpenzel
Replies: 13
Views: 1444
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 10:12 am Subject: Cronon and Merchant, continued... |
Cronon: I agree with morgan in believing that his definition of environmental history comes across helping predict and change our environmental future by means of the study of our environmental past
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Topic: Cronon and Merchant |
scormanpenzel
Replies: 14
Views: 1717
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:01 am Subject: Cronon and Merchant |
I agree with Stefan, especially on the dislike of Willy Cronon's piece. I was a bit taken aback when I read the beginning pages. That it was his, "responsibility both as a teacher and as someone ... |
Topic: 1/4: Worster and Diamond |
scormanpenzel
Replies: 13
Views: 1545
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Forum: Environmental History Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 10:14 am Subject: Enviro. History |
I was only able to get through “Predicting Environmental History” after a great period of time. Regardless, I thought that Diamond did a great job breaking down, layer by layer, the progression of tec ... |
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