Tamara L Whited
Biographic Data
| ID | 1177184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamara L Whited |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamara L |
| FAMILY NAME | Whited |
| SIGNATURE | WHITED T L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Chasing the Mistral
A new history seeks to capture the ways in which the famous wind has left its mark on Provence’s culture and ecology, and how the French state tried to tame it
Sarah R. Hamilton. Cultivating Nature
Just to the south of Valencia, Spain, lies a narrow, thirty-kilometer-long stretch of land and water. At its heart is the Albufera, a shallow freshwater lake harboring an array of terrestrial and aquatic species and hosting multitudes of migratory birds that appear annually at this stop along the western Mediterranean flyway between Africa and Europe. A scant kilometer to the east is the Mediterranean Sea, and in between these bodies of water lie…
Industrial French food and its critics
The shift to an industrialised agricultural system, designed to support an ever-expanding number of consumers with an ever-diminishing number of producers, is without question one of the most impor
Martyn Lyons, The Pyrenees in the Modern Era
Organic resistance
Terroir Transformed
This article explores the evolving concept of terroir, broadly understood today to designate a grouping of territories within a region that yield one or more characteristic food products or wine. Through a case study of sheep’s milk cheese made in the western French Pyrenees, my analysis moves beyond contemporary articulations of terroir, which are described here as the promotional, the scientific, and the culturally constructed. I show that Pyre…
Nature and Power through Multiple Lenses
This contribution focuses on analyses of specific themes in the encyclopedic Nature and Power , by Joachim Radkau. The analysis is shaped by insights derived from pairing individual chapters from the book with related readings. Examples will include traumatic environmental experiences, early modern colonialism and colonial “ghost acreage,” industrialization and uses of the forest, and manipulations of the hydrologic cycle. The structure of the co…
Resurrecting the Granary of Rome
Reviewed by: Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa Tamara L. Whited Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa. By Diana K. Davis. (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2007) The subtitle of Diana K. Davis’s book suggests the linking of two distinct fields – environmental history and colonial studies. Attention to North Africa …
Extinguishing disaster in Alpine France
Terroir Transformed
This article explores the evolving concept of terroir, broadly understood today to designate a grouping of territories within a region that yield one or more characteristic food products or wine. Through a case study of sheep’s milk cheese made in the western French Pyrenees, my analysis moves beyond contemporary articulations of terroir, which are described here as the promotional, the scientific, and the culturally constructed. I show that Pyre…
Extinguishing disaster in Alpine France
Industrial French food and its critics
The shift to an industrialised agricultural system, designed to support an ever-expanding number of consumers with an ever-diminishing number of producers, is without question one of the most impor
Resurrecting the Granary of Rome
Reviewed by: Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa Tamara L. Whited Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa. By Diana K. Davis. (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2007) The subtitle of Diana K. Davis’s book suggests the linking of two distinct fields – environmental history and colonial studies. Attention to North Africa …
Extinguishing disaster in Alpine France
Resurrecting the Granary of Rome
Reviewed by: Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa Tamara L. Whited Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa. By Diana K. Davis. (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2007) The subtitle of Diana K. Davis’s book suggests the linking of two distinct fields – environmental history and colonial studies. Attention to North Africa …
Nature and Power through Multiple Lenses
This contribution focuses on analyses of specific themes in the encyclopedic Nature and Power , by Joachim Radkau. The analysis is shaped by insights derived from pairing individual chapters from the book with related readings. Examples will include traumatic environmental experiences, early modern colonialism and colonial “ghost acreage,” industrialization and uses of the forest, and manipulations of the hydrologic cycle. The structure of the co…
Organic resistance
Terroir Transformed
This article explores the evolving concept of terroir, broadly understood today to designate a grouping of territories within a region that yield one or more characteristic food products or wine. Through a case study of sheep’s milk cheese made in the western French Pyrenees, my analysis moves beyond contemporary articulations of terroir, which are described here as the promotional, the scientific, and the culturally constructed. I show that Pyre…
Martyn Lyons, The Pyrenees in the Modern Era
Industrial French food and its critics
The shift to an industrialised agricultural system, designed to support an ever-expanding number of consumers with an ever-diminishing number of producers, is without question one of the most impor
Sarah R. Hamilton. Cultivating Nature
Just to the south of Valencia, Spain, lies a narrow, thirty-kilometer-long stretch of land and water. At its heart is the Albufera, a shallow freshwater lake harboring an array of terrestrial and aquatic species and hosting multitudes of migratory birds that appear annually at this stop along the western Mediterranean flyway between Africa and Europe. A scant kilometer to the east is the Mediterranean Sea, and in between these bodies of water lie…
Chasing the Mistral
A new history seeks to capture the ways in which the famous wind has left its mark on Provence’s culture and ecology, and how the French state tried to tame it
Archaeology (6 works) · History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · French Urban and Social Studies (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works)