J Donald Hughes
Biographic Data
| ID | 140306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Donald Hughes |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Donald |
| FAMILY NAME | Hughes |
| SIGNATURE | HUGHES J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 64 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Adrian Howkins. Frozen Empires: An Environmental History of the Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula, an uninhabited, mountainous wildland fronting an icy sea, seems an unlikely place for colonial endeavor and nationalist assertion. But for decades, as Adrian Howkins deftly chronicles in Frozen Empires: An Environmental History of the Antarctic Peninsula, it was contested between the overlapping claims of Britain, Argentina, and Chile, and a place of interest for a number of other nations including but not limited to Norw…
New Horizons: Mediterranean Research in the 21st Century
Warfare and Environment in the Ancient World
This chapter deals with ancient warfare and the environment. Hunting was often been considered as a form of warfare, and art frequently portrayed humans in battle with animals. Armed conflict had its direct influences on the environment. Along with damage to settled agriculture, warfare had affected other lands such as pastures, brush lands, and forests. It is noted that birds, pigs, bears, rodents, snakes, bees, wasps, scorpions, beetles, assass…
How Natural is a Natural Disaster
Interview
Global Environmental History
Book Review| April 01 2010 Global Environmental History Global Environmental History. I. G. Simmons. J. Donald Hughes J. Donald Hughes Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2010) 84 (2): 245–246. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-84.2.245 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation J. Donald Hughes; Global Environmental History. Agricultural History 1 January 2010; 84 (2): 245…
Climate Change: A History of Environmental Knowledge
When I entered the storage facility of the U.S. National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL)1 at the foot of the Rocky Mountains west of Denver, I experienced the coldest temperature I had ever felt: −36°C
Holland Against the Sea
Dutch artists used mythological imagery to express the need to control water to defend their country, much of which was and is below sea level. In a chamber of the Water Board of Rhineland in Leide
Three Dimensions of Environmental History
Historians are sometimes accused of being light on theory, and environmental historians have not escaped this criticism, sometimes deserved. This essay maintains that environmental historians should increasingly investigate theoretical aspects of their subject, and encourages more prevalent reasoned discourse between multiple viewpoints. The essay does not set forth a theoretical structure, but explores three dimensions that may help to plan such…
Special Forum: Films Every Environmental Historian Should See
The Mosaic of Culture and Nature: Organization of Space in an Inhabited Cosmos
Henry David Thoreau remarked that he had traveled widely—in Concord, Massachusetts. An intentionally contradictory statement, it is nonetheless true if the landscape is composed of many interpenetrating biomes and cultural uses. Fields and forests, groves and gardens, towns and temples form the tesserae of a landscape mosaic embodying the interpenetration of culture and nature, and while such elements provide diversity, they can also, paradoxical…
Global environmental history: The long view
Looking ahead to the remaining decades of the twenty-first century, this essay considers four themes that seem certain to characterize the course of world environmental history in the long run. These are: (1) population growth; (2) local vs. global determination of policy; (3) threats to biodiversity; and (4) the supply of and demand for energy and materials. The conclusion, noting that each of these themes presents a challenge and that together …
What Books Should be More Widely Read in Environmental History
Mosaic Landscape and the Human Organization of Space
Palau: A parable for the twenty-first century
Everyone on the Pacific Island of Palau knows the story of the fish-bearing breadfruit tree of Ngibtal. It is carved and painted on the rafters of the bai, the traditional meetinghouse of each vill
Preface: Beginning with Rome
The looting of the past in Iraq
Social structure and environmental impact in the Roman empire
During the three hundred years after its founding by Augustus Caesar (27 BC–AD 14), the Roman Empire first reached a peak of economic growth and prosperity, and then suffered a severe crisis and de
Europe as Consumer of Exotic Biodiversity: Greek and Roman times
In ancient Greece and the Roman Empire there was keen interest in exotic species of animals and plants. Religious ceremonies and sacred groves included foreign species. Rulers had hunting enclosures patterned after the 'paradises' of Persian rulers. Both the Lyceum of Aristotle in Athens and the Museum of Alexandria had a menagerie and a botanical garden. The Romans collected animals for entertainment and slaughter in amphitheatres throughout the…
Fire: A Brief History
Journal Article Fire: A Brief History and Forests under Fire: A Century of Ecosystem Mismanagement in the Southwest Get access Fire: A Brief History. By Pyne Stephen J.. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. xvii + 204 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, bibliography, index. $18.95, paper.)Forests under Fire: A Century of Ecosystem Mismanagement in the Southwest. Edited by Huggard Christopher J. Gómez Arthur R.. (Tucson: University of Ariz…
Easter Island: Model for Environmental History
An Environmental Historian Looks at the 21st Century
The Top Ten
Global Dimensions of Environmental History
Research Article| February 01 2001 Global Dimensions of Environmental History J. Donald Hughes J. Donald Hughes Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2001) 70 (1): 91–101. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2001.70.1.91 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permission…
Island Trajectories
Sacred Groves and Conservation: The Comparative History of Traditional Reserves in the Mediterranean Area and in South India
Sacred groves in the ancient Mediterranean are compared with surviving groves of South India, particularly Uttara Kannada, to evaluate the roles of these refugia in maintaining balance between human groups and the ecosystems of which they are part. In the Mediterranean written records survive, and archaeological investigation provides some information. In South India, the authors observed a living if declining tradition which has persisted for mi…
Indian Agriculture in America: Prehistory to the Present
Journal Article Indian Agriculture in America: Prehistory to the Present. By R. Douglas Hurt. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987. xiii + 290 pp. $29.95.) Get access J. Donald Hughes J. Donald Hughes University of Denver Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 886–887, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901547 Published: 01 December 1988
Europe as Consumer of Exotic Biodiversity: Greek and Roman times
In ancient Greece and the Roman Empire there was keen interest in exotic species of animals and plants. Religious ceremonies and sacred groves included foreign species. Rulers had hunting enclosures patterned after the 'paradises' of Persian rulers. Both the Lyceum of Aristotle in Athens and the Museum of Alexandria had a menagerie and a botanical garden. The Romans collected animals for entertainment and slaughter in amphitheatres throughout the…
Three Dimensions of Environmental History
Historians are sometimes accused of being light on theory, and environmental historians have not escaped this criticism, sometimes deserved. This essay maintains that environmental historians should increasingly investigate theoretical aspects of their subject, and encourages more prevalent reasoned discourse between multiple viewpoints. The essay does not set forth a theoretical structure, but explores three dimensions that may help to plan such…
Global Dimensions of Environmental History
Research Article| February 01 2001 Global Dimensions of Environmental History J. Donald Hughes J. Donald Hughes Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2001) 70 (1): 91–101. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2001.70.1.91 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permission…
Dream interpretation in ancient civilizations
Dream interpretation was regarded by ancient peoples in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome as an art requiring intelligence and, sometimes, divine inspiration. It became a motif in literature. It was treated as a science by philosophers and physicians. Dreams were thought to come either as clear messages, or as symbols requiring interpretation. In a method called incubation, the dreamer could sleep in a sacred place in expectation of a dream th…
Theophrastus as Ecologist
How the Ancients Viewed Deforestation
Ecology in ancient civilizations
The classic Maya collapse
Climate Change: A History of Environmental Knowledge
When I entered the storage facility of the U.S. National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL)1 at the foot of the Rocky Mountains west of Denver, I experienced the coldest temperature I had ever felt: −36°C
Special Forum: Films Every Environmental Historian Should See
New Zealand: The Maori and Island Resources
Medieval Florence and the barriers to growth revisited
Rome's decline and fall: Ecological mistakes
Francis of Assisi and the Diversity of Creation
Francis’ view of nature has been seen as positive in an ecological sense even by those who are for the most part critical of Christianity’s attitude to nature, such as Lynn White, Jr. I argue that one element of Francis’ uniqueness was that he saw the diversity of life as an expression of God’s creativity and benevolence and attempted to carry out that vision in ethical behavior. Much of what has been written about him has precedents in tradition…
Ecology in ancient civilizations
American Indians in Colorado
Journal Article American Indians in Colorado. By J. Donald Hughes. (Boulder, Colo.: Pruett, 1977. viii + 143 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, andindex. Paper, $5.00.) Get access Robert E. Bieder Robert E. Bieder University of Illinois, Chicago Circle Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 4, March 1978, Page 1124, https://doi.org/10.2307/1890792 Published…
American Indians in Colorado
Journal Article American Indians in Colorado Get access American Indians in Colorado. By Hughes J. Donald. (Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing Company, 1977. viii, 143 p. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $5.00, paper.) Floyd O'Neil Floyd O'Neil University of Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 9, Issue 1, January 1978, Page 67, https://doi.org/10.2307/966901…
The Environmental Ethics of the Pythagoreans
Mountains without Handrails: Reflections on the National Parks
How the Ancients Viewed Deforestation
Theophrastus as Ecologist
Indian Agriculture in America: Prehistory to the Present
Journal Article Indian Agriculture in America: Prehistory to the Present. By R. Douglas Hurt. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987. xiii + 290 pp. $29.95.) Get access J. Donald Hughes J. Donald Hughes University of Denver Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 886–887, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901547 Published: 01 December 1988
American Indians in Colorado
The Ecology of the Ancient Greek World
Pan's Travail: Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans
The Hunters of Euboea: Mountain Folk in the Classical Mediterranean
The extension of power and altered land-use arrangements by institutions of the classical Mediterranean city, including deforestation, replacement of hunting by agriculture, and other environmental changes, moved toward assimilation of groups with traditional lifeways even as they were resisted by them. A hunter-farmer community on the mountainous periphery of a small port city is described in intimate detail by the Greek orator and philosopher, …
Francis of Assisi and the Diversity of Creation
Francis’ view of nature has been seen as positive in an ecological sense even by those who are for the most part critical of Christianity’s attitude to nature, such as Lynn White, Jr. I argue that one element of Francis’ uniqueness was that he saw the diversity of life as an expression of God’s creativity and benevolence and attempted to carry out that vision in ethical behavior. Much of what has been written about him has precedents in tradition…
Environment and Society in Roman North Africa: Studies in History and Archaeology , by Brent D. Shaw and, Rulers, Nomads, and Christians in Roman North Africa , by Brent D. Shaw
Now that the big trees are down∗
Bali and the green witch of the west
Classical athens and ecosystemic collapse
Medieval Florence and the barriers to growth
The Sacred Groves of South India: Ecology, Traditional Communities and Religious Change
Les forets sacrees du district de l'Uttara Kannada dans l'Etat de Karnataka dans le sud de l'Inde sont au nombre de plusieurs centaines. Traditionnellement, elles etaient controlees et protegees par les communautes villageoises. Plusieurs existent encore aujourd'hui et servent pour le culte, meme si elles ont diminue en surface et en nombre. Ce declin est du en partie aux changements religieux, dans le sens que l'essor de l'Hindouisme brahmanique…
Ancient Egypt and the question of appropriate technology
Mencius, ecologist
Rome's decline and fall: Ecological mistakes
Sacred groves and community power
Bryansk: The aftermath of Chernobyl
1998). Bryansk: The aftermath of Chernobyl. Capitalism Nature Socialism: Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 95-101
Medieval Florence and the barriers to growth revisited
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