Karl Jacoby
Biographic Data
| ID | 231583 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karl Jacoby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karl |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacoby |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Classe et histoire environnementale. Les leçons de la « guerre des Adirondacks »
Cet article (publié à l’origine en anglais dans la revue Environmental History en 1997) s’appuie sur le conflit qui a eu lieu au début des années 1900 dans le parc d’État d’Adirondack, dans le nord de l’État de New York, pour encourager les historiens de l’environnement à accorder davantage d’attention à la classe sociale en tant que catégorie d’analyse. Les premiers historiens de l’environnement avaient tendance à négliger la classe sociale pour…
L’historien et la guerre des natures. Ce que la conservation fait aux subalternes: Un entretien avec Karl Jacoby & Guillaume Blanc
Cet entretien croisé entre Karl Jacoby et Guillaume Blanc offre une mise en perspectives internationales des luttes engendrées par l’appropriation nationale de terres considérées comme « naturelles » par les dominants, au détriment des populations subalternes qui y vivent. De générations, d’espaces académiques et de terrains de recherche nationaux différents, l’un et l’autre ont grandement contribué à faire l’histoire des parcs nationaux. Leur di…
Introduction: New Voices in Settler Colonial Studies in a Time of Crisis
Slaves by Nature? Domestic Animals and Human Slaves
The human ‘invention’ of domesticating wild animals predates the adoption of agriculture, having begun some 2,000 years earlier when humans and dogs first hunted together. All the animals that humans domesticated — except for the solitary house cat — were social animals, accustomed to living in the wild in groups. There is strong reason to believe that slavery’s connection with domestic animals extends beyond these theoretical parallels to a deep…
After 1776: Native Nations, Settler Colonialism, and the Meaning of America
On 2 November 2020, just hours before a slim majority of Americans rejected his presidency, Donald Trump issued an executive order establishing a “1776 Commission” designed to counter “one-sided an
Afterword: On Moral Ecologies and Archival Absences
Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South
Over the past decade and a half, historians of the United States have begun to reveal the deep intertwining of the national park system with the displacement of indigenous peoples. As highlighted i
Golden State, genocide state
In the autumn of 2015, a controversy erupted at Sacramento State University after Chiitaanibah Johnson, a student of Navajo/Maidu ancestry, contested her history professor’s assertion that genocide
On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest
Journal Article On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest Get access David Wallace Adams and Crista DeLuzio. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. xii, 353 pp. Paper, $29.95. Cloth, $70.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 3, December 2014, Pages 889–890, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau593 Published: 01 December 2014
Indigenous Empires and Native Nations: Beyond History and Ethnohistory in Pekka Hämäläinen's the Comanche Empire
How should historians write Native history? To what extent should one privilege Native terms, sources, chronologies, and epistemologies? And to what extent should historians align Native history with concepts developed for other peoples and places? These crucial questions about emic (insider) and etic (outsider) approaches to the past are cast into sharp relief in Pekka Hämäläinen's award‐winning The Comanche Empire . This essay charts the perils…
Ken Burns Gone Wild: Naturalizing the Nation in The National Parks: America's Best Idea
The release of Ken Burns's documentary on the national parks is to be celebrated for bringing national attention to the field of environmental history. Yet for all the movie's strengths, Burns only partially engaged two concepts central to contemporary environmental history: social difference and the cultural construction of nature. As a result, the series devoted less attention than it might have to such important issues as the removal of Native…
The broad platform of extermination: Nature and violence in the nineteenth century North American borderlands
This article investigates the dominant trope in the nineteenth century discourse on Native Americans extermination through a historical analysis of the experience of the Apache people of the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. Much of the appeal of extermination for Anglo-Americans was the notion's convenient ability to naturalize the violence of settler colonialism—an impulse that rendered the nineteenth century the “era of extermination.” In contrast, Apa…
Racial Borders and Historical Borderlands: African Americans in Latin America
In 1852, Frederick Douglass's one-time coeditor of the North Star newspaper, Martin Delany, wrote a tract entitled The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States. In it, Delany advocated that African Americans, in the language of the day, colonize themselves outside of the United States in what he considered to be the far more receptive nations of Mexico and Central America. “The advantages to the col…
Landscapes of Fraud: Mission Tumacácori, the Baca Float, and the Betrayal of the O'odham . Thomas E. Sheridan
Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act
Do environmental historians really need yet another biography of a heroic environmentalist? The formula would seem so familiar at this point to have become trite. A lone, invariably white individual—the usual suspects include Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Gifford Pinchot, or, in those rare cases where one includes a woman, Rachel Carson—bravely protects nature against the threats posed by a callously capitalist American society. Y…
Between North and South: The Alternative Borderlands of William H. Ellis and the African American Colony of 1895
In the Absence of Predators: Conservation and Controversy on the Kaibab Plateau
Journal Article In the Absence of Predators: Conservation and Controversy on the Kaibab Plateau Get access In the Absence of Predators: Conservation and Controversy on the Kaibab Plateau. By Young Christian C.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. 269 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95, cloth; 37.95, paper.) Karl Jacoby Karl Jacoby Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell
William Henry Holmes and the Rediscovery of the American West. By Kevin J. Fernlund. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. xx, 300 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8263-2127-5.) Although A River Running West represents a remarkable scholarly achievement by a distinguished American historian, it inevitably invites comparison with Wallace Stegner's Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West. Published in 19…
The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains
Over the past decade, Dan Flores has emerged as one of the leading historians of North America’s environment. For much of his impressive career, Flores’s preferred genre has been the essay rather than the monograph. His latest book, The Natural West, proves no exception to this trend. Despite an appearance that initially suggests a work with a single, unified narrative, The Natural West is, in fact, an anthology of ten of Flores’s essays—the majo…
Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
Class and Environmental History: Lessons from “The War in the Adirondacks”
Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West
Journal Article Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West Get access Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West. By Langston Nancy. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995. xii + 368 pp. Illustrations, map, charts, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.) Karl Jacoby Karl Jacoby Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Weste…
Go West Young Man! Horace Greeley's Vision for America
Slaves by nature? Domestic animals and human slaves
(1994). Slaves by nature? Domestic animals and human slaves. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 89-99
Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
Slaves by nature? Domestic animals and human slaves
(1994). Slaves by nature? Domestic animals and human slaves. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 89-99
A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell
William Henry Holmes and the Rediscovery of the American West. By Kevin J. Fernlund. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. xx, 300 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8263-2127-5.) Although A River Running West represents a remarkable scholarly achievement by a distinguished American historian, it inevitably invites comparison with Wallace Stegner's Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West. Published in 19…
Class and Environmental History: Lessons from “The War in the Adirondacks”
Indigenous Empires and Native Nations: Beyond History and Ethnohistory in Pekka Hämäläinen's the Comanche Empire
How should historians write Native history? To what extent should one privilege Native terms, sources, chronologies, and epistemologies? And to what extent should historians align Native history with concepts developed for other peoples and places? These crucial questions about emic (insider) and etic (outsider) approaches to the past are cast into sharp relief in Pekka Hämäläinen's award‐winning The Comanche Empire . This essay charts the perils…
The broad platform of extermination: Nature and violence in the nineteenth century North American borderlands
This article investigates the dominant trope in the nineteenth century discourse on Native Americans extermination through a historical analysis of the experience of the Apache people of the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. Much of the appeal of extermination for Anglo-Americans was the notion's convenient ability to naturalize the violence of settler colonialism—an impulse that rendered the nineteenth century the “era of extermination.” In contrast, Apa…
On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest
Journal Article On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest Get access David Wallace Adams and Crista DeLuzio. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. xii, 353 pp. Paper, $29.95. Cloth, $70.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 3, December 2014, Pages 889–890, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau593 Published: 01 December 2014
Ken Burns Gone Wild: Naturalizing the Nation in The National Parks: America's Best Idea
The release of Ken Burns's documentary on the national parks is to be celebrated for bringing national attention to the field of environmental history. Yet for all the movie's strengths, Burns only partially engaged two concepts central to contemporary environmental history: social difference and the cultural construction of nature. As a result, the series devoted less attention than it might have to such important issues as the removal of Native…
Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act
Do environmental historians really need yet another biography of a heroic environmentalist? The formula would seem so familiar at this point to have become trite. A lone, invariably white individual—the usual suspects include Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Gifford Pinchot, or, in those rare cases where one includes a woman, Rachel Carson—bravely protects nature against the threats posed by a callously capitalist American society. Y…
Slaves by nature? Domestic animals and human slaves
(1994). Slaves by nature? Domestic animals and human slaves. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 89-99
Go West Young Man! Horace Greeley's Vision for America
Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West
Journal Article Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West Get access Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West. By Langston Nancy. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995. xii + 368 pp. Illustrations, map, charts, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.) Karl Jacoby Karl Jacoby Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Weste…
Class and Environmental History: Lessons from “The War in the Adirondacks”
Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell
William Henry Holmes and the Rediscovery of the American West. By Kevin J. Fernlund. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. xx, 300 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8263-2127-5.) Although A River Running West represents a remarkable scholarly achievement by a distinguished American historian, it inevitably invites comparison with Wallace Stegner's Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West. Published in 19…
The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains
Over the past decade, Dan Flores has emerged as one of the leading historians of North America’s environment. For much of his impressive career, Flores’s preferred genre has been the essay rather than the monograph. His latest book, The Natural West, proves no exception to this trend. Despite an appearance that initially suggests a work with a single, unified narrative, The Natural West is, in fact, an anthology of ten of Flores’s essays—the majo…
In the Absence of Predators: Conservation and Controversy on the Kaibab Plateau
Journal Article In the Absence of Predators: Conservation and Controversy on the Kaibab Plateau Get access In the Absence of Predators: Conservation and Controversy on the Kaibab Plateau. By Young Christian C.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. 269 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95, cloth; 37.95, paper.) Karl Jacoby Karl Jacoby Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
Between North and South: The Alternative Borderlands of William H. Ellis and the African American Colony of 1895
Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act
Do environmental historians really need yet another biography of a heroic environmentalist? The formula would seem so familiar at this point to have become trite. A lone, invariably white individual—the usual suspects include Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Gifford Pinchot, or, in those rare cases where one includes a woman, Rachel Carson—bravely protects nature against the threats posed by a callously capitalist American society. Y…
Racial Borders and Historical Borderlands: African Americans in Latin America
In 1852, Frederick Douglass's one-time coeditor of the North Star newspaper, Martin Delany, wrote a tract entitled The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States. In it, Delany advocated that African Americans, in the language of the day, colonize themselves outside of the United States in what he considered to be the far more receptive nations of Mexico and Central America. “The advantages to the col…
Landscapes of Fraud: Mission Tumacácori, the Baca Float, and the Betrayal of the O'odham . Thomas E. Sheridan
The broad platform of extermination: Nature and violence in the nineteenth century North American borderlands
This article investigates the dominant trope in the nineteenth century discourse on Native Americans extermination through a historical analysis of the experience of the Apache people of the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. Much of the appeal of extermination for Anglo-Americans was the notion's convenient ability to naturalize the violence of settler colonialism—an impulse that rendered the nineteenth century the “era of extermination.” In contrast, Apa…
Ken Burns Gone Wild: Naturalizing the Nation in The National Parks: America's Best Idea
The release of Ken Burns's documentary on the national parks is to be celebrated for bringing national attention to the field of environmental history. Yet for all the movie's strengths, Burns only partially engaged two concepts central to contemporary environmental history: social difference and the cultural construction of nature. As a result, the series devoted less attention than it might have to such important issues as the removal of Native…
Indigenous Empires and Native Nations: Beyond History and Ethnohistory in Pekka Hämäläinen's the Comanche Empire
How should historians write Native history? To what extent should one privilege Native terms, sources, chronologies, and epistemologies? And to what extent should historians align Native history with concepts developed for other peoples and places? These crucial questions about emic (insider) and etic (outsider) approaches to the past are cast into sharp relief in Pekka Hämäläinen's award‐winning The Comanche Empire . This essay charts the perils…
On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest
Journal Article On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest Get access David Wallace Adams and Crista DeLuzio. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. xii, 353 pp. Paper, $29.95. Cloth, $70.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 3, December 2014, Pages 889–890, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau593 Published: 01 December 2014
Golden State, genocide state
In the autumn of 2015, a controversy erupted at Sacramento State University after Chiitaanibah Johnson, a student of Navajo/Maidu ancestry, contested her history professor’s assertion that genocide
Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South
Over the past decade and a half, historians of the United States have begun to reveal the deep intertwining of the national park system with the displacement of indigenous peoples. As highlighted i
Afterword: On Moral Ecologies and Archival Absences
Slaves by Nature? Domestic Animals and Human Slaves
The human ‘invention’ of domesticating wild animals predates the adoption of agriculture, having begun some 2,000 years earlier when humans and dogs first hunted together. All the animals that humans domesticated — except for the solitary house cat — were social animals, accustomed to living in the wild in groups. There is strong reason to believe that slavery’s connection with domestic animals extends beyond these theoretical parallels to a deep…
After 1776: Native Nations, Settler Colonialism, and the Meaning of America
On 2 November 2020, just hours before a slim majority of Americans rejected his presidency, Donald Trump issued an executive order establishing a “1776 Commission” designed to counter “one-sided an
Introduction: New Voices in Settler Colonial Studies in a Time of Crisis
Classe et histoire environnementale. Les leçons de la « guerre des Adirondacks »
Cet article (publié à l’origine en anglais dans la revue Environmental History en 1997) s’appuie sur le conflit qui a eu lieu au début des années 1900 dans le parc d’État d’Adirondack, dans le nord de l’État de New York, pour encourager les historiens de l’environnement à accorder davantage d’attention à la classe sociale en tant que catégorie d’analyse. Les premiers historiens de l’environnement avaient tendance à négliger la classe sociale pour…
L’historien et la guerre des natures. Ce que la conservation fait aux subalternes: Un entretien avec Karl Jacoby & Guillaume Blanc
Cet entretien croisé entre Karl Jacoby et Guillaume Blanc offre une mise en perspectives internationales des luttes engendrées par l’appropriation nationale de terres considérées comme « naturelles » par les dominants, au détriment des populations subalternes qui y vivent. De générations, d’espaces académiques et de terrains de recherche nationaux différents, l’un et l’autre ont grandement contribué à faire l’histoire des parcs nationaux. Leur di…
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