Gregory T Cushman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 528264 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gregory T Cushman |
| PRENOMES | Gregory T |
| SOBRENOME | Cushman |
| ASSINATURA | CUSHMAN G T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Kansas |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Ecologies of Resilience
The history of Rapa Nui has often been told as a cautionary tale meant to reflect on the destructive tendencies of our own civilization, but it looks quite different when told from a Rapanui perspective. This interdisciplinary study uses new source materials to explore an extraordinary story of Native resilience: seldom-used oral histories from Rapanui elders from the 1910s, a Rapanui-language account of its original settlement, and a newly recon…
Alfred W. Crosby Jr. (1931–2018)
Al Crosby is widely recognized as one of the founders of two influential new fields: environmental history and global history. He popularized three key concepts tied to the history of the New World encounter after 1492—the Columbian exchange, virgin soil epidemics, and ecological imperialism—that have now infiltrated at some level even the most elementary history textbooks. This is one of the foremost instances in which events from Latin America …
Global Markets Transformed 1870 – 1945
Geoffrey Parker. Global Crisis
This colossal study has accomplished something the epics of Gilgamesh and Noah never could; it convincingly links a truly global climate disaster to an epidemic of wars and rebellions that shook the whole world. According to Geoffrey Parker, the worst human suffering of the seventeenth century cannot be attributed to so-called acts of God. Instead, for region after region, he demonstrates how shortsighted choices by statesmen, the unprecedented m…
Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World
For centuries, bird guano has played a pivotal role in the agricultural and economic development of Latin America, East Asia and Oceania. As their populations ballooned during the Industrial Revolution, North American and European powers came to depend on this unique resource as well, helping them meet their ever-increasing farming needs. This book explores how the production and commodification of guano has shaped the modern Pacific Basin and th…
Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution
In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers
In December 1941, an avalanche of glacial ice in the Cordillera Blanca of Central Peru caused two highland lakes to abruptly empty their contents into the valley below. This massive outburst flood swept through the modern heart of Huaraz, the regional capital, then charged another 220 kilometers down the Santa River Valley to the Pacific, leaving 5,000 dead in its wake. This phenomenon and its close relative the huayco flood are as old as the And…
Humboldtian Science, Creole Meteorology, and the Discovery of Human-Caused Climate Change in South America
The belief that human land use is capable of causing large-scale climatic change lies at the root of modern conservation thought and policy. The origins and popularization of this belief were deeply politicized. Alexander von Humboldt's treatment of the Lake Valencia basin in Venezuela and the desert coast of Peru as natural laboratories for observing the interaction between geophysical and cultural forces was central to this discovery, as was Hu…
Special Forum
The Discovery of Global Warming (review)
Reviewed by: The Discovery of Global Warming Gregory T. Cushman (bio) The Discovery of Global Warming. By Spencer R. Weart. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. x+228. $24.95. Historian of physics Spencer Weart is deeply worried that the U.S. public does not understand enough of recent climate science to realize that global warming "is very likely," much less that it will likely cause "harm, widespread and grave" (p. 199). So he …
The Most Valuable Birds in the World”
This is the author's accepted manuscript, post peer-review. The publisher's official version is available electronically from: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3986000
De que color es el oro? Race, Environment, and the History of Cuban National Music, 1898-1958
De qué color es el oro? Race, Environment, and the History of Cuban National Music, 1898–1958 Gregory L. Cushman (bio) Modern Cuban identity is intimately tied to the perception that a poor Antillean "island of shacks" (isla de bohíos) became rich through its music.1 During the twentieth century, many writers have identified Cuba's national singularity with a supposed cultural miracle. Beginning in the 1920s, the new Cuban republic established it…
States of Nature
Scientists played a critical role in the reorganization of plantation agriculture in the Caribbean after slavery. They provided agroexporters with the knowledge, techniques, and attitudes to adapt to a series of ecological threats to their existence. In the process, scientists enabled them to subjugate vast stretches of the Caribbean to a handful of new crop varieties. This created new ecological problems to solve that perpetuated the need for ex…
El Niño in History
Geographer César Caviedes has been interested in the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon as long as anybody. I read this book with great anticipation, expecting an authoritative account of El Niño in history based on decades of experience. With these expectations, this account was quite disappointing, though it still provides some insights into the impact of climate on both Latin American and global history over the last two millennia.…
Humboldtian Science, Creole Meteorology, and the Discovery of Human-Caused Climate Change in South America
The belief that human land use is capable of causing large-scale climatic change lies at the root of modern conservation thought and policy. The origins and popularization of this belief were deeply politicized. Alexander von Humboldt's treatment of the Lake Valencia basin in Venezuela and the desert coast of Peru as natural laboratories for observing the interaction between geophysical and cultural forces was central to this discovery, as was Hu…
The Most Valuable Birds in the World”
This is the author's accepted manuscript, post peer-review. The publisher's official version is available electronically from: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3986000
Global Markets Transformed 1870 – 1945
Special Forum
De que color es el oro? Race, Environment, and the History of Cuban National Music, 1898-1958
De qué color es el oro? Race, Environment, and the History of Cuban National Music, 1898–1958 Gregory L. Cushman (bio) Modern Cuban identity is intimately tied to the perception that a poor Antillean "island of shacks" (isla de bohíos) became rich through its music.1 During the twentieth century, many writers have identified Cuba's national singularity with a supposed cultural miracle. Beginning in the 1920s, the new Cuban republic established it…
El Niño in History
Geographer César Caviedes has been interested in the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon as long as anybody. I read this book with great anticipation, expecting an authoritative account of El Niño in history based on decades of experience. With these expectations, this account was quite disappointing, though it still provides some insights into the impact of climate on both Latin American and global history over the last two millennia.…
The Discovery of Global Warming (review)
Reviewed by: The Discovery of Global Warming Gregory T. Cushman (bio) The Discovery of Global Warming. By Spencer R. Weart. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. x+228. $24.95. Historian of physics Spencer Weart is deeply worried that the U.S. public does not understand enough of recent climate science to realize that global warming "is very likely," much less that it will likely cause "harm, widespread and grave" (p. 199). So he …
The Most Valuable Birds in the World”
This is the author's accepted manuscript, post peer-review. The publisher's official version is available electronically from: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3986000
De que color es el oro? Race, Environment, and the History of Cuban National Music, 1898-1958
De qué color es el oro? Race, Environment, and the History of Cuban National Music, 1898–1958 Gregory L. Cushman (bio) Modern Cuban identity is intimately tied to the perception that a poor Antillean "island of shacks" (isla de bohíos) became rich through its music.1 During the twentieth century, many writers have identified Cuba's national singularity with a supposed cultural miracle. Beginning in the 1920s, the new Cuban republic established it…
States of Nature
Scientists played a critical role in the reorganization of plantation agriculture in the Caribbean after slavery. They provided agroexporters with the knowledge, techniques, and attitudes to adapt to a series of ecological threats to their existence. In the process, scientists enabled them to subjugate vast stretches of the Caribbean to a handful of new crop varieties. This created new ecological problems to solve that perpetuated the need for ex…
Special Forum
Humboldtian Science, Creole Meteorology, and the Discovery of Human-Caused Climate Change in South America
The belief that human land use is capable of causing large-scale climatic change lies at the root of modern conservation thought and policy. The origins and popularization of this belief were deeply politicized. Alexander von Humboldt's treatment of the Lake Valencia basin in Venezuela and the desert coast of Peru as natural laboratories for observing the interaction between geophysical and cultural forces was central to this discovery, as was Hu…
In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers
In December 1941, an avalanche of glacial ice in the Cordillera Blanca of Central Peru caused two highland lakes to abruptly empty their contents into the valley below. This massive outburst flood swept through the modern heart of Huaraz, the regional capital, then charged another 220 kilometers down the Santa River Valley to the Pacific, leaving 5,000 dead in its wake. This phenomenon and its close relative the huayco flood are as old as the And…
Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World
For centuries, bird guano has played a pivotal role in the agricultural and economic development of Latin America, East Asia and Oceania. As their populations ballooned during the Industrial Revolution, North American and European powers came to depend on this unique resource as well, helping them meet their ever-increasing farming needs. This book explores how the production and commodification of guano has shaped the modern Pacific Basin and th…
Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution
Geoffrey Parker. Global Crisis
This colossal study has accomplished something the epics of Gilgamesh and Noah never could; it convincingly links a truly global climate disaster to an epidemic of wars and rebellions that shook the whole world. According to Geoffrey Parker, the worst human suffering of the seventeenth century cannot be attributed to so-called acts of God. Instead, for region after region, he demonstrates how shortsighted choices by statesmen, the unprecedented m…
Global Markets Transformed 1870 – 1945
Alfred W. Crosby Jr. (1931–2018)
Al Crosby is widely recognized as one of the founders of two influential new fields: environmental history and global history. He popularized three key concepts tied to the history of the New World encounter after 1492—the Columbian exchange, virgin soil epidemics, and ecological imperialism—that have now infiltrated at some level even the most elementary history textbooks. This is one of the foremost instances in which events from Latin America …
Ecologies of Resilience
The history of Rapa Nui has often been told as a cautionary tale meant to reflect on the destructive tendencies of our own civilization, but it looks quite different when told from a Rapanui perspective. This interdisciplinary study uses new source materials to explore an extraordinary story of Native resilience: seldom-used oral histories from Rapanui elders from the 1910s, a Rapanui-language account of its original settlement, and a newly recon…
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