Entire of itself? Towards an environmental history of islands
Prokic, M.; Simková, P. (Ed.) (2024). Entire of itself? Towards an environmental history of islands. The White Horse Press: Winwick. ISBN 978-1-912186-82-2. 367 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.3197/63831593227779
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- Prokic, M., redacteur
- Simková, P., redacteur
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- Prokic, M.; Simková, P. (2024). Introduction, in: Prokic, M. et al. Entire of itself? Towards an environmental history of islands. pp. 11-26, meer
- Proctor, T.W. (2024). The environments of Late Ancient Ephesus: A history in three islands, in: Prokic, M. et al. Entire of itself? Towards an environmental history of islands. pp. 29-49, meer
- Prokic, M.; Petric, H. (2024). Nature(s) of power: Environment, politics and prestige on Brijuni Islands in the twentieth century, in: Prokic, M. et al. Entire of itself? Towards an environmental history of islands. pp. 51-75, meer
- Djordjevski, J. (2024). Sailing through heritage: Nautical tourism, environmental protection, conflict and the making of the Kornati National Park in socialist Yugoslavia, in: Prokic, M. et al. Entire of itself? Towards an environmental history of islands. pp. 77-98, meer
- Westergaard, G. (2024). Ghostly presences: Giant lizards and conservation on Culebra Island, in: Prokic, M. et al. Entire of itself? Towards an environmental history of islands. pp. 99-120, meer
- Mukherjee, J.; Ghosh, R.; Ghosh, P. (2024). Quilting the ‘Brown hole’ in environmental history: Muddy materialities of Bengal, in: Prokic, M. et al. Entire of itself? Towards an environmental history of islands. pp. 121-145, meer
- De Winter, W. (2024). Refuge and hell itself: How two Pacific islands shaped the buccaneer presence from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century, in: Prokic, M. et al. Entire of itself? Towards an environmental history of islands. pp. 149-170, meer
- Monaghan, T. (2024). Amami and Amami: Confecting Sugar Island in the East China Sea, in: Prokic, M. et al. Entire of itself? Towards an environmental history of islands. pp. 171-190, meer
- Hanson, T.A. (2024). Expendable Enewetak: An environmental history of a cold war islandscape, in: Prokic, M. et al. Entire of itself? Towards an environmental history of islands. pp. 191-213, meer
- Simková, P. (2024). The urban islands: Connection and remoteness in the history of Gallops Island in Boston Harbor, in: Prokic, M. et al. Entire of itself? Towards an environmental history of islands. pp. 215-236, meer
- Banerjee, R. (2024). Island palimpsest: Understanding Neil Island's transition through settlers' oral recollections, in: Prokic, M. et al. Entire of itself? Towards an environmental history of islands. pp. 237-256, meer
- Holstein, P.; Monnier, J.-M.; Corral-Broto, P. (2024). Lost Eden: An environmental history of the plantation system on the Island of La Réunion (1638-1960), in: Prokic, M. et al. Entire of itself? Towards an environmental history of islands. pp. 259-281, meer
- Meeks, J. (2024). The savage state: Humans, nature and governance in eighteenth-century Corsica, in: Prokic, M. et al. Entire of itself? Towards an environmental history of islands. pp. 283-304, meer
- Prokic, M. (2024). The island of violence: Goli Otok, the Yugoslav prisonscape, in: Prokic, M. et al. Entire of itself? Towards an environmental history of islands. pp. 305-326, meer
- Wescott, J. (2024). Pristine grounds, plastic histories: Narrating Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, in: Prokic, M. et al. Entire of itself? Towards an environmental history of islands. pp. 327-348, meer
- Prokic, M.; Simková, P. (2024). Conclusion: Islands past and present, in: Prokic, M. et al. Entire of itself? Towards an environmental history of islands. pp. 349-354, meer
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| Abstract |
The study of islands is booming. Small wonder: islands have played a key role in the history of continents, have been crucial locales of state-making, have served dictatorships as sites of prison systems and have acted as frontiers and stepping stones of empires. However, the role that island environments have played in creating and shaping these histories has so far received little attention. To understand why an island became a penal colony, an atomic test site or a tourist destination we need to take a close look at its environmental peculiarities: its physical shape, its geology, its climate, its flora and fauna, and its position vis-à-vis other places. And to more deeply comprehend an island’s place in history we must consider the changing ways in which it was perceived, used, valued or dismissed, protected or mistreated over time. Through fourteen stories of islands and archipelagos from around the globe Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands showcases islands as dynamic entities that both shape history and are shaped by it. Covering time periods from antiquity to the present day, Entire of Itself? attempts a group portrait of this exceptional category of places in the context of environmental history. Exploring the intertwined temporal, material and identity layers of island environments, and their transformations in response to human endeavours of conservation, exploitation and experimentation, the contributions in this volume challenge the traditional center-periphery perspective, and instead take an island-centred approach, delving into both the islands’ own stories and their role in larger historical developments. |
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