Pauline Maier Early American History, Environmental History Seminar
Panel Discussion: Common Spaces: Environmental History and the Study of Early America
Christopher Pastore, State University of New York at Albany; Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut at Storrs; Conevery Bolton Valencius, Boston College
Moderator: Matthew McKenzie, University of Connecticut at Avery Point
Moderator: Matthew McKenzie, University of Connecticut at Avery Point
Tuesday, March 6, 2018, 5:15PM - 7:30PM
This panel takes the opportunity to bring the fields of environmental and early American history into closer conversation. Environmental historians are concerned with concepts such as ecological imperialism and non-anthropocentric empires, built and natural environments, controlling and organizing space, and the relationship between borders and frontiers. How does or might this influence scholarship on early America? How can work on early American history enrich environmental historians’ understanding of empire, metropoles and borderlands, movement and colonization?
To RSVP: email seminars@masshist.org or call (617) 646-0579.