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Welcome to H-ASEH!
H-ASEH networks scholars and others interested in the rapidly growing field of Environmental History. Environmental historians seek an understanding of the range of human interactions with the physicalenvironment in the past. The field has been around officially since the organization of the American Society for Environmental History (the co-sponsor of this list) in the early 1970s. However, historians havebeen researching interactions between humans and the environment since early times.
Environmental history is an interdisciplinary field. Scholars doing environmental history come from disciplines such as historical geography, landscape architecture, urban planning, archeology and anthropology, agricultural studies, sociology and natural sciences, such as biology and ecology, to name a few.
Environmental historians, who have been trained in history graduate schools, may have been trained in intellectual history or the varieties of social history. Many come to environmental history from a interest inregional studies. Much environmental history in recent years has been done by historians of the American West. Though very recently good regional studies have been international and comparative--from Africa, Europe, and Asia. Even a list of groups interested in environmental history this broad leaves out many practioners and many good studies. Perhaps the best way to learn about the field is to engage it. This forum is the right place to do that. Many of the leading professionals in the field participate in the discussion here.
Lurk for awhile if you like and you will no doubt learn much; or, pose questions that you may have about a particular topic to gain a variety of insights into it. A good way to see what's been happening on this list in past months is to get the archive files housed at MSU. Send an info command to listserv@h-net.msu.edu to get instructions on how to get those archives via e-mail. If you have a world wide web browser, look at the logs and other resources made available by H- ASEH via the web page (http://h-net.msu.edu/~aseh).
Again, welcome the list and I hope your participation will be enlightening--to everyone involved.
The Editors
Dennis Williams (discussion and book reviews) dwilliam@snu.edu
Mark Stoll (discussion and web) marks@admin.stedwards.edu
Sarah Elkind (Web) selkind@uwsp.edu
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