... of begging. Yet, their begging from gold miners was more than simply an act of self-sacrifice. Begging was also environmental labor and environmentally shaped labor. Begging was gendered. Begging was deeply interconnected with the U.S. settler empire, which included displacing Indigenous people, creating...

... disrupted existing geographies and foregrounded the relationship between settlers and the environment. In apprehending natural disasters scientists traced connections between the frequently tense social and economic conditions of settler colonies and their environmental settings. Environmental historians...

...Stanley Fonseca Between the early 1950s and 1970s, Palm Springs, California, a leisure and resort community in the Coachella Valley, entered into a dramatic era of growth driven by an unlikely factor: golf. Exclusive and elite country clubs employed new forms of environmental and social engineering...

... blue gum Australia South Asia California environment RUTH A. MORGAN Fueling the Colonial Future An Environmental History of the Blue Gum, from British India to California ABSTRACT As its record in California, southern India, and elsewhere suggests, of the many biotic exchanges of the long...

... into a massive, carceral state. © 2019 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association 2019 U.S.-Mexico Border borderlands fences environment undocumented immigration Border Patrol carceral state MARY E . MENDOZA Caging Out, Caging In: Building a Carceral State at the U.S-Mexico...

... acceptance of gay men in Hawai‘i that live on today. © 2013 by the Regents of the University of California 2013 colonialism imperialism homosexuality pinkwashing environment Native Hawaiians Lord of a Hawaiian Island Robert and John Gregg Allerton, Queerness, and the Erasure of Colonization...

... 2013 by the Regents of the University of California 2013 John Muir horticulture fruit growing agriculture California landscape environment John Muir s Orchard Home DAVID HICKMAN The author teaches in the history department at the University of California, Davis. The environmental pioneer...