The Cold War and the Anthropocene: 1945-25,945 A.D.
The Cold War and the Anthropocene: 1945-25,945 A.D. John McNeill Georgetown University Public Lecture Tuesday 26 October 2010 5-6.30 pm Venue: Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre 1, ANU We live in an era…
New book - Desert Channels: The Impulse to Conserve
Libby Robin, Chris Dickman, Mandy Martin CSIRO PUBLISHING, 352 pages, Hardback, Colour illustrations, ISBN:9780643097490, $59.95. Desert Channels is a book that combines art, science and history…
National Museum of Australia Student Prize 2011
The National Museum of Australia and the Australian Academy of Science through its National Committee for History and Philosophy of Science invite submissions for the 2011 National Museum of…
Journal of the History of Biology: environmental history issue
The next issue of the Journal of the History of Biology is a special issue on Environmental History. Libby Robin and Jane Carruthers are the guest editors, and there is a strong Australian and South…
NMA Student Prize 2010 winner
The winner of the 2010 NMA Student Prize in Australian Environmental History and the History of Australian Science is Luke Keogh of the University of Queensland for an essay entitled ‘Duboisia…
The Archaeology of Australia's Deserts
Australia is the driest inhabited continent – and our distinctive drylands make up the largest of the continent's biomes. The Archaeology of Australia's Deserts reviews and synthesizes the deep…
New environmental history: Pictures of Time Beneath
Pictures of Time Beneath: Science, Heritage and the Uses of the Deep Past by Kirsty Douglas Pictures of Time Beneath examines three celebrated heritage landscapes: Adelaide’s Hallett Cove, Lake…