Databases

The study of environmental history emerged in the 1960s, inspired by the popularity of emerging environmentalist movements, but concerns about human intervention and interaction with the natural environment can be traced much further back. Starting in the late nineteenth century, in direct response to the Industrial Revolution, forces in social and political spheres across the globe struggled to balance the good of the public and the planet against the economic exploitation of resources. In Environmental History, researchers may explore the history of the environment and conservation efforts across the globe from the late 1800s onwards.

Our Library subscribes both of the following two parts of the database:

1) Conservation and Public Policy in America, 1870–1980
2) Colonial Policy and Global Development: 1896-1993

The database is also accessible via Gale Primary Sources.