
Interpreting the Environment at Museums and Historic Sites
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Interpreting the Environment at Museums and Historic Sites provides a tool kit designed to help you research environmental history, document evidence of human influence on land and the environment over time, and tailor that knowledge to new public engagement. It proposes a multi-disciplinary approach that requires expertise in the humanities as well as the sciences and social sciences to best understand space and place over time. It incorporates case studies of the theory and method of environmental history to explore how human goals take lasting shape in the environment - creating working environments, getting water, generating and harnessing power, growing food, traveling and trading, building things, and preserving natural landscapes.
Features include the Interpreting the Environment Tool Kit to help you launch the good work of interpreting the environment:
Raw Materials (the evidence): landscape, ecosystems, artifacts, and the built environmentPreparation (methods): thinking like a naturalist/scientist; thinking like a historian; combining approachesPlanning (envisioning the goal): proactive message, stewardship, sustainabilityPartnerships (sharing work): strength in numbers; allying across disciplinary divides; united in efforts to inform the public about their individual and collective effects on the landscape and the environmentPotential: educating the public about people and places is part of a world-wide goal with the cumulative effect of saving the planet, one story at a time.A Timeline and Bibliographic essay round out the book's resources.
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David D. Vail, PhD, has training in environmental history, agricultural history, and science and technology, earning a PhD at Kansas State University. He is assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. His book, Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America's Grasslands since 1945 (University of Alabama Press, 2018) is part of the NEXUS Series: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine. He is book review editor for The Public Historian (National Council on Public History), and a member of the editorial committee for Agricultural History.
Content
Foreword by John C.F. Luzader
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1: A Primer on the Environment, Cultural Heritage, and History Interpretation
Chapter 1: Exploring Environmental History
Chapter 2: Thinking Historically about the Environment
Chapter 3: Constructing Stories about Humans and the Environment
Part 2: Telling Stories about Humans and Their Environments: Topics and Practice
Chapter 4: Creating Working Environments
Chapter 5: Getting Water
Chapter 6: Generating and Harnessing Power
Chapter 7: Growing Food
Chapter 8: Traveling and Trading
Chapter 9: Building Things
Chapter 10: Preserving and Conserving Natural Landscapes
Conclusion
Bibliographic Essay
Timeline of Environmental Ideas, Policies, and Legislation
About the Authors
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