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1816: "The Mighty Operations of Nature": An Environmental History of the Year Without a Summer

Munger, Michael (University of Oregon, 2012)

The catastrophic eruption of the Indonesian volcano Mt. Tambora in April 1815, which ejected a cloud of sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere, plunged the world into a rapid temporary climate change event. A series of ...
Grave Concerns: Decay, Death, and Nature in the Early Republic

Leone, Steven (University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)

While multiple questions drive this project, one fundamental query lays at its center. How did American approaches to mortality, their own and others, during the early national period (roughly 1770 to 1850) shape both their ...
Ten Years of Winter: The Cold Decade and Environmental Consciousness in the Early 19th Century

Munger, Michael (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

Two volcanic eruptions in 1809 and 1815 shrouded the earth in sulfur dioxide and triggered a series of weather and climate anomalies manifesting themselves between 1810 and 1819, a period that scientists have termed the ...
The "World's Biggest Zoo"? Elephants, Ecological Change, and the Contested Legacies of Conservation in the Kruger National Park

Moore, Samuel (University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)

This thesis explores landscape change in one of Africa’s biggest parks from the perspectives of its managers, the international conservation community, and media in South Africa and the United States. The surprising history ...