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Independent family-run scholarly press publishing books and journals on environment and society

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We're pleased to see this positive review of 'Nordic Climate Histories' in @hnetreviews.bsky.social: www.h-net.org/reviews/show... The book is available in paperback and #openaccess here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhist

03.03.2026 12:20 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Yes, the 'Grasping Soil' website is really nice: graspingsoil.org #envhum #envhist #soil

03.03.2026 10:55 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Book cover based on stylised painted art of someone digging in a large pile of soil with a shovel.

Book cover based on stylised painted art of someone digging in a large pile of soil with a shovel.

We're delighted to announce publication of 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for The Environmental Humanities' (E. Brownell, ed.) – exploring #soil as a vessel of human #history and point of view for inquiry. Available print or #openaccess here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist

03.03.2026 10:46 — 👍 49    🔁 29    💬 1    📌 0
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We hope you enjoy the new issue of 'Nomadic Peoples'! #pastoralism #nomads #subscribetoopen #openaccess

02.03.2026 10:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The issue’s topic is contextualised in a preface by Giordano Marmone and an overview article by John G. Galaty.

02.03.2026 10:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

There are also reviews of books by T. White ('China’s Camel Country', @uwapress.uw.edu); H. Kreutzmann ('Pamirian Crossroads', De Gruyter); I. Sigamany ('Nomadic Indigenous Peoples & the Law', Routledge); B. Meloni & F. Uleri (eds) ('Pastoralismo tra continuità e innovazione', Rosenberg & Sellier).

02.03.2026 10:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The new issue includes research articles on: water and oil in Turkana; collective land rights in Tanzania; governance of Moroccan collective lands; and protection of land rights in Tanzania. Also an opinion piece on the Chadian pastoral code, and a fieldnote from Bayanhongor (Munkerdene & Ahearn).

02.03.2026 10:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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We’re delighted that 'Nomadic Peoples' will once again be fully #openaccess throughout this year, through #subscribetoopen. Huge thanks to all of our subscriber-supporters who have collectively made this possible!

02.03.2026 10:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Issue 30.1 of ‘Nomadic Peoples’ is live! This special issue on ‘Collective Rights to Land and Resources: An Institutionalist Perspective on Pastoralism in Africa’ was guest edited by Giordano Marmone & Kelly Askew. #Openaccess here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpnp/cu... #pastoralism #nomads

02.03.2026 10:57 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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New open access ahead-of-print article! In 'Landscapes of Caste Exclusion', Nivedita Nath evaluates the role of caste in the colonial transformation of entangled subcontinental landscapes of forests and fields. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... 🗃 #envhist

28.02.2026 19:21 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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编译|殖民时期槟城乔治市的天气、公共卫生与城市治理

A 2020 E&H article by Fiona Williamson was translated into Chinese by Li Ruipeng. Read "生活在污秽与对健康的漠视之中” (‘Living in a State of Filth and Indifference to … Their Health’) here: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/MDYJqHU2W1... 🗃️ #envhist #chinesehistory

28.02.2026 19:15 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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The royal forests of Almeirim: A multifunctional landscape in the larger Ribatejo geographical-cultural area In this blog, linked to their recently published Open Access article (online first, February 2026) in Environment and History, ‘Multifunctional Landscapes in Central Mainland Portugal: The Royal Ad…

We've added a new post to our blog, by Koldo Trapaga-Monchet and Raúl Romero-Calcerrada on 'The royal forests of Almeirim: A multifunctional landscape in the larger Ribatejo geographical-cultural area'; here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/02/17/a... #envhist #portugal #forests @eandhwhp.bsky.social

17.02.2026 11:07 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
'Trees, We Breathe' – Exhibition at Wave Hill, Bronx (NY), Glyndor Gallery 31 May–30 November 2025 | Plant Perspectives

We've published a new #openaccess article ahead of print in 'Plant Perspectives', being Jennifer Karson's review of the exhibition 'Trees, We Breathe' at the Glyndor Gallery (Bronx, NY) in November 2025. Online here: www.doi.org/10.3197/WHPP... @plantperspectives.bsky.social #plantstudies #trees

15.02.2026 14:27 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The royal forests of Almeirim: A multifunctional landscape in the larger Ribatejo geographical-cultural area In this blog, linked to their recently published Open Access article (online first, February 2026) in Environment and History, ‘Multifunctional Landscapes in Central Mainland Portugal: The Royal Ad…

We've added a new post to our blog, by Koldo Trapaga-Monchet and Raúl Romero-Calcerrada on 'The royal forests of Almeirim: A multifunctional landscape in the larger Ribatejo geographical-cultural area'; here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/02/17/a... #envhist #portugal #forests @eandhwhp.bsky.social

17.02.2026 11:07 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
The cover for Plant Perspectives journal volume 3 / issue 1. The cover image shows the branches of a big tree with pink blossoms with a light blue sky.

The cover for Plant Perspectives journal volume 3 / issue 1. The cover image shows the branches of a big tree with pink blossoms with a light blue sky.

A new issue of Plant Perspectives will be out next month - right on time for spring 🌸

06.02.2026 09:45 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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We're delighted to announce #openaccess publication of a new edited volume, 'Rural Transitions in Mongolia and Central Asia: Pastoralism, Wellbeing and Economic Relations'; Ariell Ahearn, Gantulga Munkherdene and Takahiro Ozaki (eds). www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #pastoralism #centralasia

12.02.2026 10:59 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Squid That Changed North Korea’s Socialist Policies Today’s blog by Donghyun Woo introduces his recent article in Environment and History (online first, 2026), ‘Squid and Socialists: Power, Nature and the Unruly East Sea in North Korea, 1945–1…

We've added a post to our blog, by Donghyun Woo introducing his recent article in 'Environment and History', ‘Squid and Socialists: Power, Nature and the Unruly East Sea in North Korea, 1945–1964’: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/02/09/s... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist #cephalopods #korea #envhum

09.02.2026 20:27 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 2
'Trees, We Breathe' – Exhibition at Wave Hill, Bronx (NY), Glyndor Gallery 31 May–30 November 2025 | Plant Perspectives

We've published a new #openaccess article ahead of print in 'Plant Perspectives', being Jennifer Karson's review of the exhibition 'Trees, We Breathe' at the Glyndor Gallery (Bronx, NY) in November 2025. Online here: www.doi.org/10.3197/WHPP... @plantperspectives.bsky.social #plantstudies #trees

15.02.2026 14:27 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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We've published a new #openaccess article in 'Plant Perspectives'. Marion De Schepper writes 'Violently Vibrant, Obscurely (Un)Alike: Surrealist Representations of Plants in the Avant-Garde Magazine "Minotaure"': doi.org/10.3197/WHPP.... #plantstudies #surrealist @plantperspectives.bsky.social

05.02.2026 14:57 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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We're pleased to announce #openaccess publication of 'Global Environment' 19.1, a special issue on 'Global Fat Resources' guest edited by Elena Kochetkova, Matthias Heymann and Ines Prodöhl: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpge/cu... #envhist @globalenvironment.bsky.social

02.02.2026 17:16 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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We're delighted to announce #openaccess publication of a new edited volume, 'Rural Transitions in Mongolia and Central Asia: Pastoralism, Wellbeing and Economic Relations'; Ariell Ahearn, Gantulga Munkherdene and Takahiro Ozaki (eds). www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #pastoralism #centralasia

12.02.2026 10:59 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Squid That Changed North Korea’s Socialist Policies Today’s blog by Donghyun Woo introduces his recent article in Environment and History (online first, 2026), ‘Squid and Socialists: Power, Nature and the Unruly East Sea in North Korea, 1945–1…

We've added a post to our blog, by Donghyun Woo introducing his recent article in 'Environment and History', ‘Squid and Socialists: Power, Nature and the Unruly East Sea in North Korea, 1945–1964’: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/02/09/s... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist #cephalopods #korea #envhum

09.02.2026 20:27 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 2
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We’re pleased to announce publication of issue 10.1 of ‘The Journal of Population and Sustainability’, available #openaccess here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/JPS/issue/vi... @popnmatters.bsky.social #population #sustainability #envhum

31.01.2026 10:55 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae and the Dismal History of the Black Swamp In this blog, first published as a ‘Snapshot’ in Environment and History (November 2025) Eliot Fackler shows how the histories of western Lake Erie and the Black Swamp provide lessons f…

There's a new post on our blog, by Eliot Fackler on 'Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae and the Dismal History of the Black Swamp'; originally published in 'Environment and History' as a Snapshot article. Free to read here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/01/19/b... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist #algae #LakeErie

19.01.2026 16:18 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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In 'Squid and Socialists', Donghyun Woo analyses how squid in the East Sea undermined production quotas and eluded state planning from 1945 to 1964, showing how nonhuman herd agency exposed the limits of Pyongyang’s efforts to discipline oceanic nature. 🗃️ #envhist doi.org/10.3828/whpe...

06.02.2026 16:32 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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2 new ahead-of-print articles live now! In 'The Fugitive Steppe', Jackie Erlon-Baurjan examines how Russian imperial ambitions to transform the Kazakh steppe between 1840 and 1914 were shaped by and in turn reshaped understandings of climate. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... 🗃️ #envhist

06.02.2026 16:32 — 👍 8    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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Thank you for your support, and we hope you enjoy the new issue when it lands! #plantstudies #envhum

06.02.2026 10:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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To keep it #openaccess, though, we need your help! Please, if you value this journal’s work, ask your institution to consider subscribing to it directly under our #subscribetoopen offer, or indirectly via our ‘Environment and Society’ package (www.whpress.co.uk/publications...).

06.02.2026 10:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We’re doing everything we can to keep ‘Plant Perspectives’ #openaccess without author fees. It’s clearly relevant to a diverse and enthusiastic community of interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners. The outlook for publishing top quality material over the next few years could not be brighter.

06.02.2026 10:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Here’s a preview of the cover and contents of ‘Plant Perspectives’ 3.1, forthcoming in April. #plantstudies #envhum @plantperspectives.bsky.social www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index

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