Editors’ Note

Next article FreeEditors’ NoteEditors’ NoteStephen Brain, Mark D. Hersey, and Finis DunawayStephen Brain Search for more articles by this author , Mark D. Hersey Search for more articles by this author , and Finis Dunaway Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThe first issue of 2020 explores the relationship between humans and the natural world in five intriguing and geographically diverse instances. The outgoing president of the American Society for Environmental History, Graeme Wynn, edited his presidential address (“Framing an Ecology of Hope”) for publication in the journal and, in it, provides a comparison of two late twentieth-century Canadian intellectuals who charted paths toward ecological sustainability. The articles that follow take the reader on a whirlwind tour of fin-de-siècle Egypt, prewar Britain, stagflation-era United States, Maoist China, and an imaginary Hawaii (by way of Japan and Boston) in a future that never came to pass. In the Gallery essay, Claire Campbell takes us to the urban shoreline of Halifax, Nova Scotia, to consider how industrial modernity transformed the relationship between city and sea, raising questions about urban shorelines in an age of rising sea levels. Despite their diversity, the articles intersect in intriguing ways: for instance, Caleb Wellum’s energy independence movement helped to undermine the Hawaiian ecomodernist vision described by Stefan Huebner, and English efforts to impose their will on the landscape detailed by Samuel Grinsell reappear, albeit in altered form, in Peter Coates’s article about muskrats invading the English homeland. Whether looking at Egypt, China, or North America, these articles offer a reminder of the ways in which environmental history can illuminate familiar topics and, in so doing, add the context and nuance necessary to address the environmental challenges facing the world today. Next article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 25, Number 1January 2020 Published for the American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society Views: 80Total views on this site Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emz083HistoryPublished online December 20, 2019 © 2019 The Authors. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

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