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Environmental History is the world’s leading scholarly journal in environmental history and the journal of record in the field. Published four times a year by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society, the journal brings together scholars and practitioners from the humanities, sciences, and social sciences to explore the changing relationships between humans and the environment over time.

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The January 2025 issue has articles about Iranian disasters, pre-nuclear Fukushima, Maoist water politics, Assyrian refugees, deep-sea mining, and not one but two articles on oysters: their decline as seen through cookbooks, and their export as seen in photographs. Plus book reviews and New Scholarship.

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Articles accepted for future issues of Environmental History are available as Ahead of Print from the University of Chicago Press.

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Please note: change to book review process

Books to be reviewed are now handled by the Environmental History book review editor. Publishers and authors who want their books reviewed will no longer send copies to the Forest History Society but instead directly to the book review editor. See our Submit page for details.

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