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Article: drunks, lampposts, and environmental history
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- Environmental History
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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CopyrightCopyright Environmental History Jan 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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FUTURE AGENDAS in environmental history will be set fairly democratically, by the hundreds of scholars deciding what to work on and how to do it. To some extent, of course, those decisions will be shaped by the examples of admired scholars or by the siren call of paths of least resistance. But young people are often keen to do things differently from their elders, and often inclined to seek rather than shun the difficult paths-as they should be. Nonetheless, we elders (I am 49) are rarely reluctant to try to set agendas-nor should we be, as long as we do not mind much when our suggestions are ignored.
What I propose here is what I would like to see happen within environmental history, not ...