For its advocacy in protecting and restoring historic Ellwood Manor, the Friends of Wilderness Battlefield, a civil war preservation, advocacy, and education non-profit received the Chairman’s Award for achievement in historic preservation by the Civil War Preservation Trust on Thursday March 4th, 2010. This marks the first time that this award, which is designated to recognize
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Professor Alfred Crosby’s 1986 book Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 is an earlier example of environmental history. Crosby asserts that Europeans, with their command and control of ocean navigation brought swifter regime change to the ecosystems of their colonial worlds. From smallpox to rats to oranges, Europeans picked up indigenous flora and The Cottage Garden by Christopher Lloyd & Richard Bird provides a good overview of traditional English cottage gardens, complete with illustrations, sample design types, and practical advice. Christopher Lloyd was a favorite garden writer in Britain for most of the twentieth century, and in this book he distills much of what he likes about traditional cottage gardens as well as what he dislikes about more contemporary attempts at historical reconstruction of  As Martin so succinctly puts it “contract archaeology exists to solve an internal [political] conflict.” Acknowledging that legacy does not demean the value of CRM in Sweden or anywhere else. Instead, it helps those in CRM to recognize that society values both preservation and development, and the conflicts that we experience as CRM practitioners between these two poles are there by  Haitian General Toussaint L'Ouverture who led the Haitians to freedom from direct French rule. When the slaves of Haiti won their independence from their French masters through war in 1804, Napoleon and his French government demanded that the ex-slaves pay reparations in the amount of 150 million francs in gold. That was an enormous |
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