Northwestern University, PhD 1999

Karl Appuhn
Associate Professor of History And Italian
Environmental History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, History of Animals, Mediterranean History, Italian Renaissance.
Books
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Winner, Herbert Baxter Adams Prize (American Historical Association), Charles Weyerhaeuser Prize (Forest History Society) , Gladys Krieble Delmas Prize (Renaissance Society of America)(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)
Articles
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Ecologies of Beef: Eighteenth-Century Epizootics and the Environmental History of Early Modern EuropeEnvironmental History 268-87 (2010)
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Friend or Flood? The Dilemmas of Flood Control in Late Renaissance VeniceThe Nature of Cities: New Approaches to Urban Environmental Historyed. Andrew Isenberg (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2006) 79-102
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Tools for the Development of the European EconomyA Companion to the History of the Renaissance Worlded. Guido Ruggiero (London: Blackwell, 2002) 259-78
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Politics, Perception, and the Meaning of Landscape in Late Medieval Venice: Marco Cornaro’s 1442 Inspection of Firewood SuppliesInventing Medieval Landscapes: Senses of Place in Western Europeeds. John Howe and Michael Wolfe (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2002) 70-88
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Inventing Nature: Forests, Forestry, and State Power in Renaissance VeniceThe Journal of Modern History 851-89 (2000)Alice Hamilton Prize (American Society for Environmental History)
Contact Information
Karl Appuhn
Associate Professor of History And Italian appuhn@nyu.edu 19 University Place, Room 204Phone: (212) 998-8621
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30-4:45