“Cow Trials, Climate Change, and the Causes of Violence,” Environmental History 25, no. 2 (April 1, 2020): 287–309, https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emz095.
This article explores reported cow trials in Mayo, Ireland during the 1641 Uprising. In it, I argue that the trials must be understood as part of a longer conflict over changes in land use and the introduction of commercial animal husbandry. These shifts increased vulnerability to climatic and economic shocks.
Image courtesy of the University of Edinburgh.
This article explores reported cow trials in Mayo, Ireland during the 1641 Uprising. In it, I argue that the trials must be understood as part of a longer conflict over changes in land use and the introduction of commercial animal husbandry. These shifts increased vulnerability to climatic and economic shocks.
Image courtesy of the University of Edinburgh.
“Environmental Knowledge, Expertise, and the Development of Slavery in Bermuda,” in Atlantic Environments and the American South, ed. Thomas Blake Earle and D. Andrew Johnson (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2020), 176–94.
This essay explores how English conceptions of Bermuda's physical environment and the desire for African and Afro-Caribbean agricultural expertise and environmental knowledge shaped the development of slavery in the early seventeenth-century English Atlantic World.
This essay explores how English conceptions of Bermuda's physical environment and the desire for African and Afro-Caribbean agricultural expertise and environmental knowledge shaped the development of slavery in the early seventeenth-century English Atlantic World.
“Atlantic Iron: Wood Scarcity and the Political Ecology of Early English Expansion,” The William and Mary Quarterly 73, no. 3 (July 2016): 389–426, https://doi.org/10.5309/willmaryquar.73.3.0389.
This article examines the Virginia Company's efforts to create an ironworks at Falling Creek. The planned works emerged in the context of expanded English iron production, increasing anxieties about wood scarcity, and intercolonial competition.
This article examines the Virginia Company's efforts to create an ironworks at Falling Creek. The planned works emerged in the context of expanded English iron production, increasing anxieties about wood scarcity, and intercolonial competition.
"‘Pirates’ and the Problems of Plantation in Seventeenth-Century Ireland," in Governing the Sea in the Early Modern Era: Essays in Honor of Robert C. Ritchie, ed. Peter C. Mancall and Carole Shammas (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library Press, 2015), 79-107.
This essay examines the illicit and quasi-legal maritime economy that emerged in Southwest Ireland during the Munster Plantation. By reconstructing the networks that connected the small town of Baltimore, Co. Cork, a hub of fishing and raiding, to the wider Atlantic World, I show that piracy, privateering, and smuggling were bound up in Ireland's broader economic development during the early seventeenth century.
This essay examines the illicit and quasi-legal maritime economy that emerged in Southwest Ireland during the Munster Plantation. By reconstructing the networks that connected the small town of Baltimore, Co. Cork, a hub of fishing and raiding, to the wider Atlantic World, I show that piracy, privateering, and smuggling were bound up in Ireland's broader economic development during the early seventeenth century.
“Taming the Wilderness in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Ireland and Virginia,” Environmental History 16, no. 4 (October 1, 2011): 610–32.
This piece examines how early modern English descriptions of Ireland and Virginia drew on descriptions of ideal nature and ideas of "improvement" found in gardening and husbandry manuals.
This piece examines how early modern English descriptions of Ireland and Virginia drew on descriptions of ideal nature and ideas of "improvement" found in gardening and husbandry manuals.
Keith Pluymers
