Alfred W. Crosby

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Alfred Worcester Crosby (born January 15, 1931 in Boston , Massachusetts , † March 14, 2018 in Nantucket , Massachusetts) was an American historian who worked at the University of Texas at Austin until his retirement in 1999 .

Live and act

Crosby received training at Harvard University and Boston University , where he completed his studies with a dissertation on Russian-American relations in the years 1793-1812. Crosby became known for addressing ecological factors in his historical analyzes. This is how he founded the theories on ecological imperialism as well as on the Columbian Exchange . Accordingly, he explained the success of the European settlers in America and Australia with circumstances that are based primarily on ecological and biological factors. The work of the Indian historian Ramachandra Guha is heavily influenced by the perspectives of Crosby.

Crosby was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995, and to the American Philosophical Society in 2000 . In 1987 he received a Guggenheim scholarship , and in 1995 the Finnish award "Academic" .

Works

  • Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy . WW Norton 2006
  • Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology Through History. Cambridge University Press 2002
  • The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society , 1250-1600. Cambridge University Press 1997
  • Germs, Seeds, and Animals: Studies in Ecological History . ME Sharpe 1994
  • America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 . Cambridge University Press 1989, 2003
  • The Columbian Exchange. Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 . Praeger, 2003 (first edition: 1972). Edition 2003 online on google.books
  • Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 . Cambridge University Press 1986, 1993, 2004

literature

  • John Gallup and Jeffrey Sachs, "Location, Location." Harvard International Review 21.1 (1998): 56-610. ProQuest. University of Washington, Lynnwood. November 2006.
  • Christopher Sellers, "Thoreau's Body." Environmental History 4.4 (1999): 486-514. ProQuest. University of Washington, Lynnwood. November 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Schwaller: Obit: Alfred W. Crosby . H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, March 15, 2018, accessed on March 17, 2018.
  2. ↑ America, Russia, Hemp, and Napoleon: American Trade with Russia and the Baltic, 1793-1812 . Ohio State University Press 1965
  3. ^ The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 . Greenwood Press 1972, new edition: Praeger Publishers 2003
personal data
SURNAME Crosby, Alfred W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crosby, Alfred Worcester (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian who worked at the University of Texas at Austin until his retirement in 1999
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 2018
Place of death Nantucket , Massachusetts