Articles by Steven Stoll
I write about the way people think about nature and the things they do with those ideas. I am especially interested in how economic systems shape the way we see the world. I call myself an environmental historian, but my work is related to geography, social ecology, and the political theory of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Most of my writing concerns agrarian society in North America because I have found that farming is the ideal vantage from which to observe the intersection of ideas, practices, economies, and landscapes.
Unemployment reached 8.5% in March of this year, but add in the once full-time, now part-time laborers, it may be as high as 15%. Yet my fellow rail commuters somewhere between New Haven and Grand …
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