Historical analysis in environmental law II: "The one came not near the other all the night"
Edvard Munch, Separation (1896) (Continuing the series on historical analysis in environmental law. Links to the full series and the article are here .) In May 2010 Environmental History, the leading journal in its field, published an article by Aaron Sachs on antebellum environmental thought as expressed in contemporary American cemeteries. A few months later legal historian Alfred Brophy published a blog post on American antebellum constitutionalism as expressed in speeches made in cemeteries. Though both pieces focused on the same cemeteries, with rich discussions of the political, social, and cultural contexts in which they operated, neither work made any reference to the other, nor, indeed, to the literature or historical sub-discipline in which the other was located. Three years later, both pieces were released in expanded form , again with no interaction between them or their scholarly worlds. This was not an isolated (non-)incident. Though the fields of environmental history...