O'Rourke, Stephanie. Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction: Europe and Its Colonial Networks, 1780–1850. : University of Chicago Press, 2025. Illustrations. 240 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780226841557. Reviewed by Caitlin Vandertop (University of Warwick) Published on H-Environment (June, 2026) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Painting and Genre Conference

Join author Stephanie O'Rourke for a panel discussion with professors John Tresch and Susan Siegfried to mark the launch of O'Rourke's major new book, Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction: Euro...

Healthcare professionals must reject flawed racial generalisations, writes Jasmeen Kanwal Institutional racism in healthcare has received increased coverage in recent years, including in The BMJ ’s ...

O’Rourke argues that artistic representations played a pivotal role in shaping how people thought about the natural world during the Industrial Revolution.   In the late eighteenth and early nineteent...

Public two-day kick off seminar for research project Norwegian Wood: Extraction landscapes, art and visual culture in Denmark and Norway 1730 to 1860.

This panel will explore the complex interplay of colonial wealth and industrial development in British landscapes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As Britain’s imperial reach expanded, weal...

The AAH’s dedicated resource portal on antiracism and decolonial approaches, established in 2020 during the global pandemic in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, represents a key milestone in...

Call for papers: Exiles, Émigrés and Expatriates in Romantic-Era Paris and London, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris,12-13 April 2018

Exploring the historical origins of extraction and the growing field of Geoaesthetics, this conference queries how artists mined the geological imagination during this period. Presentations will respo...

Museums and gardens must become spaces that help us learn not only about biological life and human history, but also the colonialist and capitalist logic that still governs our everyday lives.

The early nineteenth-century artist John Martin bore witness to a rapidly carbonising Britain. Although he is most famous for his dramatic portrayals of epic, historical…

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