Dr. Paul Warde

Biography

Paul Warde is a professor of Environmental History at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on environmental and economic social history, particularly the use of natural resources and how they shape working lives and communities. In 2018, he published two significant works: 'Invention Sustainability: Nature Destiny 1500-1870' and 'Environment: History Idea', co-written with Libby Robin and Sverker Sorlin. His current research investigates the economy and the relationships between the landscape and societal changes in south mid-Ulster during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as the Hebrides, especially Tiree, during that period. He is completing a book manuscript titled 'Ordinary Lives', which traces the economic social history of Ireland and Britain from the late seventeenth century to World War I through five family lines. Warde has published and edited numerous books, articles, and chapters focusing primarily on the early modern and modern history of Europe, including topics such as peasant societies, the Industrial Revolution, and common property systems. He directs the Centre for History and Economics at Magdalene College and serves as Research Director of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. Warde also supervises PhD students on various topics related to environmental economic history, welcomes research students interested in similar subjects, and teaches courses on the history of the British countryside and environmental arguments.

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