Trumbull Library System recently issued the following announcement.
Join us for a two-part lecture covering the history of coastal communities from Iceland, Scotland, and the Netherlands, and the historical ties to New England. Known as maritime history, Prof. Roney will start in 800AD and make his way through the mid 1900s. Part two will look into modern environmental issues such as climate change, modern technology, and fisheries and aquaculture.
Registration recommended but not required.
Presenter, John Roney, a Sacred Heart University Professor and Trumbull resident, is a historian of modern Europe with particular interests in Ireland, the Low Countries (the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg), France, and Switzerland. This collection of states includes French, Dutch, Irish, and English-speaking regions of Europe, and also highlights some of the smaller states of Europe that were not incorporated into lager hegemonies as many pre-existing states fell pretty to more powerful overlords. In the last decade Roney has also turned to maritime environmental history, with a study of the history of commercial fishing and fisheries in the North Atlantic Ocean. This study incorporates an interest in the political-economy in this region as well as an attention to the historical ecology and oceanography within which the fishing industry developed.
Date: Thursday, March 31, 2022
Time: 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Time Zone: Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location: Community Room
Branch: Trumbull Library
Audience: Adults Seniors
Categories: Lectures & Presentations
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