Natures past : the environment and human history
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Natures past : the environment and human history
(The comparative studies in society and history book series)
University of Michigan Press, c2007
- : cloth
- : pbk
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 327-356
Contents of Works
- Introduction: Natures past and present environmental histories / Paolo Squatriti
- Distribution fights, coordination games, and lobster management / James Acheson
- Fruit trees and family trees in an anthropogenic forest : ethics of access, property zones, and environmental change on Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso
- Histories of colonialism and forestry in India / K. Sivaramakrishnan
- Revolutionary mosquitoes of the Atlantic world : malaria and independence in the United States of America / J.R. McNeill
- Sustainable development on China's frontier / Peter C. Perdue
- Naming the stranger : maize's journey to Africa / James C. McCann
- Two landscapes, two stories : Anglo-Saxon England and the United States / Nicholas Howe
- In search of natural identity : alpine landscape and the reconstruction of the Swiss nation / Oliver Zimmer
- Lawn-o-rama : the commodification of landscape in postwar America / Ted Steinberg
- Footprint metaphor and metabolic realities : environmental impacts of medieval European cities / Richard C. Hoffmann
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780472069606
Description
At the beginning of the twenty-first century environmental change is a pressing public issue, and not just in the rich countries of the northern hemisphere. "Natures Past" seeks to lend some historical depth to current debates about modifications of ecological processes and systems, and also to explore the global dimensions of the dynamic. The ten essays in "Natures Past" bridge the chasm between orthodox environmental history and other novel approaches to understanding the place of human communities in past biophysical environments. Discussions of malaria-bearing mosquitoes, Maine lobster fishing, Bornean durian husbandry, and American lawn mowing, among other things, suggest how ecology, culture, and market interact to change the fate, and the value, of nature in each context. This collection, comprised of contributions by anthropologists, foresters, historians, and literature specialists, shows that long before the twentieth century humans caused, worried about, and endured changes in the natural world they inhabited.
"Natures Past" thus creates better, more nuanced, richer, and more complex understandings of the longstanding dialectic between people and their environments, and introduces to readers the wealth of perspectives and insights that a careful consideration of past interactions between people and their natural environments makes possible.
- Volume
-
: cloth ISBN 9780472099603
Description
At the beginning of the twenty-first century environmental change is a pressing public issue, and not just in the rich countries of the northern hemisphere. ""Natures Past"" seeks to lend some historical depth to current debates about modifications of ecological processes and systems, and also to explore the global dimensions of the dynamic. The ten essays in ""Natures Past"" bridge the chasm between orthodox environmental history and other novel approaches to understanding the place of human communities in past biophysical environments. Discussions of malaria-bearing mosquitoes, Maine lobster fishing, Bornean durian husbandry, and American lawn mowing, among other things, suggest how ecology, culture, and market interact to change the fate, and the value, of nature in each context. This collection, comprised of contributions by anthropologists, foresters, historians, and literature specialists, shows that long before the twentieth century humans caused, worried about, and endured changes in the natural world they inhabited. ""Natures Past"" thus creates better, more nuanced, richer, and more complex understandings of the longstanding dialectic between people and their environments, and introduces to readers the wealth of perspectives and insights that a careful consideration of past interactions between people and their natural environments makes possible.
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