Nature's end : history and the environment
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Nature's end : history and the environment
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
- : hardback
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  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
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Environmental History as a distinct discipline is now over a generation old, with a large and diverse group of practitioners around the globe. This book provides a reflection on the achievements, diversity, and direction of environmental history in its varied national, international and continental contexts.
Table of Contents
- Notes on Contributors Preface Introduction
- S.Soerlin & P.Warde PART I: THE RISE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL Imperialism and Environmental Change: Unearthing the Origins and Evolution of Global Environmental History
- R.Grove & V.Damodaran Habitat, Possession and Community: Reflections on the History of Conservation Ideas
- B.Adams The Field of Action: Agriculture and the Defining of the Environment in Pre-Industrial Europe
- P.Warde The Global Warming That Did Not Happen: Historicizing Glaciology and Climate Change
- S.Soerlin Genealogies of the Ecological Moment: Planning, Complexity and the Emergence of 'the Environment' as Politics in West Germany, 1949-1982
- H.Nehring PART II: HISTORY AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES The Environmental History of Mountain Regions
- R.Dodgshon Interdisciplinary Conversations: the Collective Model
- A.Davies New Science for Sustainability in an Ancient Land
- L.Robin PART III: MAKING SPACE: ENVIRONMENTS AND THEIR CONTEXTS Fifty-four, Forty, or Fight? Writing within and across Boundaries in North American Environmental History
- M.Evenden & G.Wynn Modernity and the Politics of Waste in Britain
- T.Cooper Why Intensity? Reflections on Long-Term Changes to Chinese Farming and the Institutional Steering of Modifications to the Environment
- M.Elvin 'The pernicious calamities that occasion...hunger': Climate Variability and Social Vulnerability in Colonial Mexico
- G.Endfield PART IV: 'THINGS HUMAN' Destiny and Decision: Taking the Lifeworld Seriously in Environmental History
- K.Hastrup Afterword
- P.Burke Index
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