Nature's end : history and the environment

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Nature's end : history and the environment

edited by Sverker Sörlin and Paul Warde

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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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