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Nature's end : history and the environment / edited by Sverker Sörlin and Paul Warde.
Language: English Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009Description: xii, 368 s. illISBN:- 9780230203471
- 9780230203464
- 0230203469
- Miljöhistoria
- Human ecology -- History
- nature conservation
- climatic change
- history
- Miljöfrågor -- historia
- Klimatförändringar -- historia
- Miljöforskning -- historia
- Miljöskydd -- historia
- Miljövård -- historia
- Environmental history
- Environmental protection -- History
- Environmental policy -- History
- Environmental sciences -- History
- 304.209 22
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Dawson
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. vii)
- Notes on Contributors (p. ix)
- Making the Environment Historical - An Introduction (p. 1)
- Part 1 The Rise of the Environmental
- 1 Imperialism, Intellectual Networks, and Environmental Change; Unearthing the Origins and Evolution of Global Environmental History (p. 23)
- 2 Separation, Proprietorship and Community in the History of Conservation (p. 50)
- 3 The Environmental History of Pre-industrial Agriculture in Europe (p. 70)
- 4 The Global Warming That Did Not Happen: Historicizing Glaciology and Climate Change (p. 93)
- 5 Genealogies of the Ecological Moment: Planning, Complexity and the Emergence of 'the Environment' as Politics in West Germany, 1949-1982 (p. 115)
- Part II History and the Environmental Sciences
- 6 The Environmental History of Mountain Regions (p. 141)
- 7 Interdisciplinary Conversations: The Collective Model (p. 162)
- 8 New Science for Sustainability in an Ancient Land (p. 188)
- Part III Making Space: Environments and Their Contexts
- 9 54, 40 or Fight: Writing Within and Across Borders in North American Environmental History
- 10 Modernity and the Politics of Waste in Britain (p. 247)
- 11 Why Intensify? The Outline of a Theory of the Institutional Causes Driving Long-Term Changes in Chinese Farming and the Consequent Modifications to the Environment (p. 173)
- 12 Reconsidering Climate and Causality: Case Studies from Colonial Mexico (p. 304)
- Part IV 'Things Human'
- 13 Destinies and Decisions: Taking the Life-World Seriously in Environmental History (p. 331)
- Afterword (p. 349)
- Index (p. 358)