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.

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)