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  • af Samuel (Vanderbilt University Dolbee
    321,95 - 1.036,95 kr.

  • - Perspectives on Modern Environmental History
     
    1.036,95 kr.

    A unifying discussion of our increasingly integrated global economy, higher population levels and greater resource demands.

  • - A Biological History
    af Kenneth F. Kiple
    620,95 kr.

    This study focuses on the black biological experience in slavery, in the Caribbean. The study closes with a look at the continuing demographic difficulties of the black West Indian from the abolition of slavery.

  • - A Historical Geography
    af Michael Williams
    710,95 kr.

    Dr Williams begins by exploring the role of the forest in American culture: the symbols, themes, and concepts - for example, pioneer woodsman, lumberjack, wilderness - generated by contact with the vast land of trees. He considers the Indian use of the forest, describing the ways in which native tribes altered it, primarily through fire, to promote a subsistence economy.

  • af J. R. McNeill
    404,95 kr.

    An environmental history of the mountain areas of Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Morocco.

  • - Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800
    af Timothy Silver
    383,95 kr.

    Silver traces the effects of English settlement on South Atlantic ecology, showing how three cultures interacted with their changing environment.

  • - An Arctic Environmental History
    af Andy (Northern Illinois University) Bruno
    347,95 - 987,95 kr.

    During the twentieth century, the Soviet Union turned the Kola Peninsula into one of the most populated, industrialized, militarized, and polluted parts of the Arctic. This in-depth exploration of five industries in the region examines cultural perceptions of nature, plans for development, lived experiences, and modifications to the physical world.

  • - A Coevolutionary History of England, 1200-1900
    af Edmund (Hall Distinguished Professor of US History & Boston University) Russell
    295,95 - 963,95 kr.

    Edmund Russell's much-anticipated new book examines interactions between greyhounds and their owners in England from 1200 to 1900 to make a compelling case that history is an evolutionary process. Five forces - politics, economics, technology, ecology, and culture - consistently shaped greyhounds and their owners, with a radical transition in 1831.

  • - Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560-1720
    af Washington DC) Degroot & Dagomar (Georgetown University
    306,95 - 1.232,95 kr.

    The first detailed analysis of how climate change influenced the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic, from the middle of the sixteenth century to the early decades of the eighteenth century. For environmental historians, scholars of Dutch history, and anyone interested in climate change.

  • - How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World
    af Peder (New York University) Anker
    975,95 kr.

    What is the source of Norway's culture of environmental harmony in our troubled world? Exploring the role of Norwegian scholar-activists of the late twentieth century, Anker shows how their portrayal of Norway as a pristine natural environment of the periphery led to it being fashioned as an idealised ecological microcosm. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

  • - Henan Province, the Yellow River, and Beyond, 1938-1950
    af Micah S. Muscolino
    330,95 - 1.097,95 kr.

    This book explores the interplay between war and environment in Henan Province, a hotly contested frontline territory that endured massive environmental destruction and human disruption during the conflict between China and Japan during World War II. In a desperate attempt to block Japan's military advance, Chinese Nationalist armies under Chiang Kai-shek broke the Yellow River's dikes in Henan in June 1938, resulting in devastating floods that persisted until after the war's end. Greater catastrophe struck Henan in 1942-3, when famine took some two million lives and displaced millions more. Focusing on these war-induced disasters and their aftermath, this book conceptualizes the ecology of war in terms of energy flows through and between militaries, societies, and environments. Ultimately, Micah Muscolino argues that efforts to procure and exploit nature's energy in various forms shaped the choices of generals, the fates of communities, and the trajectory of environmental change in North China.

  • - Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860
    af Canberra) Grove & Richard H. (Australian National University
    414,95 - 1.012,95 kr.

    The first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, especially its colonial and global aspects, Green Imperialism highlights the significance of Utopian, physiocratic and medical thinking. For the first time, the limitability of local and global resources could be recognised.

  • - Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring
    af University of Virginia) Russell & Edmund (Hall Distinguished Professor of US History
    283,95 - 1.178,95 kr.

    Combining discussion of technology, nature, and warfare, this 2001 book explains the impact of war on nature and vice versa. Using the history of chemical warfare and pest control as a case study, this book helps us understand the development of total war and the rise of the modern environmental movement.

  • - Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China
    af Washington DC) Shapiro & Judith (American University
    317,95 - 1.097,95 kr.

    Under Mao, the traditional Chinese ideal of 'harmony between heaven and humans' was abrogated in favor of Mao's insistence that 'people will conquer nature'. Mao and the Chinese Communist Party's 'war' to bend the physical world to human will often had disastrous consequences both for human beings and the natural environment.

  • - A Study in Environmental History
    af Warren (New York University) Dean
    473,95 - 1.097,95 kr.

    Brazil once enjoyed a near monopoly in rubber when the commodity was gathered in the wild. In this innovative study, Warren Dean demonstrates that environmental factors have played a key role in the many failed attempts to produce a significant rubber crop again in Brazil.

  • - Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico
    af Elinor G.K. Melville
    260,95 - 1.097,95 kr.

    Taking as a case study the sixteenth-century history of a region of highland central Mexico, it shows how the environmental and social changes brought about by the introduction of Old World species aided European expansion.

  • - A History of Ecological Ideas
    af Donald (University of Kansas) Worster
    352,95 kr.

    Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past, first published in 1994. It traces the origins of the concept, discusses the thinkers who have shaped it, and shows how it in turn has shaped the modern perception of our place in nature.

  • - A History of Conservation in Nazi Germany
    af Frank Uekoetter
    297,95 - 870,95 kr.

    This study provides the first comprehensive discussion of conservation in Nazi Germany. Looking at Germany in an international context, it analyses the roots of conservation in the late nineteenth century, the gradual adaptation of racist and nationalist thinking among conservationists in the 1920s and their indifference to the Weimar Republic. It describes how the German conservation movement came to cooperate with the Nazi regime and discusses the ideological and institutional lines between the conservation movement and the Nazis. Uekoetter further examines how the conservation movement struggled to do away with a troublesome past after World War II, making the environmentalists one of the last groups in German society to face up to its Nazi burden. It is a story of ideological convergence, of tactical alliances, of careerism, of implication in crimes against humanity, and of deceit and denial after 1945. It is also a story that offers valuable lessons for today's environmental movement.

  • - A South African History
    af Rhode Island) Jacobs & Nancy J. (Brown University
    424,95 - 1.093,95 kr.

    Explores the environmental dynamic in the history of rural black South Africans. It historicizes food production and other environmental relations. But class, gender and, later, race determined the food production individuals practised. After the mid-twentieth century, the interventionist state enforced coercive conservation and segregation, undermining most food production by blacks.

  • - Environment and Society in Chinese History
    af Mark (Australian National University Elvin
    1.648,95 kr.

    The first comprehensive survey of Chinese environmental history. Pioneering essays explore new methodologies of historical environmental research, comparisons of China with the West and Japan, and the impact of the early modern ecological transformation on the spread of disease.

  • - Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
    af M University) Dunlap & Thomas (Texas A
    461,95 - 1.281,95 kr.

    First published in 1999, this is a comparative history of the development of ideas about nature. The book focuses on the importance of native nature in the Anglo settler countries of the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, from the development of natural history through the rise of environmentalism.

  • - An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa
    af Robert (Yale University Harms
    407,95 kr.

    Robert Harms explores nature and culture in the story of the Nunu, who live in and around the swampy floodplains of the Zaire River. Increasing population impinged upon the limits of available resources in the late eighteenth century, eventually resulting in civil war in the 1960s.

  • - Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism
    af Buffalo) Rome & Adam (State University of New York
    283,95 - 1.176,95 kr.

    This was the first scholarly history of efforts to reduce the environmental costs of suburban development in the United States. The book offers an account of two of the most important historical events since 1945 - the mass migration to the suburbs and the rise of the environmental movement.

  • - The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
    af Alfred W. Crosby
    179,95 - 1.281,95 kr.

    People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of firearms against spears. But as Alfred W. Crosby maintains in this highly original and fascinating book, the Europeans' displacement and replacement of the native peoples in the temperate zones was more a matter of biology than of military conquest. European organisms had certain decisive advantages over their New World and Australian counterparts. The spread of European disease, flora and fauna went hand in hand with the growth of populations. Consequently, these imperialists became proprietors of the most important agricultural lands in the world. In the second edition, Crosby revisits his now classic work and again evaluates the global historical importance of European ecological expansion.

  • - Perspectives on Modern Environmental History
     
    394,95 kr.

    A unifying discussion of our increasingly integrated global economy, higher population levels and greater resource demands.

  • - Industrialization and the Waters of New England
    af Theodore Steinberg
    390,95 kr.

    Nature Incorporated explores the Industrial Revolution in New England from an environmental perspective. Focusing on the legendary Waltham-Lowell style mills, this book examines how these textile factories brought water under their exclusive control.

  • - Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980
    af Illinois) McEvoy & Arthur F. (Northwestern University
    398,95 - 1.281,95 kr.

    The book represents a significant new departure in the study of ecology and change in human society.

  • - Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China
    af Robert Marks
    399,95 - 1.342,95 kr.

    Challenging the conventional wisdom conveyed by Western environmental historians about China, this book examines the correlations between economic and environmental changes in the southern Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi from 1400 to 1850, but also provides substantial background from 2CE on. Robert Marks discusses the impact of population growth on land-use patterns, the agro-ecology of the region, and deforestation; the commercialization of agriculture and its implications for ecological change; the impact of climatic change on agriculture; and the ways in which the human population responded to environmental challenges. This book is a significant contribution to both Chinese and environmental history. It is groundbreaking in its methods and in its findings.

  • - Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938
    af Myrna I. Santiago
    473,95 - 1.281,95 kr.

    An exploration of the social and environmental consequences of oil extraction in the tropical rainforest. Using northern Veracruz as a case study, the author argues that oil production generated major historical and environmental transformations in land tenure systems and uses, and social organisation.

  • - An Environmental History of the Fraser River
    af Vancouver) Evenden & Matthew D. (University of British Columbia
    400,95 - 706,95 kr.

    Amid contemporary debates over large dam development and declines in fisheries, this book offers a case study of a river basin (Fraser River, in British Columbia) where development decisions did not ultimately dam the river, but rather conserved its salmon.

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