Nature's End [electronic resource] : History and the Environment /
Sörlin, S.editor.
Warde, P.editor.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Making the environment historical : an introduction / Sverker Sörlin and Paul Warde -- Imperialism, intellectual networks, and environmental change : unearthing the origins and evolution of global environmental history / Richard Grove and Vinita Damodaran -- Separation, proprietorship and community in the history of conservation / William M. Adams -- The environmental history of pre-industrial agriculture in Europe / Paul Warde -- The global warming that did not happen : historicizing glaciology and climate change / Sverker Sörlin -- Genealogies of the ecological moment : planning, complexity and the emergence of 'the environment' as politics in West Germany, 1949-1982 / Holger Nehring -- The environmental history of mountain regions / Robert A. Dodgshon --  Interdisciplinary conversations : the collective model / A. Hamilton ... [et al.] -- New science for sustainability in an ancient land / Libby Robin -- 54, 40 or fight : writing within and across borders in North American environmental history / Matthew Evenden and Graeme Wynn -- Modernity and the politics of waste in Britain / Tim Cooper -- 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 / Mark Elvin -- Reconsidering climate and causality : case studies from colonial Mexico / Georgina Endfield -- Destinies and decisions : taking the life-world seriously in environmental history / Kirsten Hastrup.
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.
History.
Social history.
Civilization-History.
Environmental sciences.
Environment.
Historiography.
History of Science.
Social History.
Cultural History.
Environmental Science and Engineering.
Environment, general.
Historiography and Method.