Natures past
By: Paolo Squatriti, editor.
Contributors: Squatriti, Paolo, 1963-
Series: The comparative studies in society and history book series
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780472099603; 9780472069606
Subjects: Human ecology -- History; Environmental degradation -- History; Conservation of natural resources -- History; Environmental policy -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Natures past and present environmental histories / Paolo Squatriti; title: Distribution fights, coordination games, and lobster management / James Acheson; title: Fruit trees and family trees in an anthropogenic forest : ethics of access, property zones, and environmental change on Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso; title: Histories of colonialism and forestry in India / K. Sivaramakrishnan; title: Revolutionary mosquitoes of the Atlantic world : malaria and independence in the United States of America / J.R. McNeill; title: Sustainable development on China's frontier / Peter C. Perdue; title: Naming the stranger : maize's journey to Africa / James C. McCann; title: Two landscapes, two stories : Anglo-Saxon England and the United States / Nicholas Howe; title: In search of natural identity : alpine landscape and the reconstruction of the Swiss nation / Oliver Zimmer; title: Lawn-o-rama : the commodification of landscape in postwar America / Ted Steinberg; title: Footprint metaphor and metabolic realities : environmental impacts of medieval European cities / Richard C. Hoffmann.