Historians and nature
Subtitle: comparative approaches to environmental history
By: edited by Ursula Lehmkuhl and Hermann Wellenreuther
Contributors: Lehmkuhl, Ursula; Wellenreuther, Hermann
Edition: English ed
Series: Germany and the United States of America
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781845205201
Subjects: Human ecology -- History -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-342) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Ursula Lehmkuhl; title: Money versus public affairs : reflections on a better balance between public and private goods / Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker; title: Historicizing nature : time and space in German and American environmental history / Ursula Lehmkuhl; title: Ecologics/ecosophy : the event of the city / Hanjo Berressem; title: Comments / Mark Häberlein, Christof Mauch; title: Native Americans, history, and the environment / Christian F. Feest; title: Nature in conflict : disputes surrounding the dike in seventeenth-century northern Frisia as a window into an early modern coastal society / Marie Luisa Allemeyer; title: Comment / Klaus-Georg Wey; title: Mercurial nature : the California gold country and the coalfields of the Ruhr Basin, 1850-1900 / Andrew C. Isenberg; title: Perceptions of space and nature in nineteenth-century America / Claudia Schnurmann; title: Comments / Marc Cioc, Nils Freytag; title: The natural space of modernity : a transatlantic perspective on (urban) environmental history / Dorothee Brantz; title: City and nature and nature in the city / Bernd Herrmann; title: Comments / Andrew Hurley, James T. Lemon; title: The potential and the reality of safeguarding the environment by American diplomacy / Kurk Dorsey; title: Greenpeace and the development of international environmental activism in the 1970s / Frank Zelko; title: Comment / Kristine Kern