Globalization, environmental change, and social history
By: edited by Peter Boomgaard and Marjolein 't Hart
Series: International review of social history -- vol. 55 (2010), special issue 18; International review of social history -- 18.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781107401518
Subjects: Nature; Social aspects; Effect of human beings on; Effect of environment on; Globalization; Global environmental change; Social history; Human beings
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Globalization, environmental change, and social history : an introduction / Peter Boomgaard and Marjolein 't Hart; title: The El Dorado of forestry : the eucalyptus in India, South Africa, and Thailand, 1850-2000 / Brett M. Bennett; title: The Mid-Atlantic islands : a theatre of early modern ecocide? / Stefan Halikowski Smith; title: Environmental change and globalization in seventeenth-century France : Dutch traders and the draining of French wetlands (Arles, Petit Poitou) / Raphael Morera; title: The colonial famine plot : slavery, free trade, and empire in the French Atlantic, 1763-1791 / Joseph Horan; title: Environmental changes, the emergence of a fuel market, and the working conditions of salt makers in Bengal, c.1780-1845 / Sayako Kanda; title: Industrial life in a limiting landscape : an environmental interpretation of Stalinist Social conditions in the far north / Andy Bruno; title: "Pumpkins just got in there": gender and generational conflict and "improved" agriculture in colonial Zimbabwe / Guy Thompson; title: Hydro-businesses : national and global demands influencing meanings and uses of the São Francisco River Basin environment of Brazil / Lucigleide Nery Nascimento and Mimi Larsen Becker.