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. INDICE: Notes on Contributors - Preface - Introduction; S.Sörlin ; P.Warde- PART I: THE RISE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL - Imperialism and Environmental Change: Unearthing the Origins and Evolution of Global Environmental History; R.Grove ; V.Damodaran - Habitat, Possession and Community: Reflections on the History of Conservation Ideas; B.Adams - The Field of Action: Agriculture and the Defining of the Environment in Pre-Industrial Europe; P.Warde - The Global Warming That Did Not Happen: Historicizing Glaciology and Climate Change; S.Sörlin- Genealogies of the Ecological Moment: Planning, Complexity and the Emergence of 'the Environment' as Politics in West Germany, 1949-1982; H.Nehring - PART II: HISTORY AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES - The Environmental History of Mountain Regions; R.Dodgshon - Interdisciplinary Conversations: the Collective Model; A.Davies - New Science for Sustainability in an Ancient Land; L.Robin - PART III: MAKING SPACE: ENVIRONMENTS AND THEIR CONTEXTS - Fifty-four, Forty, or Fight? Writing within and across Boundaries in North American Environmental History; M.Evenden ; G.Wynn - Modernity and the Politics of Waste in Britain; T.Cooper - Why Intensity? Reflections on Long-Term Changes to Chinese Farming and the Institutional Steering of Modifications to the Environment; M.Elvin - 'The pernicious calamities that occasion...hunger': Climate Variability and Social Vulnerability in Colonial Mexico; G.Endfield - PART IV: 'THINGS HUMAN' - Destiny and Decision: Taking the Lifeworld Seriously in Environmental History;K.Hastrup - Afterword; P.Burke - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-20346-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 384
- Fecha Publicación: 23/07/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés