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The Measure of Reality
Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600
Häftad, 1997
367 kr
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Western Europeans were among the first, if not the first, to invent mechanical clocks, geometrically precise maps, double-entry bookkeeping, precise algebraic and musical notations, and perspective painting. By the sixteenth century more people were thinking quantitatively in western Europe than in …
Green Imperialism
Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860
Av Richard H. Grove, Donald Worster m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
603 kr
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This is the first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, concentrating especially on its hitherto unexplained colonial and global aspects. It highlights the significance of Utopian, physiocratic and medical thinking in the history of environmental ideas. The book shows …
Ecological Imperialism
The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
Häftad, 2015
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
311 kr
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People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of firearms against spears. But as Alfred W. Crosby …
Children of the Sun
A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy
Häftad, 2007
293 kr
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All life on earth is dependent on energy from the sun, but one species has evolved to be especially efficient in tapping that supply. This is the story of the human species and its dedicated effort to sustain and elevate itself by making the earth’s stores of energy its own. A story of slow …
America's Forgotten Pandemic
The Influenza of 1918
E-bok, 2003
437 kr
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Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives - more people than perished in the fighting of the First World War. It proved fatal to at least a half-million Americans. Yet, the Spanish flu pandemic is largely forgotten today. In this vivid …
Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt
Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China
Av Robert Marks, Donald Worster m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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Challenging the conventional wisdom conveyed by Western environmental historians about China, this book examines the correlations between economic and environmental changes in the southern Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi from 1400 to 1850, but also provides substantial background from …
Throwing Fire
Projectile Technology through History
Häftad, 2010
435 kr
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Historian Alfred W. Crosby looks at hard, accurate throwing and the manipulation of fire as unique human capabilities. Humans began throwing rocks in prehistory and then progressed to javelins, atlatls, bows and arrows. We learned to make fire by friction and used it to cook, drive game, burn out …
The Fisherman's Problem
Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980
Av Arthur F. McEvoy, Donald Worster m. fl.
Inbunden, 1986
1928 kr
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The living resources of California's rivers and coastal waters are among the most varied and productive in the world. They also offer a laboratory example of the mismanagement and waste that have attended the settlement and development of the North American continent. The Fisherman's Problem is a …
Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber
A Study in Environmental History
Av Warren Dean, Donald Worster m. fl.
Inbunden, 1987
1677 kr
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Brazil once enjoyed a near monopoly in rubber when the commodity was gathered in the wild. By 1913, however, cultivated rubber in South-east Asia swept the Brazilian gathered product from the market. In this innovative study, Warren Dean demonstrates that environmental factors have played a key …
The Fisherman's Problem
Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980
Av Arthur F. McEvoy, Donald Worster m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
569 kr
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The living resources of California's rivers and coastal waters are among the most varied and productive in the world. They also offer a laboratory example of the mismanagement and waste that have attended the settlement and development of the North American continent. The Fisherman's Problem is a …
Beauty, Health, and Permanence
Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955-1985
Av Samuel P. Hays, Donald Worster m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
719 kr
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Bringing together a wide range of environmental issues that have been debated since the mid-1950s, this book views these issues as a result of changes in values in American society since World War II. The author explores such substantive issues as pollution, natural lands, chemical carcinogens, and …
Americans and their Forests
A Historical Geography
Av Michael Williams, Donald Worster m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
846 kr
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When Europeans first reached the land that would become the United States they were staggered by the breadth and density of the forest they found. The existence of that forest, and the effort either to use or subdue it, have been constant themes in American history, literature, economics, and …
Nature's Economy
A History of Ecological Ideas
Av Donald Worster, Donald Worster m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
536 kr
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Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past, first published in 1994. It traces the origins of the concept, discusses the thinkers who have shaped it, and shows how it in turn has shaped the modern perception of our place in nature. Our view of the living world is a product …
The Caribbean Slave
A Biological History
Av Kenneth F. Kiple, Donald Worster m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
927 kr
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This study focuses on the black biological experience in slavery, in the Caribbean. It begins with a consideration of the rapidly changing disease environment after the arrival of the Spaniards; it also looks at the slave ancestors in their West African homeland and examines the ways in which the …
Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber
A Study in Environmental History
Av Warren Dean, Donald Worster m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
607 kr
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Brazil once enjoyed a near monopoly in rubber when the commodity was gathered in the wild. By 1913, however, cultivated rubber in South-east Asia swept the Brazilian gathered product from the market. In this innovative study, Warren Dean demonstrates that environmental factors have played a key …
America's Forgotten Pandemic
The Influenza of 1918
Häftad, 2003
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
403 kr
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Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives - more people than perished in the fighting of the First World War. It proved fatal to at least a half-million Americans. Yet, the Spanish flu pandemic is largely forgotten today. In this vivid …
The Measure of Reality
Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600
Inbunden, 1996
1559 kr
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Western Europeans were among the first, if not the first, to invent mechanical clocks, geometrically precise maps, double-entry bookkeeping, precise algebraic and musical notations, and perspective painting. By the sixteenth century more people were thinking quantitatively in western Europe than in …
A Plague of Sheep
Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico
Av Elinor G. K. Melville, Donald Worster m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
390 kr
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This is a book about the biological conquest of the New World. Taking as a case study the sixteenth-century history of a region of highland central Mexico, it shows how the environmental and social changes brought about by the introduction of Old World species aided European expansion. The book …
Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt
Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China
Av Robert Marks, Donald Worster m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
2029 kr
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Challenging the conventional wisdom conveyed by Western environmental historians about China, this book examines the correlations between economic and environmental changes in the southern Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi from 1400 to 1850, but also provides substantial background from …
Nature and the English Diaspora
Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Av Thomas Dunlap, Donald Worster m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
1928 kr
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First published in 1999, this book is a comparative history of the development of ideas about nature, particularly of the importance of native nature as a part of the culture in the Anglo settler countries of the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It examines the development of …
Nature and the English Diaspora
Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Av Thomas Dunlap, Donald Worster m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
720 kr
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First published in 1999, this book is a comparative history of the development of ideas about nature, particularly of the importance of native nature as a part of the culture in the Anglo settler countries of the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It examines the development of …
Mao's War against Nature
Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China
Av Judith Shapiro, Donald Worster m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1677 kr
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Judith Shapiro, in clear and compelling prose, relates the great, untold story of the devastating impact of Chinese politics on China's environment during the Mao years. Maoist China provides an example of extreme human interference in the natural world in an era in which human relationships were …
Mao's War against Nature
Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China
Av Judith Shapiro, Donald Worster m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
485 kr
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Judith Shapiro, in clear and compelling prose, relates the great, untold story of the devastating impact of Chinese politics on China's environment during the Mao years. Maoist China provides an example of extreme human interference in the natural world in an era in which human relationships were …
War and Nature
Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring
Av Edmund Russell, Donald Worster m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1677 kr
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War and Nature combines discussion of technology, nature, and warfare to explain the impact of war on nature and vice versa. While cultural and scholarly traditions have led us to think of war and control of nature as separate, this 2001 book uses the history of chemical warfare and pest control as …
Throwing Fire
Projectile Technology through History
Inbunden, 2002
1391 kr
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Historian Alfred W. Crosby looks at hard, accurate throwing and the manipulation of fire as unique human capabilities. Humans began throwing rocks in prehistory and then progressed to javelins, atlatls, bows and arrows. We learned to make fire by friction and used it to cook, drive game, burn out …
War and Nature
Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring
Av Edmund Russell, Donald Worster m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
452 kr
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War and Nature combines discussion of technology, nature, and warfare to explain the impact of war on nature and vice versa. While cultural and scholarly traditions have led us to think of war and control of nature as separate, this 2001 book uses the history of chemical warfare and pest control as …
The Bulldozer in the Countryside
Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism
Av Adam Rome, Donald Worster m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1677 kr
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The concern today about suburban sprawl is not new. In the decades after World War II, the spread of tract-house construction changed the nature of millions of acres of land, and a variety of Americans began to protest against the environmental costs of suburban development. By the mid-1960s, …
America's Forgotten Pandemic
The Influenza of 1918
Inbunden, 2003
1559 kr
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Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives - more people than perished in the fighting of the First World War. It proved fatal to at least a half-million Americans. Yet, the Spanish flu pandemic is largely forgotten today. In this vivid …
Ecological Imperialism
The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
Inbunden, 2004
1928 kr
Lägg i varukorg
People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of firearms against spears. But, as Alfred Crosby …
