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Empire and Environmental Anxiety
Health, Science, Art and Conservation in South Asia and Australasia, 1800-1920
Av J. Beattie
Inbunden, 2011
1127 kr
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A new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, and the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and interaction with unknown landscapes. Tying together South Asia and Australasia, this book demonstrates how environmental anxieties led to increasing state …
Burning Table Mountain
An Environmental History of Fire on the Cape Peninsula
Av S. Pooley
Inbunden, 2014
568 kr
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Cape Town's iconic Table Mountain and the surrounding peninsula has been a crucible for attempts to integrate the social and ecological dimensions of wild fire. This environmental history of humans and wildfire outlines these interactions from the practices of Khoikhoi herders to the conflagrations …
East India Company and the Natural World
Av V. Damodaran, A. Winterbottom m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1802 kr
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This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The contributors – drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines - illuminate the relationship between colonial capital and the …
El Niño in World History
Av Richard Grove, George Adamson
Inbunden, 2018
1353 kr
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This book examines the role of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in society. Throughout human history, large or recurrent El Niños could cause significant disruption to societies and in some cases even contribute to political change. Yet it is only now that we are coming to appreciate the …
Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia
Perspectives from Environmental History
Av Ts'ui-jung Liu, James Beattie
Inbunden, 2016
568 kr
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Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia critically examines modernization's long-term environmental history. It suggests new frameworks for understanding as inter-related processes environmental, social, and economic change across China and Japan.
Dust Bowl
Depression America to World War Two Australia
Inbunden, 2016
568 kr
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This book takes the Dust Bowl story beyond Depression America to describe the ‘dust bowl’ concept as a transnational phenomenon, where during World War Two, US and Australian national mythologies converged. Dust Bowl begins with Depression America, the New Deal and the US Dust Bowl where massive …
Empire and Environmental Anxiety
Health, Science, Art and Conservation in South Asia and Australasia, 1800-1920
Av J. Beattie
Häftad, 2011
1241 kr
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A new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, and the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and interaction with unknown landscapes. Tying together South Asia and Australasia, this book demonstrates how environmental anxieties led to increasing state …
Burning Table Mountain
An Environmental History of Fire on the Cape Peninsula
Av S. Pooley
Häftad, 2014
568 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Cape Town's iconic Table Mountain and the surrounding peninsula has been a crucible for attempts to integrate the social and ecological dimensions of wild fire. This environmental history of humans and wildfire outlines these interactions from the practices of Khoikhoi herders to the conflagrations …
East India Company and the Natural World
Av V. Damodaran, A. Winterbottom m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
1802 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The contributors – drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines - illuminate the relationship between colonial capital and the …
El Niño in World History
Av Richard Grove, George Adamson
Häftad, 2019
1353 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book examines the role of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in society. Throughout human history, large or recurrent El Niños could cause significant disruption to societies and in some cases even contribute to political change. Yet it is only now that we are coming to appreciate the …
Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia
Perspectives from Environmental History
Av Ts'ui-jung Liu, James Beattie
Häftad, 2018
568 kr
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Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia critically examines modernization's long-term environmental history. It suggests new frameworks for understanding as inter-related processes environmental, social, and economic change across China and Japan.
Moral Ecologies
Histories of Conservation, Dispossession and Resistance
Av Carl J. Griffin, Roy Jones m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
986 kr
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This book offers the first systematic study of how elite conservation schemes and policies define once customary and vernacular forms of managing common resources as banditry—and how the ‘bandits’ fight back. Drawing inspiration from Karl Jacoby’s seminal Crimes against Nature, this book takes …
Resilient City in World War II
Urban Environmental Histories
Av Simo Laakkonen, J. R. McNeill m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1351 kr
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The fate of towns and cities stands at the center of the environmental history of World War II. Broad swaths of cityscapes were destroyed by the bombing of targets such as transport hubs, electrical grids, and industrial districts, and across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, urban environments were …
Resilient City in World War II
Urban Environmental Histories
Av Simo Laakkonen, J. R. McNeill m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
1351 kr
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The fate of towns and cities stands at the center of the environmental history of World War II. Broad swaths of cityscapes were destroyed by the bombing of targets such as transport hubs, electrical grids, and industrial districts, and across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, urban environments were …
Invasive Predators in New Zealand
Disaster on Four Small Paws
Inbunden, 2019
1127 kr
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The story of invasive species in New Zealand is unlike any other in the world. By the mid-thirteenth century, the main islands of the country were the last large landmasses on Earth to remain uninhabited by humans, or any other land mammals. New Zealand’s endemic fauna evolved in isolation until …
Invasive Predators in New Zealand
Disaster on Four Small Paws
Häftad, 2021
1127 kr
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The story of invasive species in New Zealand is unlike any other in the world. By the mid-thirteenth century, the main islands of the country were the last large landmasses on Earth to remain uninhabited by humans, or any other land mammals. New Zealand’s endemic fauna evolved in isolation until …
Irrigation, Salinity, and Rural Communities in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin, 1945–2020
Inbunden, 2023
1351 kr
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This book explores the issue of salinization in the context of contemporary conflicts about irrigation, water, and the environment in Australia, considering the Murray-Darling Basin in particular. It provides an environmental and social history charting the transformation of rural communities in …
Irrigation, Salinity, and Rural Communities in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin, 1945–2020
Häftad, 2024
1351 kr
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This book explores the issue of salinization in the context of contemporary conflicts about irrigation, water, and the environment in Australia, considering the Murray-Darling Basin in particular. It provides an environmental and social history charting the transformation of rural communities in …
Arctic Environmental Modernities
From the Age of Polar Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene
Av Lill-Ann Körber, Scott MacKenzie m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1351 kr
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This book offers a diverse and groundbreaking account of the intersections between modernities and environments in the circumpolar global North, foregrounding the Arctic as a critical space of modernity, where the past, present, and future of the planet’s environmental and political systems are …
Environmental History of Southern Malawi
Land and People of the Shire Highlands
Av Brian Morris
Inbunden, 2016
1127 kr
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This book is a pioneering and comprehensive study of the environmental history of Southern Malawi. With over fifty years of experience, anthropologist and social ecologist Brian Morris draws on a wide range of data – literary, ethnographic and archival – in this interdisciplinary volume. …
Telling Environmental Histories
Intersections of Memory, Narrative and Environment
Av Katie Holmes, Heather Goodall
Inbunden, 2018
1239 kr
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This collection explores the intersections of oral history and environmental history. Oral history offers environmental historians the opportunity to understand the ways people’s perceptions, experiences and beliefs about environments change over time. In turn, the insights of environmental history …
Terania Creek and the Forging of Modern Environmental Activism
Inbunden, 2018
551 kr
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This book tells the story of Terania Creek – the world’s first direct action blockade in defence of a forest, occurring in Australia in 1979. Contrary to claims that the Australian counterculture was a mere imitation of overseas models, the Australian movement, coalescing with a home-grown …
Arctic Environmental Modernities
From the Age of Polar Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene
Av Lill-Ann Körber, Scott MacKenzie m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
321 kr
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This book offers a diverse and groundbreaking account of the intersections between modernities and environments in the circumpolar global North, foregrounding the Arctic as a critical space of modernity, where the past, present, and future of the planet’s environmental and political systems are …
Environmental History of Southern Malawi
Land and People of the Shire Highlands
Av Brian Morris
Häftad, 2018
847 kr
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This book is a pioneering and comprehensive study of the environmental history of Southern Malawi. With over fifty years of experience, anthropologist and social ecologist Brian Morris draws on a wide range of data – literary, ethnographic and archival – in this interdisciplinary volume. …
Telling Environmental Histories
Intersections of Memory, Narrative and Environment
Av Katie Holmes, Heather Goodall
Häftad, 2019
1239 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This collection explores the intersections of oral history and environmental history. Oral history offers environmental historians the opportunity to understand the ways people’s perceptions, experiences and beliefs about environments change over time. In turn, the insights of environmental history …
