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Green Archipelago
Forestry in Preindustrial Japan
Häftad, 1998
367 kr
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This inaugural volume in the Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History is the paperback edition of Conrad Totman's widely acclaimed study of Japan's environmental policies over the centuries.Professor Totman raises the critical question of how Japan's steeply mountainous woodland has …
Encountering the Past in Nature
Essays in Environmental History
Av Timo Myllyntaus, Timo Myllyntaus m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
317 kr
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A deeper understanding of contemporary environmental problems requires us to know where we come from, and the study of environmental history will help us in that quest. Environmental history, in short, may be described as an attempt to study the interaction between humans and nature in the past. …
Tropical Pioneers
Human Agency and Ecological Change in the Highlands of Sri Lanka, 1800–1900
Inbunden, 2002
929 kr
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In 1800, the highlands of Sri Lanka had some of the most biologically diverse primary tropical rainforest ecosystems in the world. By 1900, only a few craggy corners and mountain caps had been spared the fire stick. Highland villagers, through the extension of slash-and-burn agriculture, and …
Tropical Pioneers
Human Agency and Ecological Change in the Highlands of Sri Lanka, 1800–1900
Häftad, 2002
325 kr
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In 1800, the highlands of Sri Lanka had some of the most biologically diverse primary tropical rainforest ecosystems in the world. By 1900, only a few craggy corners and mountain caps had been spared the fire stick. Highland villagers, through the extension of slash-and-burn agriculture, and …
Highland Sanctuary
Environmental History in Tanzania's Usambara Mountains
Inbunden, 2004
902 kr
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For more than a century, the world has recognized the extraordinary biological diversity of the forests of Tanzania's Usambara Mountains. As international attention has focused on forest conservation, farmers, foresters, biologists, and the Tanzanian state have realized that only complex …
Highland Sanctuary
Environmental History in Tanzania's Usambara Mountains
Häftad, 2004
361 kr
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For more than a century, the world has recognized the extraordinary biological diversity of the forests of Tanzania's Usambara Mountains. As international attention has focused on forest conservation, farmers, foresters, biologists, and the Tanzanian state have realized that only complex …
Imperial Gullies
Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho
Inbunden, 2005
902 kr
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Once the grain basket for South Africa, much of Lesotho has become a scarred and degraded landscape. The nation's spectacular erosion and gullying have concerned environmentalists and conservationists for more than half a century. In Imperial Gullies: Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho, Kate …
Imperial Gullies
Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho
Häftad, 2005
400 kr
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Once the grain basket for South Africa, much of Lesotho has become a scarred and degraded landscape. The nation's spectacular erosion and gullying have concerned environmentalists and conservationists for more than half a century. In Imperial Gullies: Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho, Kate …
How Green Were the Nazis?
Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich
Av Franz-Josef Brüggemeier, Mark Cioc m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
378 kr
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The Nazis created nature preserves, championed sustainable forestry, curbed air pollution, and designed the autobahn highway network as a way of bringing Germans closer to nature. How Green Were the Nazis?: Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich is the first book to examine the Third …
Inventing Pollution
Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800
Inbunden, 2006
808 kr
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Britain's supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal. This coal not only powered steam engines in factories, ships, and railway locomotives but also warmed homes and cooked food. As coal consumption skyrocketed, the air in Britain's cities and towns …
Inventing Pollution
Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800
Häftad, 2006
487 kr
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Britain's supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal. This coal not only powered steam engines in factories, ships, and railway locomotives but also warmed homes and cooked food. As coal consumption skyrocketed, the air in Britain's cities and towns …
Triumph of the Expert
Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism
Inbunden, 2007
938 kr
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The most striking feature of British colonialism in the twentieth century was the confidence it expressed in the use of science and expertise, especially when joined with the new bureaucratic capacities of the state, to develop natural and human resources of the empire.Triumph of the Expert is a …
Triumph of the Expert
Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism
Häftad, 2007
414 kr
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The most striking feature of British colonialism in the twentieth century was the confidence it expressed in the use of science and expertise, especially when joined with the new bureaucratic capacities of the state, to develop natural and human resources of the empire.Triumph of the Expert is a …
Resurrecting the Granary of Rome
Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa
Häftad, 2007
401 kr
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Tales of deforestation and desertification in North Africa have been told from the Roman period to the present. Such stories of environmental decline in the Maghreb are still recounted by experts and are widely accepted without question today. International organizations such as the United Nations …
Wielding the Ax
State Forestry and Social Conflict in Tanzania, 1820–2000
Inbunden, 2009
938 kr
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Forests have been at the fault lines of contact between African peasant communities in the Tanzanian coastal hinterland and outsiders for almost two centuries. In recent decades, a global call for biodiversity preservation has been the main challenge to Tanzanians and their forests.Thaddeus Sunseri …
Wielding the Ax
State Forestry and Social Conflict in Tanzania, 1820–2000
Häftad, 2009
330 kr
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Forests have been at the fault lines of contact between African peasant communities in the Tanzanian coastal hinterland and outsiders for almost two centuries. In recent decades, a global call for biodiversity preservation has been the main challenge to Tanzanians and their forests.Thaddeus Sunseri …
Game of Conservation
International Treaties to Protect the World's Migratory Animals
Av Mark Cioc
Inbunden, 2009
838 kr
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The Game of Conservation is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable examination of nature protection around the world.Twentieth-century nature conservation treaties often originated as attempts to regulate the pace of killing rather than as attempts to protect animal habitat. Some were prompted …
Game of Conservation
International Treaties to Protect the World's Migratory Animals
Av Mark Cioc
Häftad, 2009
331 kr
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The Game of Conservation is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable examination of nature protection around the world.Twentieth-century nature conservation treaties often originated as attempts to regulate the pace of killing rather than as attempts to protect animal habitat. Some were prompted …
Healing the Herds
Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine
Av Karen Brown, Daniel Gilfoyle
Inbunden, 2010
938 kr
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During the early 1990s, the ability of dangerous diseases to pass between animals and humans was brought once more to the public consciousness. These concerns continue to raise questions about how livestock diseases have been managed over time and in different social, economic, and political …
Healing the Herds
Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine
Av Karen Brown, Daniel Gilfoyle
Häftad, 2010
372 kr
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During the early 1990s, the ability of dangerous diseases to pass between animals and humans was brought once more to the public consciousness. These concerns continue to raise questions about how livestock diseases have been managed over time and in different social, economic, and political …
Nature and History in Modern Italy
Inbunden, 2010
911 kr
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Is Italy il bel paese—the beautiful country—where tourists spend their vacations looking for art, history, and scenery? Or is it a land whose beauty has been cursed by humanity's greed and nature's cruelty? The answer is largely a matter of narrative and the narrator's vision of Italy. The fifteen …
Nature and History in Modern Italy
Häftad, 2010
402 kr
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Is Italy il bel paese—the beautiful country—where tourists spend their vacations looking for art, history, and scenery? Or is it a land whose beauty has been cursed by humanity's greed and nature's cruelty? The answer is largely a matter of narrative and the narrator's vision of Italy. The fifteen …
Mad Dogs and Meerkats
A History of Resurgent Rabies in Southern Africa
Häftad, 2011
401 kr
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Through the ages, rabies has exemplified the danger of diseases that transfer from wild animals to humans and their domestic stock. In South Africa, rabies has been on the rise since the latter part of the twentieth century despite the availability of postexposure vaccines and regular inoculation …
Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa
Av Diana K. Davis, Edmund Burke III
Inbunden, 2011
911 kr
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The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history. Images of endless golden dunes, camel caravans, isolated desert oases, and rivers lined with palm trees have often framed written and visual representations of the region. Embedded in these portrayals is the common …
Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America
Av David M. Gordon, Shepard Krech III
Inbunden, 2012
938 kr
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Indigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles for environmental justice. Yet indigenous knowledges are often viewed, incorrectly, as pure and primordial cultural artifacts. This collection draws from African and North American cases to argue that the forms of knowledge …
Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa
Av Diana K. Davis, Edmund Burke III
Häftad, 2013
361 kr
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The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history. Images of endless golden dunes, camel caravans, isolated desert oases, and rivers lined with palm trees have often framed written and visual representations of the region. Embedded in these portrayals is the common …
Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America
Av David M. Gordon, Shepard Krech III
Häftad, 2013
414 kr
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Indigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles for environmental justice. Yet indigenous knowledges are often viewed, incorrectly, as pure and primordial cultural artifacts. This collection draws from African and North American cases to argue that the forms of knowledge …
Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia
Deposing the Spirits
Inbunden, 2015
929 kr
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Malaria is an infectious disease like no other: it is a dynamic force of nature and Africa's most deadly and debilitating malady. James C. McCann tells the story of malaria in human, narrative terms and explains the history and ecology of the disease through the science of landscape change. All …
Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia
Deposing the Spirits
Häftad, 2015
372 kr
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Malaria is an infectious disease like no other: it is a dynamic force of nature and Africa's most deadly and debilitating malady. James C. McCann tells the story of malaria in human, narrative terms and explains the history and ecology of the disease through the science of landscape change. All …
Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula
Inbunden, 2015
938 kr
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In Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula, Benjamin Reilly illuminates a previously unstudied phenomenon: the large-scale employment of people of African ancestry as slaves in agricultural oases within the Arabian Peninsula. The key to understanding this unusual system, Reilly …
