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The Destruction of the Bison
An Environmental History, 1750-1920
Häftad, 2020
393 kr
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For the last twenty years, The Destruction of the Bison has been an essential work in environmental history. Andrew C. Isenberg offers a concise analysis of the near-extinction of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than 1000 a century later. His …
An Environmental History of Russia
Av Paul Josephson, Nicolai Dronin m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
485 kr
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The former Soviet empire spanned eleven time zones and contained half the world's forests; vast deposits of oil, gas and coal; various ores; major rivers such as the Volga, Don and Angara; and extensive biodiversity. These resources and animals, as well as the people who lived in the former Soviet …
Medieval Riverscapes
Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, c. 300-1100
Häftad, 2025
479 kr
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Fishermen, monks, saints, and dragons met in medieval riverscapes; their interactions reveal a rich and complex world. Using religious narrative sources to evaluate the environmental mentalities of medieval communities, Ellen F. Arnold explores the cultural meanings applied to rivers over a broad …
Stockholm and the Rise of Global Environmental Governance
The Human Environment
Av Sverker Sörlin, Eric Paglia
Inbunden, 2024
1726 kr
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This unique history examines global environmental governance through the lens of Stockholm, which has played an outsized role in shaping its development. Fifty years before Greta Thunberg started her School Strike for Climate, Swedish diplomats initiated the seminal 1972 U.N. Conference on the …
Environment, Power, and Injustice
A South African History
Häftad, 2003
623 kr
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This book presents the socio-environmental history of black people around Kuruman, on the edge of the Kalahari in South Africa. Considering successive periods - Tswana agropastoral chiefdoms before colonial contact, the Cape frontier, British colonial rule, Apartheid, and the homeland of …
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 …
The Danish Revolution, 1500-1800
An Ecohistorical Interpretation
Häftad, 2006
435 kr
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This book tells the story of a fertile European country that, as a result of over population and military armament, over exploited its fields and forests in a non-sustainable fashion. By the eighteenth century Denmark, along with other European countries, found itself in an ecological crisis …
Fish versus Power
An Environmental History of the Fraser River
Häftad, 2007
601 kr
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Fish versus Power is an environmental history of the Fraser River (British Columbia) and the attempts to dam it for power and to defend it for salmon. Amid contemporary debates over large dam development and declines in fisheries, this book offers a case study of a river basin where development …
The Ecology of Oil
Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938
Häftad, 2009
737 kr
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An exploration of the social and environmental consequences of oil extraction in the tropical rainforest. Using northern Veracruz as a case study, the author argues that oil production generated major historical and environmental transformations in land tenure systems and uses, and social …
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 Ends of the Earth
Perspectives on Modern Environmental History
Inbunden, 1989
1514 kr
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Since 1492, when Columbus 'discovered' America, the world has been moving toward an increasingly integrated global economy, higher population levels and consequently greater resource demands, and an increasingly precarious state of the biosphere. These developments play a major part in both modern …
The Ends of the Earth
Perspectives on Modern Environmental History
Häftad, 1989
569 kr
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Since 1492, when Columbus 'discovered' America, the world has been moving toward an increasingly integrated global economy, higher population levels and consequently greater resource demands, and an increasingly precarious state of the biosphere. These developments play a major part in both modern …
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 …
A New Face on the Countryside
Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800
Häftad, 1990
448 kr
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In this book, Timothy Silver traces the effects of English settlement on South Atlantic ecology, showing how three cultures - Indian, European, and African - interacted with and were, in turn, affected by, their changing environment. In assessing such ecological changes, Silver pays particular …
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 …
Green Imperialism
Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860
Av Richard H. Grove, Donald Worster
Inbunden, 1995
1526 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 …
A Plague of Sheep
Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico
Av Elinor G. K. Melville, Elinor G. K. Melville
Inbunden, 1994
1628 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 …
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 …
The Danish Revolution, 1500-1800
An Ecohistorical Interpretation
Inbunden, 1994
1801 kr
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This book tells the story of a fertile European country that, as a result of over population and military armament, over exploited its fields and forests in a non-sustainable fashion. By the eighteenth century Denmark, along with other European countries, found itself in an ecological crisis …
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 Untilled Garden
Natural History and the Spirit of Conservation in America, 1740-1840
Inbunden, 2009
1391 kr
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This study traces the origins of conservation thinking in America to the naturalists who explored the middle-western frontier between 1740 and 1840. Their inquiries yielded a comprehensive natural history of America and inspired much of the conservation and ecological thinking we associate with …
The Mountains of the Mediterranean World
Av J. R. McNeill, Donald Worster
Häftad, 2003
586 kr
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This book describes and analyses the environmental history of the mountain areas of the Mediterranean world, focusing on Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Morocco. The author examines the land and its people and concludes that great changes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries created the …
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 …
Nature Incorporated
Industrialization and the Waters of New England
Av Theodore Steinberg, Donald Worster
Häftad, 2004
553 kr
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Nature Incorporated explores the Industrial Revolution in New England from an environmental perspective. The advent of the industrial age brought about significant changes in gender and class relations, and also in work and culture, but it also involved a fundamental change in the way the natural …
Sediments of Time
Environment and Society in Chinese History
Av Mark Elvin, Ts'ui-jung Liu m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
2482 kr
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This collection of essays was the first relatively comprehensive survey of the environmental history of China. Written by some of the world's leading Western and Chinese experts, Sediments of Time crystallises a new and distinct field of scholarship that studies what happens when human social …
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 …
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 …
