具体描述
Environmental History is one of the most exciting and rapidly expanding new areas of historical study, and it draws upon a wide range of disciplines for its insights and themes. With contributions from historians, geographers, anthropologists and natural scientists, Nature's End provides fifteen essays that cover key themes and methods in the field and address both newcomers and seasoned practitioners. These studies illustrate the diversity of approaches to historic relationships between humans and their environments, but throughout the book connect these to core narratives in more traditional history: the role of the state and institutions, the importance of intellectual fashions and politics, and the role of the sciences and history itself, as well as the importance of ecology, conservation, risk and human destiny.
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目录信息
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
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