The Oxford handbook of environmental history

The Oxford handbook of environmental history / edited by Andrew C. Isenberg.

Since the early 1980s, environmental history has been widely recognized within the mainstream of academic history. The work of the pioneering generation of environmental historians - including William Cronon, Alfred Crosby, Carolyn Merchant, William McNeill, Stephen Pyne, Susan Schrepfer, Richard Wh...

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Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Other Authors: Isenberg, Andrew C. (Andrew Christian) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Series:Oxford handbooks.
Subjects:
Human ecology > History.
Environmental sciences > History.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > History.
Electronic books.
e-books.
Environmental sciences
Human ecology
Nature > Effect of human beings on
Historische Umweltforschung
Umwelt
Écologie humaine > Histoire.
Sciences de l'environnement > Histoire.
Nature > Effets de l'homme > Histoire.
Humanekologi > historia.
Miljövetenskap > historia.
Människans påverkan på naturen > historia.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Part I Dynamic Environments and Cultures; 1 Beyond Weather: The Culture and Politics of Climate History; 2 Animals and the Intimacy of History; 3 Beyond Virgin Soils: Disease as Environmental History; 4 Deserts; 5 Seas of Grass: Grasslands in World Environmental History; 6 New Patterns in Old Places: Forest History for the Global Present; 7 The Tropics: A Brief History of an Environmental Imaginary; Part II Knowing Nature; 8 And All Was Light?-Science and Environmental History
  • 9 Toward an Environmental History of Technology10 New Chemical Bodies: Synthetic Chemicals, Regulation, and Human Health; 11 Rethinking American Exceptionalism: Toward a Transnational History of National Parks, Wilderness, and Protected Areas; 12 Restoration and the Search for Counter-Narratives; 13 Region, Scenery, and Power: Cultural Landscapes in Environmental History; Part III Working and Owning; 14 A Metabolism of Society: Capitalism for Environmental Historians; 15 Owning Nature: Toward an Environmental History of Private Property
  • 16 Work, Nature, and History: A Single Question, that Once Moved Like Light17 The Nature of Desire: Consumption in Environmental History; 18 Law and the Environment; 19 Confluences of Nature and Culture: Cities in Environmental History; Part IV Entangling Alliances; 20 Race and Ethnicity in Environmental History; 21 Women and Gender: Useful Categories of Analysis in Environmental History; 22 Conquest to Convalescence: Nature and Nation in United States History; 23 Boundless Nature: Borders and the Environment in North America and Beyond
  • 24 Crossing Boundaries: The Environment in International Relations25 The Politics of Nature; Index

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