Title A new ecological order : development and the transformation of nature in Eastern Europe / [edited by] Ştefan Dorondel and Stelu Şerban

Published Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2022] ©2022 Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000

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Description 1 online resource (pages cm.) Series Intersections: histories of environment, science, and technology in the anthropocene Intersections (Pittsburgh, Pa.) Book collections on Project MUSE Summary "The rise of industrial capitalism in the nineteenth century forged a new ecological order in North American and Western European states, radically transforming the environment through science and technology in the name of human progress. Far less known are the dramatic environmental changes experienced by Eastern Europe, in many ways a terra incognita for environmental historians and anthropologists. A New Ecological Order explores, from a historical and ethnographic perspective, the role of state planners, bureaucrats, and experts-engineers, agricultural engineers, geographers, biologists, foresters, and architects-as agents of change in the natural world of Eastern Europe from 1870 to the early twenty-first century. Contributors consider territories engulfed by empires, from the Habsburg to the Ottoman to tsarist Russia; territories belonging to disintegrating empires; and countries in the Balkan Peninsula, Central and Eastern Europe, and Eurasia. Together, they follow a rhetoric of "correcting nature," a desire to exploit the natural environment and put its resources to work for the sake of developing the economies and infrastructures of modern states. They reveal an eagerness among newly established nation-states, after centuries of imperial economic and political impositions, to import scientific knowledge and new technologies from Western Europe that would aid in their economic development, and how those imports and ideas about nature ultimately shaped local projects and policies"-- Provided by publisher Notes Description based on print version record Subject Rural development -- Europe, Eastern -- History Natural resources -- Europe, Eastern -- History Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Europe, Eastern -- History NATURE / General Ecology Economic development -- Environmental aspects Economic history Natural resources Rural development SUBJECT Europe, Eastern -- Environmental conditions Europe, Eastern -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045769 Subject Eastern Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Șerban, Stelu, editor Dorondel, Ștefan, 1968- editor. Project Muse. distributor. LC no. 2022000992 ISBN 9780822988847 0822988844

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