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Title The Oxford handbook of environmental history / edited by Andrew C. Isenberg
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Oxford handbooks
Oxford handbooks.
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
Summary 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 White, and Donald Worster - has strongly influenced the way academic history is practiced. While environmental history owes its visibility and sense of purpose in part to environmentalism, the fieldʹs intellectual roots date back to the nineteenth century, particularly to the work of scholars such as George Perkins Marsh and Frederick Jackson Turner. -- Publisher description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 30, 2014)
Subject 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.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Isenberg, Andrew C. (Andrew Christian), editor.
Oxford University Press
ISBN 9780199983629
0199983623
9780195324907
0195324900
Other Titles Handbook of environmental history
Environmental history