Environmental History

This book provides an accessible overview of the ways that key areas of technology have impacted global ecosystems and natural communities. It offers a new way of thinking about the overall origins of environmental problems. Combining approaches drawn from environmental biology and the history of sc..

The present and future state of the environment gives rise to increasing concern, but much less is known about the past: the damage that has been done since, and by, the Industrial Revolution; how far our predecessors were aware of it; the steps they took; and the gradual development of a wider conc..

Traces the intellectual roots of the environment movement in terms of its scientific, economic and aesthetic aspects. It examines industrial pollution of land, air and water; action taken to prevent further damage; and economic implications of using up exhaustible resources...

The Middle Ages was a critical and formative time for Western approaches to our natural surroundings. An Environmental History of the Middle Ages is a unique and unprecedented cultural survey of attitudes towards the environment during this period. _x005F_x000D_ Exploring the entire medieval period ..

The Middle Ages was a critical and formative time for Western approaches to our natural surroundings. An Environmental History of the Middle Ages is a unique and unprecedented cultural survey of attitudes towards the environment during this period. _x000D_ Exploring the entire medieval period from 5..

In this edited volume, leading and emerging scholars investigate for the first time the ways in which the size of an animal population impacts how they are viewed by humans and, conversely, how human perceptions of populations impact on animals...

This book questions what it means to be an environmentalist in America, arguing that environmental patriotism can mobilize America’s green consciousness, thereby providing a new history of the American environmental movement...

The fate of the environment was one of the most important issues of the twentieth century and remains a vital problem today, dominating public politics and private interest across the globe and in practice. This is the essential introduction to the debates, the movements, the successes and failures ..

The fate of the environment was one of the most important issues of the twentieth century and remains a vital problem today, dominating public politics and private interest across the globe and in practice. This is the essential introduction to the debates, the movements, the successes and failures ..

Why are our environmental problems still growing despite a huge increase in global conservation efforts? Peterson del Mar untangles this paradox by showing how prosperity is essential to environmentalism. Industrialization drove people to look for meaning in nature even as they consumed its products..

Throughout the early modern period, scientific debate and governmental action became increasingly preoccupied with the environment, generating discussion across Europe and the wider world as to how to improve land and climate for human benefit. This discourse eventually promoted the reconsideration ..

This book faces the challenges and possibilities of conducting cultural and environmental history research today. Disciplinary commitments certainly influence the questions scholars ask and the ways they seek out answers, but some methodological challenges go beyond the boundaries of any one discipl..