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A Field on Fire: The Future of Environmental History

Editat de Mark D. Hersey, Ted Steinberg Contribuţii de Marco Armiero, Kevin C. Armitage, Brian C. Black, Lisa M. Brady, Karl Boyd Brooks, Robert Wellman Campbell, Brian Allen Drake, Sterling Evans, Sara M. Gregg, Shen Hou, Neil M. Maher, Christof Mauch, Daniel T. Rodgers, Adam Rome, Edmund Russell, Mikko Saikku, Frank Zelko
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 ian 2019 – vârsta ani
Featuring wide-ranging essays by leading environmental historians from the US, Europe, and China, the collection challenges scholars to rethink some of their orthodoxies, inviting them to approach familiar stories from new angles, to integrate new methodologies, and to think creatively about the questions this field is well positioned to answer.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780817320010
ISBN-10: 0817320016
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: 13 B&W figures - 4 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University Of Alabama Press
Colecția University Alabama Press

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Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: A Good Set of Walking Shoes by Mark D. Hersey
Part I. Facing Limits
Chapter 1. Subversive Subjects: Donald Worster and the Radical Origins of Environmental History by Ted Steinberg
Chapter 2. Can Capitalism Ever Be Green? by Adam Rome
Chapter 3. Seeing Like a God: Environmentalism in the Anthropocene by Frank Zelko
Chapter 4. The Locked Door: Thomas Midgley Jr., Chlorofluorocarbons, and the Unintended Consequences of Technology by Kevin C. Armitage
Chapter 5. Malibu, California: Edenic Illusions and Natural Disasters by Christof Mauch
Chapter 6. Energizing Environmental History by Brian C. Black
Part II. World without Borders
Chapter 7. The Force of Fiber: Reconnecting the Philippines with Latin America and the American West via Transnational Environmental History by Sterling Evans
Chapter 8. Hunting and Wilderness in the Creation of National Identities by Mikko Saikku
Chapter 9. Why We Need Comparative History: The Case of China and the United States by Shen Hou
Chapter 10. The World in a Tin Can: Migrants in Environmental History by Marco Armiero
Chapter 11. Down in the Sky: The Promise of Aerial Environmental History by Robert Wellman Campbell
Chapter 12. Rivers of Dust: An Environmental Historian Appraises the American Legal System by Karl Boyd Brooks
Part III. Doing Environmental History
Chapter 13. Whole Earthwithout Borders: Earth Photographs, Space Data, and the Importance of Visual Culture within Environmental History by Neil M. Maher
Chapter 14. Beyond Stories: Geospatial Influences on the Practice of Environmental History by Sara M. Gregg
Chapter 15. Low-Hanging Fruit: Science and Environmental History by Edmund Russell
Chapter 16. The Watershed of War: Environmental History and the “Big Civil War” by Brian Allen Drake
Chapter 17. War from the Ground Up: Integrating Military and Environmental Histories by Lisa M. Brady
Afterword: The Distinctiveness of Environmental History by Daniel T. Rodgers
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index