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This volume begins with John McNeill, who provides a wide-ranging account of environmental history, followed by top environmental studies scholars, who explore the use and abuse of the earth's land, the unique challenges of cities, and the rise of nation-states, bringing about environmental legislation and, ultimately, environmental and ecological activism. Book jacket.

Frank Uekoetter is a Dilthey Fellow with the Research Institute of the Deutsches Museum and deputy director of the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, Germany. He is the author of The Age of Smoke: Environmental Policy in Germany and the United States, 1880–1970.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Thinking Big: The Broad Outlines of a Burgeoning Field	p. 1
The First Hundred Thousand Years	p. 13
Agriculture	p. 29
Forest History	p. 44
The Nation-State	p. 55
Urban Environmental History	p. 72
The "1950s Syndrome" and the Transition from a Slow-Going to a Rapid Loss of Global Sustainability	p. 90
Modern Environmentalism	p. 119
The Knowledge Society	p. 132
Desertification	p. 146
Notes	p. 163
List of Contributors	p. 201
Index	p. 203
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The Turning Points of Environmental History

The Turning Points of Environmental History

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