The Turning Points of Environmental History

ISBN 13:
9780822961185
ISBN 10:
0822961180
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 10/28/2010
Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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Summary

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.

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

9780822961185

0822961180

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