Nature and the Orient: The Environmental History of South and Southeast Asia
Experts in history, history of science, archaeology, geography, and environmental studies examine the history of the region.
Experts in history, history of science, archaeology, geography, and environmental studies examine the history of the region.
An environmental history of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil from pre-modern times to the late twentieth century.
Introduces nonregimes into the study of global governance, and compares successes with failures in the formation of environmental treaties.
Jan Oosthoek tells in this book the story of how 20th century foresters devised ways to successfully reforest the poor Scottish uplands.
This volume focuses on environmental knowledge production in the United States by taking as starting points the impact of natural catastrophes and of public debates on climate change and environmental threats.
Disrupted Landscapes focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist Romania, in which the transition from collectivization to privatization profoundly reshaped the nation’s forests, farmlands, and rivers.
Across eleven chapters, the contributors to this edited volume survey the histories of state forestry policy in Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Germany, Poland, and Great Britain from the early modern period to the present.
In linking culture with nature, science with history, Man and Nature was the most influential text of its time next to Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.
Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment is the first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial studies.