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Brings together the general lines of interpretation of Italian environmental history from the decades prior to national unification to the present day. Reconstructs processes of change in the use of natural resources in Italy, and the associated environmental and social consequences.

Presents a regional analysis of the spatial and social history of warfare among the nomadic peoples of East Africa, covering a period of 600 years. The long duree facilitates understanding of how warfare among pastoralist communities in earlier centuries contributed to political, economic and ethnic shifts across the grazing lands in East Africa.

This volume aims to grasp the main currents of thought about interactions with the wolf in modern history. It focuses on perceptions, interactions and dependencies, and includes cultural and social analyses as well as biological aspects.

This book is the first major study of British urban arboriculture between 1800 and 1914 and draws upon fresh approaches in geographical, urban and environmental history.

Farming examines 'the link between the landscape and nutrition', the complex set of factors by which food production results from human knowledge of, interaction with and attempted mastery of the natural environment.

This book considers the variegated world of mountains and their development during the last 500 years. At the book's heart stands the question of whether and in what way the 'three-dimensional history' of mountain people may reveal distinctive forms of development.

This reprint of a collection of essays on problems concerning future generations examines questions such as whether intrinsic value should be placed on the preservation of mankind, what are our obligations to posterity, and whether potential people have moral rights.

Katz explores technology's role in dominating both nature and humanity. He argues that technology dominates, and hence destroys, the natural world; it dominates, and hence destroys, critical aspects of human life and society. Technology causes an estrangement from nature, and thus a loss of meaning in human life.

An intellectual biography of pioneering environmental philosophers, Richard Sylvan and Val Plumwood.

Wild Things: Nature and the Social Imagination assembles eleven substantive and original essays on the cultural and social dimensions of environmental history. They address a global cornucopia of social and ecological systems, from Africa to Europe, North America and the Caribbean, and their temporal range extends from the 1830s into the 21st c.

Indigenous Knowledge investigates how indigenous peoples from various cultures interact with and conceptualise their environments, past and present; it offers accounts of indigenous conservation practice and traditional environmental knowledge alongside challenging explorations of how 'knowledge' is filtered through ideologies and subjectivities

Wild Things assembles eleven substantive and original essays on the cultural and social dimensions of environmental history. They address a global cornucopia of social and ecological systems, from Africa to Europe, North America and the Caribbean, and their temporal range extends from the 1830s into the twenty-first century.

The fifth volume in the reader series, 'Themes in Environmental History'. Comprising essays selected from Environment and History and Environmental Values, these inexpensive paperbacks address important aspects of environmental history through theoretical essays and case studies.

A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY, MEANING AND MATERIALITY OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT. There is a blue hole in environmental history. The thirteen essays in this very accessible collection fill it by closing the gap between land and sea, by exploring the ways the earthly and maritime realms influence one another.

AN ACCESSIBLE INTRODUCTION TO BIODIVERSITY, CONSERVATION AND THE ECO-CULTURAL NATURE OF LANDSCAPES. Key issues are addressed in short, focused chapters, supported by a detailed thousand-year timeline based on the British Isles.

The fourth volume in the reader series, 'Themes in Environmental History'. Animals examines human relationships with non-human others, exploring dynamics of exploitation, preservation and cultural interpretation.

A HISTORY OF HUNGARY'S PEOPLE AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT FROM EARLIEST TIMES TO THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY An account of Hungary's past from the perspective of environmental history, incorporating a wide range of environmentally-relevant research findings.

Explores ways in which colonial relations shaped meanings and conflicts over environmental control and management in Malawi.

Thinking Through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global History is a collection offering global perspectives on the intersections of mind and environment across a variety of discourses - from history to politics to the visual arts and architecture - and geographical locations, from Africa and Asia to Europe, North America and Australia.

The volume explores the cultures, environments and histories of deserts from various perspectives, including physics, history, archaeology anthropology. It presents a wide range of desert environments and peoples and the ever-evolving challenges they face.

Changing pastoral dynamics make knowledge of pastoralism vital to understanding landscapes, development and governance across dryland regions. Modern Pastoralism and Conservation: Old Problems, New Challenges presents new pastoral research from Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The volume addresses the nature and viability of pastoralism in practi

This book is part of a wider current in environmental history, that explores the links between nature and nation. It uncovers how Italian identity and mountains have constituted one another.

Conservation Song explores ways in which colonial relations shaped meanings and conflicts over environmental control and management in Malawi. By focusing on soil conservation, which required an integrated approach to the use and management of natural resources, it examines policies and their post-colonial legacy.

Thinking Through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global History is a collection offering global perspectives on the intersections of mind and environment across a variety of discourses - from history to politics to the visual arts and architecture - and geographical locations, from Africa and Asia to Europe, North America and Australia.

In this innovative collection of historical essays the contributors consider a range of past environmental injustices, spanning seven northern and western European countries and with several chapters adding a North American perspective.

A HISTORY OF THE SCIENCE AND IDEAS OF FORESTRY OVER THREE CENTURIES This book tells the story of the hopeful science and trusting art of forestry. It is a story about the hopes of foresters and other scientists to understand the forests more deeply, and about their unspoken trust that their knowledge could ensure an enduring sylvan future

Landscapes is the second in our new series of environmental history readers, suitable for students and researchers. Each inexpensive paperback volume addresses an important theme in environmental history, combining underlying theory and specific c

Chatty's seminal study of the transition from pack animals to mechanized transport in Northern Arabia addresses Bedouin tradition, modernity, and the marriage of the two.]

Enclosing Water is an environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, as inscribed on the Liri valley in Italy's Central Apennines. This book tells the story of how defining water as property - both materially and discursively - led to the emergence of an industrial riverscape, and of a concomitant new ecological consciousness.

Bio-invaders, investigates the rhetoric and realities of exotic, introduced and 'alien' species. The book comprises a number of general essays, exploring and challenging common perceptions about such species, and a series of case studies of specific species in specific contexts.