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Globalization, environmental change, and social history / edited by Peter Boomgaard and Marjolein 't Hart.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- International review of social history. Supplement ; 18.
- International review of social history. Supplement ; 18
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human beings--Effect of environment on.
- Human beings.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Nature.
- Social history.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- Globalization.
- Global environmental change--Social aspects.
- Global environmental change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Globalization, Environmental Change, & Social History
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Throughout all ages, the activities of mankind have weighed heavily upon the environment. In turn, changes in that environment have favoured the rise of certain social groups and limited the actions of others. Despite this, environmental history has remained a 'blind spot' for most social and economic historians. This is to be regretted, as the various and unequal effects of environmental change often explain the strengths and weaknesses of certain social groups, irrespective of their being defined along the lines of class, gender and ethnicity. This volume brings together the expertise of social and environmental historians in an effort to assess the extent to which transnational agents changed socioecological space as a consequence of globalization since the Late Middle Ages.
- Contents:
- Globalization, environmental change, and social history : an introduction / Peter Boomgaard and Marjolein 't Hart
- The El Dorado of forestry : the eucalyptus in India, South Africa, and Thailand, 1850-2000 / Brett M. Bennett
- The Mid-Atlantic islands : a theatre of early modern ecocide? / Stefan Halikowski Smith
- Environmental change and globalization in seventeenth-century France : Dutch traders and the draining of French wetlands (Arles, Petit Poitou) / Raphael Morera
- The colonial famine plot : slavery, free trade, and empire in the French Atlantic, 1763-1791 / Joseph Horan
- Environmental changes, the emergence of a fuel market, and the working conditions of salt makers in Bengal, c.1780-1845 / Sayako Kanda
- Industrial life in a limiting landscape : an environmental interpretation of Stalinist Social conditions in the far north / Andy Bruno
- "Pumpkins just got in there": gender and generational conflict and "improved" agriculture in colonial Zimbabwe / Guy Thompson
- Hydro-businesses : national and global demands on the São Francisco River Basin environment of Brazil / Lucigleide Nery Nascimento and Mimi Larsen Becker.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-22247-8
- 1-139-20222-7
- 1-280-48465-9
- 9786613579638
- 1-139-20661-3
- 1-139-20363-0
- 1-139-20503-X
- 1-139-20582-X
- 0-511-92067-9
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