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The Turning Points of Environmental History.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (219 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822977629
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Turning Points of Environmental HistoryDDC classification:
  • 333.7209
LOC classification:
  • GE50
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Thinking Big: The Broad Outlines of a Burgeoning Field -- 2. The First Hundred Thousand Years -- 3. Agriculture -- 4. Forest History -- 5. The Nation-State -- 6. Urban Environmental History -- 7. The "1950s Syndrome" and the Transition from a Slow-Going to a Rapid Loss of Global Sustainability -- 8. Modern Environmentalism -- 9. The Knowledge Society -- 10. Desertification -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Summary: In this volume, an international group of environmental historians examine the significant ways in which humans have impacted their surroundings throughout history.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Thinking Big: The Broad Outlines of a Burgeoning Field -- 2. The First Hundred Thousand Years -- 3. Agriculture -- 4. Forest History -- 5. The Nation-State -- 6. Urban Environmental History -- 7. The "1950s Syndrome" and the Transition from a Slow-Going to a Rapid Loss of Global Sustainability -- 8. Modern Environmentalism -- 9. The Knowledge Society -- 10. Desertification -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index.

In this volume, an international group of environmental historians examine the significant ways in which humans have impacted their surroundings throughout history.

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