Environmental History

As If Nature Existed
Herausgeber: Mcneill; Rangarajan, Mahesh; Padua, Jose Augusto

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings to the reader the history of the alteration of environment by human action, and the reciprocal influence of the environment upon human history. A set of macro- and micro-regional studies of environmental history and economic development with respect to India, China, Bangladesh, and Brazil are discussed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 146mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 437g
• ISBN-13: 9780198064480
• ISBN-10: 0198064489
• Artikelnr.: 29020100

Autorenporträt

Mahesh Rangarajan, Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi; Josè Augusto Pádua, Professor of Environmental History at the History Department and PhD Program on Social History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, J.R. McNeill, University Professor of History, Georgetown University.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1.: Global Studies
* Environmental History in General and in Asia; Out of the Frying Pan
and into the Fire; Industrialization as a Socio-ecological Transition
Process; Urban Sanitation through the Lens of Thomas Kuhn; Economic
Development, Environment and Society: Reading Karl William Kapp
(1910-1976);
* 2.: Macro-Regional Studies
* Environmental Resources and Chinese Historical Development; Of Nature
and Nationalism: Rethinking India's Nehru; European Colonialism and
Tropical Forest Destruction in Brazil: The Environmental Dimension
beyond Economic History;
* 3.: Micro-regional Studies
* Globalization and Tribal Histories in Eastern India; From the Green
Revolution to the Gene Revolution in India: 1965-2007; Migration and
Ecological Consequences: the Case of Kerala, India; Policy Root in
Environmental Degradation: the Case of Chittagong Hill Tracts of
Bangladesh.