Télécharger le livre :  Invasive Predators in New Zealand

The story of invasive species in New Zealand is unlike any other in the world. By the mid-thirteenth century, the main islands of the country were the last large landmasses on Earth to remain uninhabited by humans, or any other land mammals. New Zealand’s endemic fauna...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-12-12
Collection : Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Resilient City in World War II

The fate of towns and cities stands at the center of the environmental history of World War II. Broad swaths of cityscapes were destroyed by the bombing of targets such as transport hubs, electrical grids, and industrial districts, and across Europe, Asia, and the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-05-27
Collection : Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
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Télécharger le livre :  Moral Ecologies

This book offers the first systematic study of how elite conservation schemes and policies define once customary and vernacular forms of managing common resources as banditry—and how the ‘bandits’ fight back. Drawing inspiration from Karl Jacoby’s seminal Crimes against...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-03-01
Collection : Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
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Télécharger le livre :  Telling Environmental Histories

This collection explores the intersections of oral history and environmental history. Oral history offers environmental historians the opportunity to understand the ways people’s perceptions, experiences and beliefs about environments change over time. In turn, the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-12-12
Collection : Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
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Télécharger le livre :  El Niño in World History

This book examines the role of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in society. Throughout human history, large or recurrent El Niños could cause significant disruption to societies and in some cases even contribute to political change. Yet it is only now that we are...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-12-11
Collection : Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
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Télécharger le livre :  Arctic Environmental Modernities

This book offers a diverse and groundbreaking account of the intersections between modernities and environments in the circumpolar global North, foregrounding the Arctic as a critical space of modernity, where the past, present, and future of the planet’s environmental...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-02-12
Collection : Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
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Télécharger le livre :  An Environmental History of Southern Malawi

This book is a pioneering and comprehensive study of the environmental history of Southern Malawi. With over fifty years of experience, anthropologist and social ecologist Brian Morris draws on a wide range of data – literary, ethnographic and archival – in this...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-11-29
Collection : Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
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Télécharger le livre :  Dust Bowl

This book takes the Dust Bowl story beyond Depression America to describe the ‘dust bowl’ concept as a transnational phenomenon, where during World War Two, US and Australian national mythologies converged. Dust Bowl begins with Depression America, the New Deal and the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-10-04
Collection : Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
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Télécharger le livre :  The East India Company and the Natural World

This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The contributors – drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines - illuminate the relationship between...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-12-01
Collection : Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
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Télécharger le livre :  Burning Table Mountain

Cape Town's iconic Table Mountain and the surrounding peninsula has been a crucible for attempts to integrate the social and ecological dimensions of wild fire. This environmental history of humans and wildfire outlines these interactions from the practices of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-09-19
Collection : Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
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Télécharger le livre :  Empire and Environmental Anxiety

A new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, and the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and interaction with unknown landscapes. Tying together South Asia and Australasia, this book demonstrates how environmental...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-05-25
Collection : Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
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