The Oxford handbook of environmental history /
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Oxford handbooks.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. A new environmental history / Andrew C. Isenberg
- Part I. Dynamic environments and cultures
- 1. Beyond weather: the culture and politics of climate history / Mark Carey
- 2. Animals and the intimacy of history / Brett L. Walker
- 3. Beyond virgin soils: disease as environmental history / Linda Nash
- 4. Deserts / Diana K. Davis
- 5. Seas of grass: grasslands in world environmental history / Andrew C. Isenberg
- 6. New patterns in old places: forest history for the global present / Emily K. Brock
- 7. The tropics: a brief history of an environmental imaginary / Paul S. Sutter
- Part II. Knowing nature
- 8. And all was light?: science and environmental history / Michael Lewis
- 9. Toward an environmental history of technology / Sara B. Pritchard-- 10. New chemical bodies: synthetic chemicals, regulation, and human health / Nancy Langston
- 11. Rethinking American exceptionalism: toward a transnational history of national parks, wilderness, and protected areas / James Morton Turner
- 12. Restoration and the search for counter-narratives / Marcus Hall
- 13. Region, scenery, and power: cultural landscapes in environmental history / Thomas Lekan and Thomas Zeller
- Part III. Working and owning
- 14. A metabolism of society: capitalism for environmental historians / Steven Stoll
- 15. Owning nature: toward an environmental history of private property / Louis Warren
- 16. Work, nature, and history: a single question, that once moved like light / Thomas G. Andrews
- 17. The nature of desire: consumption in environmental history / Matthew Klingle
- 18. Law and the environment / Kathleen A. Brosnan
- 19. Confluences of nature and culture: cities in environmental history / Lawrence Culver
- Part IV. Entangling alliances
- 20. Race and ethnicity in environmental history / Connie Y. Chiang
- 21. Women and gender: useful categories of analysis in environmental history / Nancy C. Unger
- 22. Conquest to convalescence: nature and nation in United States history / William Deverell
- 23. Boundless nature: borders and the environment in North America and beyond / Andrew R. Graybill
- 24. Crossing boundaries: the environment in international relations / Kurk Dorsey
- 25. The politics of nature / Frank Zelko.