Globalization, environmental change, and social history

Bibliographische Detailangaben
Weitere Verfasser: Boomgaard, Peter 1946-2017 (BerichterstatterIn)
Format: E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010
Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel:International review of social history Special issue 18
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:International review of social history
Schlagworte:Human beings Nature Social history Globalization Global environmental change Umwelt Globalisierung Geschichte 1700-2000
Umfang:233 Seiten
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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 influencing meanings and uses of the São Francisco River Basin environment of Brazil Lucigleide Nery Nascimento and Mimi Larsen Becker.