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A Field on Fire - The Future of Environmental History (Hardcover)
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A Field on Fire - The Future of Environmental History (Hardcover)
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A frank and engaging exploration of the burgeoning academic field
of environmental history Inspired by the pioneering work of
preeminent environmental historian Donald Worster, the contributors
to A Field on Fire: The Future of Environmental History reflect on
the past and future of this discipline. Featuring wide-ranging
essays by leading environmental historians from the United States,
Europe, and China, the collection challenges scholars to rethink
some of their orthodoxies, inviting them to approach familiar
stories from new angles, to integrate new methodologies, and to
think creatively about the questions this field is well positioned
to answer. Worster's groundbreaking research serves as the
organizational framework for the collection. Editors Mark D. Hersey
and Ted Steinberg have arranged the book into three sections
corresponding to the primary concerns of Worster's influential
scholarship: the problem of natural limits, the transnational
nature of environmental issues, and the question of method. Under
the heading "Facing Limits," five essays explore the inherent
tensions between democracy, technology, capitalism, and the
environment. The "Crossing Borders" section underscores the ways in
which environmental history moves easily across national and
disciplinary boundaries. Finally, "Doing Environmental History"
invokes Worster's work as an essayist by offering self-conscious
reflections about the practice and purpose of environmental
history. The essays aim to provoke a discussion on the future of
the field, pointing to untapped and underdeveloped avenues ripe for
further exploration. A forward thinker like Worster presents bold
challenges to a new generation of environmental historians on
everything from capitalism and the Anthropocene to war and
wilderness. This engaging volume includes a very special afterword
by one of Worster's oldest friends, the eminent intellectual
historian Daniel Rodgers, who has known Worster for close to fifty
years.
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