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A New Ecological Order - Development and the Transformation of Nature in Eastern Europe (Hardcover)
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A New Ecological Order - Development and the Transformation of Nature in Eastern Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Intersections: Histories of Environment
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The rise of industrial capitalism in the 19th century forged a new
ecological order in North American and Western European states,
radically transforming the environment through science and
technology in the name of human progress. Far less known are the
dramatic environmental changes experienced by Eastern Europe, in
many ways a terra incognita for environmental historians and
anthropologists. A New Ecological Order explores, from a historical
and ethnographic perspective, the role of state planners,
bureaucrats, and experts face=Calibri>- engineers, agricultural
engineers, geographers, biologists, foresters, and architects
face=Calibri>- as agents of change in the natural world of
Eastern Europe from 1870 to the early 21st century. Contributors
consider territories engulfed by empires, from the Habsburg to the
Ottoman to tsarist Russia; territories belonging to disintegrating
empires; and countries in the Balkan Peninsula, Central and Eastern
Europe, and Eurasia. Together, they follow a rhetoric of
'correcting nature', a desire to exploit the natural environment
and put its resources to work for the sake of developing the
economies and infrastructures of modern states. They reveal an
eagerness among newly established nation-states, after centuries of
imperial economic and political impositions, to import scientific
knowledge and new technologies from Western Europe that would aid
in their economic development, and how those imports and ideas
about nature ultimately shaped local projects and policies.
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