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Thinking Through the Environment - Green Approaches to Global History (Hardcover, New)
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Thinking Through the Environment - Green Approaches to Global History (Hardcover, New)
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Thinking through the Environment: Green Approaches to Global
History is a collection offering global perspectives on the
intersections of mind and environment across a variety of
discourses - from history and politics to the visual arts and
architecture. Its geographical coverage extends to locations in
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. A primary aim of
the volume is, through the presentation of research cases, to
gather an appropriate methodological arsenal for the study of
environmental history. Among its concerns are interdisciplinarity,
eco-biography, the relationship of political and environmental
history and culturally varied interpretations and appreciations of
space - from Bangladesh to the Australian outback. The approaches
of the indigenous peoples of Lapland, Mount Kilimanjaro and
elsewhere to their environments are scrutinised in several
chapters. Balancing survival - both in terms of resource
exploitation and of response to natural catastrophes - and
environmental protection is shown to be an issue for more and less
developed societies, as illustrated by chapters on Sami reindeer
herding, Sudanese cattle husbandry and flooding and water
resource-use in several parts of Europe. As the title suggests, the
volume exposes the lenses - tinted by culture and history - through
which humans consider environments; and also foregrounds the
importance of rigor- ous 'thinking through' of the lessons of
environmental history and the challenges of the environmental
future.
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