"Historians and Nature" considers five cutting-edge questions
facing environmental historians today. How can we historicize
nature? Is nature a historical actor? How have human beings
interacted with nature and what patterns have emerged? How do we
understand the ecology of urban spaces? What is the history of
environmental diplomacy? Focusing on the United States and Germany,
the book takes a comparative approach in examining environmental
history. The authors draw on a range of interdisciplinary
perspectives, including history, cultural studies, human geography,
biology and ecology. Case studies include Native Americans and
their relationship to the environment, the California Gold Rush and
the Coal Fields of the Ruhr Basin in the nineteenth century, the
controversial building of dikes in seventeenth-century Germany,
cleaning up modern cities, and the Greenpeace movement and the
development of international environmental activism in the 1970s.
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