A Field on Fire: The Future of Environmental History 9780817320010, 9780817392086, 2011285313, 1894199227, 0817320016
A frank and engaging exploration of the burgeoning academic field of environmental history Inspired by the pioneering w
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Table of contents :
A good set of walking shoues / Mark D. Hersey --
Subversive subjects : Donald Worster and the radical origins of environmental history / Ted Steinberg --
Can capitalism ever be green? / Adam Rome --
Seeing like a god : environmentalism in the Anthropocene / Frank Zelko --
The locked door : Thomas Midgley Jr., chlorofluorocarbons, and the unintended consequences of technology / Kevin C. Armitage --
Malibu, California : Edenic illusions and natural disasters / Christof Mauch --
Energizing environmental history / Brian C. Black --
The force of fiber : reconnecting the Philippines with Latin America and the American West via transnational environmental history / Sterling Evans --
Hunting and wilderness in the creation of national identities / Mikko Saikku --
Why we need comparative history : the case of China and the United States / Shen Hou --
The world in a tin can : migrants in environmental history / Marco Armiero --
Down in the sky : the promise of aerial environmental history / Robert Wellman Campbell --
Rivers of dust : an environmental historian appraises the American legal system / Karl Boyd Brooks --
Whole Earth without borders : Earth photographs, space data, and the importance of visual culture within environmental history / Neil M. Maher --
Beyond stories : geospatial influences on the practice of environmental history / Sara M. Gregg --
Low-hanging fruit : science and environmental history / Edmund Russell --
The watershed of war : environmental history and the "big civil war" / Brian Allen Drake --
War from the ground up : integrating military and environmental histories / Lisa M. Brady.
