Environing Empire

Martin Kalb

• Hardcover | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 23
• Even leaving aside the vast death and suffering that it wrought on indigenous populations, German ambitions to transform Southwest Africa in the early... Lees meer

Managing Northern Europe's Forests

• Paperback | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 12
• Northern Europe was, by many accounts, the birthplace of much of modern forestry practice, and for hundreds of years the region's woodlands have playe... Lees meer

Managing the Unknown

• Paperback | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 3
• Information is crucial when it comes to the management of resources. But what if knowledge is incomplete, or biased, or otherwise deficient? How did p... Lees meer

Creating Wilderness

Patrick Kupper

• Hardcover | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 4
• The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book. U... Lees meer

Managing the Unknown

• Hardcover | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 3
• Information is crucial when it comes to the management of resources. But what if knowledge is incomplete, or biased, or otherwise deficient? How did p... Lees meer

Managing Northern Europe's Forests

• Hardcover | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 12
• Northern Europe was, by many accounts, the birthplace of much of modern forestry practice, and for hundreds of years the region's woodlands have playe... Lees meer

In the Name of the Great Work

• Paperback | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 10
• Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalin's vision of a total "transformation of n... Lees meer

International Organizations and Environmental Protection

• Paperback | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 11
• Pollution, resource depletion, habitat management, and climate change are all issues that necessarily transcend national boundaries. Accordingly, they... Lees meer

Powerless Science?

• Paperback | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 2
• In spite of decades of research on toxicants, along with the growing role of scientific expertise in public policy and the unprecedented rise in the n... Lees meer

Hazardous Chemicals

• Hardcover | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 17
• Although poisonous substances have been a hazard for the whole of human history, it is only with the development and large-scale production of new che... Lees meer

Planning for the Planet

Simone Schleper

• Hardcover | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 16
• During the 1960s and 1970s, rapidly growing environmental awareness and concern created unprecedented demand for ecological expertise and novel challe... Lees meer

Fault Lines

Giacomo Parrinello

• Paperback | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 6
• Earth's fractured geology is visible in its fault lines. It is along these lines that earthquakes occur, sometimes with disastrous effects. These dist... Lees meer

A Living Past

• Paperback | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 13
• Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume... Lees meer

Hazardous Chemicals

• Paperback | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 17
• Although poisonous substances have been a hazard for the whole of human history, it is only with the development and large-scale production of new che... Lees meer

Cycling and Recycling

• Hardcover | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 7
• Technology has long been an essential consideration in public discussions of the environment, with the focus overwhelmingly on creating new tools and ... Lees meer

Ice and Snow in the Cold War

• Hardcover | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 14
• The history of the Cold War has focused overwhelmingly on statecraft and military power, an approach that has naturally placed Moscow and Washington c... Lees meer

A Living Past

• Hardcover | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 13
• Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume... Lees meer

Changes in the Air

Eleonora Rohland

• Hardcover | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 15
• Hurricanes have been a constant in the history of New Orleans. Since before its settlement as a French colony in the eighteenth century, the land entw... Lees meer

Civilizing Nature

• Hardcover | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 1
• National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United State... Lees meer

Risk on the Table

• Hardcover | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 21
• Over the last century, the industrialization of agriculture and processing technologies have made food abundant and relatively inexpensive for much of... Lees meer

Conservation's Roots

• Hardcover | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 19
• The ideas and practices that comprise "conservation" are often assumed to have arisen within the last two centuries. However, while conservation today... Lees meer

Cycling and Recycling

• Paperback | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 7
• Technology has long been an essential consideration in public discussions of the environment, with the focus overwhelmingly on creating new tools and ... Lees meer

The Meanings of a Disaster

Karena Kalmbach

• Hardcover | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 20
• The disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was an event of obviously transnational significance-not only in the airborne particulates it deposi... Lees meer

Colonial Seeds in African Soil

Paul Munro

• Hardcover | Engels | Environment in History: International Perspectives | nr. 18
• "Empire forestry"-the broadly shared forest management practice that emerged in the West in the nineteenth century-may have originated in Europe, but ... Lees meer