Environmentalism: A Global HistoryLongman, 2000 - 161 pages A new entry in the Longman World History Series, Environmentalism: A Global History is perfect for professors who want to assign short topical paperbacks which explore global issues and movements in their world history classes. This volume will fit into the second half of World History courses which typically cover the period from 1500 to the present century. Environmentalism: A Global History is the first genuinely global history of environmentalism. Written by one of the foremost thinkers on ecological issues relating to South Africa, Guha has become one of the more provocative and perceptive commentators on environmentalism in its cross-cultural and global dimensions. Students will find this new text to be a lively and engaging study of ideas and debates that are central to our lives in the twentieth-first century. |
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... Africa . Characteristic- ally for the times , there were no Africans present , the delegates to the meeting being the foreign ministers of the European colonial powers who then controlled the continent : France , Germany , Belgium ...
... Africa , the progress of conservation was linked to the development of a distinct settler identity . As English and Dutch colonists settled in for the long haul , identifying with Africa and turn- ing their backs on their country of ...
... Africa , with its endangered populations of spectacular mammals such as the elephant and the lion , has for good ... Africa's Wildlife ( New York : Alfred Knopf , 1993 ) , and John M. Mackenzie , The Empire of Nature : Hunting ...
Contents
GOING GREEN | 7 |
THE IDEOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC CONSERVATION | 25 |
THE GROWTH OF THE WILDERNESS IDEA | 44 |
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