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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... Europe , and the settlement and spread of European popula- tions in the New World , devastated large areas of forest and wilderness . There arose in response a movement of artists and scientists which aimed to lock up areas still ...
... EUROPE Two Chiefs of the United States Forest Service outline their country's debt to Germany and Germans . 1. We see the need of curbing individualistic exploitation and we are looking towards the future with justified apprehension ...
... Europe . In this sense , the monumental and unsurpassed scenery of the West provided American patriots with a way to answer Europe , the ancient civilization with respect to which they had a marked inferiority complex . John Muir was ...
Contents
GOING GREEN | 7 |
THE IDEOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC CONSERVATION | 25 |
THE GROWTH OF THE WILDERNESS IDEA | 44 |
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