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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... John Muir in the pantheon of the wilderness movement is the man we now come to , Aldo Leopold . HOW AND HOW NOT TO REVERENCE NATURE John Muir on the threats to nature , and how to forestall or work around them . 1. Travellers in the ...
... John M. Mackenzie , The Empire of Nature : Hunting , Conservation and British Imperial- ism ( Manchester ... John Muir completes the holy trinity of American environmentalists : and among the slew of modern works on or around Muir are ...
... John 73 Kelly , Petra 91 , 92 , 144 Kempton , Willett 99 Kennedy , John F. 72 Kenya : environmentalism in 102-3 Keynes , John Maynard 72 , 145 Khor Kong Peng , Martin 142-3 King , Martin Luther 84 Kruger , Paul 46 Kumarappa , J. C. 23–4 ...
Contents
GOING GREEN | 7 |
THE IDEOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC CONSERVATION | 25 |
THE GROWTH OF THE WILDERNESS IDEA | 44 |
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