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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... century treatise The Muqaddimah , especially in his stress on the ebb and flow of pastoral nomadic and sedentary adaptations in the history of North Africa and the Middle East . And George Perkins Marsh's magisterial meditation on Man ...
... century it came to control a little over a fifth of India's land area . It was by far the big- gest landlord in a very large country , a status it continues to enjoy to this day . [ ca Although separated by some 10,000 miles , the ...
... century , however , it had moved steadily out- ward to embrace much of the globe . France was a pioneer , intro- ducing a Forest Code in the fourteenth century and a stricter forest ordinance in 1669 , both initiatives aimed at ...
Contents
GOING GREEN | 7 |
THE IDEOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC CONSERVATION | 25 |
THE GROWTH OF THE WILDERNESS IDEA | 44 |
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