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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... ideology has led some commentators to claim that environmentalism is conduc- ive to authoritarian thinking . When the German Green Party was formed in the 1970s ( a development explored in Chapter Five ) , some of its opponents darkly ...
A Global History Ramachandra Guha. 3 The Ideology of Scientific Conservation CONSERVATION INTERNATIONALISM In May 1864 the well - known New York firm of Charles Scribners published a volume called Man ... IDEOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC CONSERVATION.
... ideology of social justice . Gandhi , for instance , has given Indian environmentalists their most favored tech- niques of protest as well as a moral vocabulary to oppose the des- truction of the village economy by industrialization ...
Contents
GOING GREEN | 7 |
THE IDEOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC CONSERVATION | 25 |
THE GROWTH OF THE WILDERNESS IDEA | 44 |
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