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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... wilderness idea . The industrialization of 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 ...
A Global History Ramachandra Guha. 4 The Growth of the Wilderness Idea I shift now to a third variety of environmentalism , the conservation of wild species and wild habitats . The formal history of wilderness conservation is little more ...
... WILDERNESS THINKING IS INTEGRATED WITH THE SECOND A historical geographer's perceptive analysis of why Aldo Leopold's ideas resonate so deeply with the wilderness lovers of the present day : Leopold's land ethic is immensely popular ...
Contents
GOING GREEN | 7 |
THE IDEOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC CONSERVATION | 25 |
THE GROWTH OF THE WILDERNESS IDEA | 44 |
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