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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
"The eighteen essays in "A Field on Fire" present new research paths in topics that are especially promising but insufficiently developed or altogether neglected in the field of environmental history"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A good set of walking shoues / Mark D. Hersey -- Subversive subjects : Donald Worster and the radical origins of environmental history / Ted Steinberg -- Can capitalism ever be green? / Adam Rome -- Seeing like a god : environmentalism in the Anthropocene / Frank Zelko -- The locked door : Thomas Midgley Jr., chlorofluorocarbons, and the unintended consequences of technology / Kevin C. Armitage -- Malibu, California : Edenic illusions and natural disasters / Christof Mauch -- Energizing environmental history / Brian C. Black -- The force of fiber : reconnecting the Philippines with Latin America and the American West via transnational environmental history / Sterling Evans -- Hunting and wilderness in the creation of national identities / Mikko Saikku -- Why we need comparative history : the case of China and the United States / Shen Hou -- The world in a tin can : migrants in environmental history / Marco Armiero -- Down in the sky : the promise of aerial environmental history / Robert Wellman Campbell -- Rivers of dust : an environmental historian appraises the American legal system / Karl Boyd Brooks -- Whole Earth without borders : Earth photographs, space data, and the importance of visual culture within environmental history / Neil M. Maher -- Beyond stories : geospatial influences on the practice of environmental history / Sara M. Gregg -- Low-hanging fruit : science and environmental history / Edmund Russell -- The watershed of war : environmental history and the "big civil war" / Brian Allen Drake -- War from the ground up : integrating military and environmental histories / Lisa M. Brady. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- History.
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Human ecology. |
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History. |
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Environmental sciences -- History.
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Environmental sciences. |
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Environmentalism.
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Environmentalism. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Hersey, Mark D., editor.
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Steinberg, Theodore, 1961- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Field on fire. Tuscaloosa, AL : University of Alabama Press, [2019] 9780817320010 (DLC) 2018026899 (OCoLC)1041901673 |
| ISBN |
9780817392086 (electronic book) |
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0817392084 (electronic book) |
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9780817320010 |
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0817320016 |
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