| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 404 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Note |
Emerged from the conference 'Common ground, converging gazes', held in September 2008 at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Breaking down borders : integrating the social and environmental in history / Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud and Stephen Mosley -- Angling and nature : environment, leisure, class and culture in Briain 1750-1975 / Richard Coopey and Tim Shakesheff -- Les pratiques de pêche à la ligne en France (c. 1870-c. 1930) : aux origines d'une conscience environnementale / Jean-Francois Malange -- Seaside tourism and environmental history / John K. Walton -- Le village et le bois : la perception de la nature et de la forêt à travers les délits forestiers en Guyenne au XVIIIe siècle / Philippe Cremieu-Alcan -- "One to sit among the dandelions, the other to organise the docks" : la question de l'union de l'environnemental et du social en Angleterre au XIXe siècle / Charles-Francois Mathis -- Nature conservation and the German labour movement : the Touristenverein die Naturfreunde as a bridge between social and environmental history / Ute Hasenöhrl -- Main-d'œuvre agricole et produits toxiques aux États-Unis : la mobilisation des campesinos mexicains et mexicains-américains au Texas (1966-1986) / Lucienne Néraud -- "How can any community be expected to accept such a scar?" : the movement against destruction and environmental activism in postwar Baltimore / Robert Gioielli -- Forests in conflict : rural populations and the advent of modern forestry in pre-industrial Germany, 1760-1860 / Richard Hölzl -- Livestock diseases, racial politics and veterinary medicine in South Africa c. 1870-1920 / Karen Brown -- Farming salmon in a crowded wilderness : exploring the history of aquaculture science in British Columbia, Canada / Stephen Bocking -- The federation drought of 1895-1903, El Niño and society in Australia / Don Garden -- Histories of fire on South Africa's Cape peninsula / Simon Pooley -- Energy consumption in Madrid, 1561 to c. 1860 / José Ubaldo Benados Sanz [and others] -- Protecting industry and commodifying the environment : the great transformation of French pollution regulation, 1700-1840 / Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Thomas Le Roux -- Le rôle du social dans le développement de l'assainissement des villes de province françaises fin XIXe-milieu XXe siècle / Stéphanie Frioux. |
| Summary |
Today's environmental problems - climate change, loss of biodiversity, polluted air, land, and water - all have their origins to a greater or lesser extent in how we have lived, played and worked. At a time when societies are confronted Other the often dramatic consequences of past choices made in the fields of energy, technology, industry, agriculture, urbanisation and consumption, we need a history that casts more light on the ways in which unsustainable human-nature relationships came into ... |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Text in English and Franch, with English abstracts for French articles. |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- History -- Congresses.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
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History. |
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Human ecology -- History -- Congresses.
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Human ecology. |
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Human ecology -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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Human ecology -- Social aspects. |
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- History -- Congresses.
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Massard-Guilbaud, Geneviève.
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Mosley, Stephen.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Common ground. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011 9781443825498 (DLC) 2010551909 (OCoLC)730401157 |
| ISBN |
9781443826013 (electronic book) |
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1443826014 (electronic book) |
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1283141752 |
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9781283141758 |
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9781443825498 |
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1443825492 |
| Standard No. |
9786613141750 |
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