| Description |
1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
International review of social history,
0020-8590 ;
vol. 55 (2010), special issue 18
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International review of social history. Special issue ; 18.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Globalization, environmental change, and social history : an introduction / Peter Boomgaard and Marjolein 't Hart -- El Dorado of forestry : the eucalyptus in India, South Africa, and Thailand, 1850-2000 / Brett M. Bennett -- Mid-Atlantic islands : a theatre of early modern ecocide? / Stefan Halikowski Smith -- Environmental change and globalization in seventeenth-century France : Dutch traders and the draining of French wetlands (Arles, Petit Poitou) / Raphael Morera -- Colonial famine plot : slavery, free trade, and empire in the French Atlantic, 1763-1791 / Joseph Horan -- Environmental changes, the emergence of a fuel market, and the working conditions of salt makers in Bengal, c.1780-1845 / Sayako Kanda -- Industrial life in a limiting landscape : an environmental interpretation of Stalinist Social conditions in the far north / Andy Bruno -- "Pumpkins just got in there": gender and generational conflict and "improved" agriculture in colonial Zimbabwe / Guy Thompson -- Hydro-businesses : national and global demands on the São Francisco River Basin environment of Brazil / Lucigleide Nery Nascimento and Mimi Larsen Becker. |
| Summary |
Social and environmental historians assess the extent to which transnational agents changed socioecological space as a consequence of globalization. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on. |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
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Social history.
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Social history. |
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Globalization -- Social aspects.
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Globalization -- Social aspects. |
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Global environmental change -- Social aspects.
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Global environmental change -- Social aspects. |
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Global environmental change. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Boomgaard, P., 1946-2017.
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Hart, Marjolein 't, 1955-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Globalization, environmental change, and social history. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9781107401518 (DLC) 2011281380 (OCoLC)700403312 |
| ISBN |
9781139206617 (electronic book) |
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1139206613 (electronic book) |
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9781139203630 (electronic book) |
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1139203630 (electronic book) |
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9780511920677 (electronic book) |
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0511920679 (electronic book) |
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9781139205030 |
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113920503X |
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9781107401518 |
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1107401518 |
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