Globalization, environmental change, and social history / edited by Peter Boomgaard and Marjolein 't Hart.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Boomgaard, P., 1946-2017
Hart, Marjolein 't, 1955-
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Series:International review of social history. Special issue ; 18.
Subjects:
Human beings > Effect of environment on.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Social history.
Globalization > Social aspects.
Global environmental change > Social aspects.
Physical Description:233 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Globalization, environmental change, and social history : an introduction / Peter Boomgaard and Marjolein 't Hart
  • The El Dorado of forestry : the eucalyptus in India, South Africa, and Thailand, 1850-2000 / Brett M. Bennett
  • The 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
  • The 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 influencing meanings and uses of the São Francisco River Basin environment of Brazil / Lucigleide Nery Nascimento and Mimi Larsen Becker.