| Description |
316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Series |
eBook Academic Collection - North America
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| 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. |
| Access |
License restrictions may limit access. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- History.
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Environmental sciences -- History.
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Environmentalism.
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| Added Author |
Hersey, Mark D.
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Steinberg, Theodore, 1961-
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eBook Academic Collection - North America
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| ISBN |
9780817320010 (cloth) |
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9780817392086 (ebook) |
| OCLC # |
sseb_ssj0002097520 |
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