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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825687303321

Titolo

Globalization, environmental change, and social history [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Peter Boomgaard and Marjolein 't Hart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge [England], : Cambridge University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-107-22247-8

1-139-20222-7

1-280-48465-9

9786613579638

1-139-20661-3

1-139-20363-0

1-139-20503-X

1-139-20582-X

0-511-92067-9

Descrizione fisica

233 p. : ill

Collana

International review of social history, , 0020-8590 ; ; vol. 55 (2010), special issue 18

Altri autori (Persone)

BoomgaardP. <1946-2017.>

HartMarjolein 't <1955->

Soggetti

Human beings - Effect of environment on

Nature - Effect of human beings on

Social history

Globalization - Social aspects

Global environmental change - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.