Fire management in the American West [[electronic resource] ] : forest politics and the rise of megafires / / Mark Hudson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781871003321
• Autore: Hudson Mark <1971 June 27->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boulder, Colo., : University Press of Colorado, c2011
• ISBN: 1-4571-1680-4; 1-60732-089-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (229 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.37/9
• Soggetti: Wildfires - West (U.S.) - Prevention and control - History; Forests and forestry - Fire management - West (U.S.) - History; Forests and forestry - Fire management - Political aspects - West (U.S.) - History; Forest products industry - West (U.S.) - History; Forest products industry - Environmental aspects - West (U.S.) - History; West (U.S.) Environmental conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Social Dimensions of Wildfire -- Forester-Kings? Fire Suppression and the State -- Managing in the Wake of the Ax -- Out of the Frying Pan : Catastrophic Fire as a "Crisis of Crisis Management" -- The Weight of Past Weakness : Prospects for Ecological Modernization in Fire Management -- Conclusion: The Chronic Parolee.
• Sommario/riassunto: Most journalists and academics attribute the rise of wildfires in the western United States to the USDA Forest Service's successful fire-elimination policies of the twentieth century. However, in Fire Management in the American West, Mark Hudson argues that although a century of suppression did indeed increase the hazard of wildfire, the responsibility does not lie with the USFS alone. The roots are found in the Forest Service's relationships with other, more powerful elements of society--the timber industry in particular. Drawing on correspondence both between and within the Forest Service a

Rescuing history from the nation : questioning narratives of modern China / / Prasenjit Duara

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910970974803321
• Autore: Duara Prasenjit
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1996, c1995
• ISBN: 9786612426315; 9781282426313; 1282426311; 9780226167237; 0226167232
• Edizione: [Pbk. ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Disciplina: 951.0072; 951/.072
• Soggetti: Civilization, Oriental; China History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-257) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part One -- Part Two -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Prasenjit Duara offers the first systematic account of the relationship between the nation-state, nationalism, and the concept of linear history. Focusing primarily on China and including discussion of India, Duara argues that many historians of postcolonial nation-states have adopted a linear, evolutionary history of the Enlightenment/colonial model. As a result, they have written repressive, exclusionary, and incomplete accounts. The backlash against such histories has resulted in a tendency to view the past as largely constructed, imagined, or invented. In this book, Duara offers a way out of the impasse between constructionism and the evolving nation; he redefines history as a series of multiple, often conflicting narratives produced simultaneously at national, local, and transnational levels. In a series of closely linked case studies, he considers such examples as the very different histories produced by Chinese nationalist reformers and partisans of popular religions, the conflicting narratives of statist nationalists and of ; advocates of federalism in early twentieth-century China. He demonstrates the necessity of incorporating contestation, appropriation, repression, and the return of the repressed subject into any account of the past that will be meaningful to the present. Duara demonstrates how to write histories that resist being pressed into the service of the national subject in its progress-or stalled progress-toward modernity.