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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Making the Environment Historical — An Introduction
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The Rise of the Environmental
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History and the Environmental Sciences
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Making Space: Environments and Their Contexts
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‘Things Human’
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Reviews
'Nature's End is both an adept explanation of the ways in which historians can make the environment a central theme, and a treasure trove packed with gems of essays by leading scholars who show how it is done. This book is a state-of-the-art guide to contemporary questions in global environmental history.'
- J. Donald Hughes, University of Denver, USA
'This volume makes a contribution not only to the history of the environment, but also to its historiography and to the history of thought about the environment It contributes to bridge-building between disciplines and also to a dialogue with other kinds of historian, whether they work on politics or culture.'
- Peter Burke, University of Cambridge, UK
'Leading scholars of environmental history clarify the discipline's epistemological context
and offer compelling case studies. Nature's End is indispensable reading for all who seek to meld the various communities of knowledge of our world.'
- Carole Crumley, University of North Carolina, USA
'Nature's End deserves a wide audience. Environmental historians of all sorts will find it useful, as few such collections can boast such a rich and diverse array of contributions, ranging widely in geographical and chronological scope and presenting several methodological and conceptual approaches.' - William Cavert, H-Environment
'...thought-provoking...Hopefully, this volume will guide environmental and cultural historians towards fruitful interaction.' - European History Quarterly
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
SVERKER SÖRLIN is Professor of Environmental History in the Division of History of Science and Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Among his books are Sustainability – the Challenge (1998) and Narrating the Arctic (2002, with M.T.Bravo). He won the August [for Strindberg] Prize for his two volume History of European Ideas 1492-1918 (2004).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nature's End
Book Subtitle: History and the Environment
Editors: Sverker Sörlin, Paul Warde
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245099
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-20346-4Published: 23 July 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-20347-1Published: 23 July 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-24509-9Published: 23 July 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 368
Topics: History of Science, Social History, Cultural History, Environmental Science and Engineering, Environment, general, Historiography and Method