A Field on Fire: The Future of Environmental History

ISBN-13: 9780817320010 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 328 str.

Mark D. Hersey; Mark D. Hersey; Ted Steinberg

Opis

A frank and engaging exploration of the burgeoning academic field of environmental history

Spis treści

• List of Illustrations
• Introduction: A Good Set of Walking Shoes by Mark D. Hersey
• Part I. Facing Limits
• Chapter 1. Subversive Subjects: Donald Worster and the Radical Origins of Environmental History by Ted Steinberg
• Chapter 2. Can Capitalism Ever Be Green? by Adam Rome
• Chapter 3. Seeing Like a God: Environmentalism in the Anthropocene by Frank Zelko
• Chapter 4. The Locked Door: Thomas Midgley Jr., Chlorofluorocarbons, and the Unintended Consequences of Technology by Kevin C. Armitage
• Chapter 5. Malibu, California: Edenic Illusions and Natural Disasters by Christof Mauch
• Chapter 6. Energizing Environmental History by Brian C. Black
• Part II. World without Borders
• Chapter 7. The Force of Fiber: Reconnecting the Philippines with Latin America and the American West via Transnational Environmental History by Sterling Evans
• Chapter 8. Hunting and Wilderness in the Creation of National Identities by Mikko Saikku
• Chapter 9. Why We Need Comparative History: The Case of China and the United States by Shen Hou
• Chapter 10. The World in a Tin Can: Migrants in Environmental History by Marco Armiero
• Chapter 11. Down in the Sky: The Promise of Aerial Environmental History by Robert Wellman Campbell
• Chapter 12. Rivers of Dust: An Environmental Historian Appraises the American Legal System by Karl Boyd Brooks
• Part III. Doing Environmental History
• Chapter 13. Whole Earth without Borders: Earth Photographs, Space Data, and the Importance of Visual Culture within Environmental History by Neil M. Maher
• Chapter 14. Beyond Stories: Geospatial Influences on the Practice of Environmental History by Sara M. Gregg
• Chapter 15. Low-Hanging Fruit: Science and Environmental History by Edmund Russell
• Chapter 16. The Watershed of War: Environmental History and the “Big Civil War” by Brian Allen Drake
• Chapter 17. War from the Ground Up: Integrating Military and Environmental Histories by Lisa M. Brady
• Afterword: The Distinctiveness of Environmental History by Daniel T. Rodgers
• Bibliography
• About the Contributors
• Index