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Title:

Natures past : the environment and human history / Paolo Squatriti, editor.

Publisher:

University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

viii, 358 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Human ecology--History.
Environmental degradation--History.
Conservation of natural resources--History.
Environmental policy--History.

Other Authors:

Squatriti, Paolo, 1963-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-356).

Contents:

Introduction: Natures past and present environmental histories / Paolo Squatriti -- Distribution fights, coordination games, and lobster management / James Acheson -- Fruit trees and family trees in an anthropogenic forest : ethics of access, property zones, and environmental change in Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso -- Histories of colonialism and forestry in India / K. Sivaramakrishnan -- Revolutionary mosquitoes of the Atlantic world : malaria and independence in the United States of America / J.R. McNeill -- Sustainable development on China's frontier / Peter C. Perdue -- Naming the stranger : maize's journey to Africa / James C. McCann -- Two landscapes, two stories : Anglo-Saxon England and the United States / Nicholas Howe -- In search of natural identity : alpine landscape and the reconstruction of the Swiss nation / Oliver Zimmer -- Lawn-o-rama : the commodification of landscape in postwar America / Ted Steinberg -- Footprint metaphor and metabolic realities : environmental impacts of medieval European cities / Richard C. Hoffmann.

Series:

Comparative studies in society and history book series

ISBN:

9780472069606 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0472069608 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0472099604 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780472099603 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)70265547

LCCN:

2006021900

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)