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Title:

Globalization, environmental change, and social history / edited by Peter Boomgaard and Marjolein 't Hart.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

233 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Human beings--Effect of environment on.
Nature--Effect of human beings on.
Social history.
Globalization--Social aspects.
Global environmental change--Social aspects.

Other Authors:

Boomgaard, P., 1946-
Hart, Marjolein C. 't.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Hydro-businesses : national and global demands on the S©Đo Francisco River Basin environment of Brazil / Lucigleide Nery Nascimento and Mimi Larsen Becker. 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 on the S©Đo Francisco River Basin environment of Brazil / Lucigleide Nery Nascimento and Mimi Larsen Becker.

Series:

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

ISBN:

1107401518 (pbk)
9781107401518 (pbk)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)700403312

LCCN:

2011281380

Locations:

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