Concepts Of Urban Environmental History
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Concepts Of Urban Environmental History
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Author : Sebastian Haumann
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2020-03-03
Concepts Of Urban Environmental History written by Sebastian Haumann and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-03 with History categories.
In history, cities and nature are often treated as two separate fields of research. »Concepts of Urban-Environmental History« aims to bridge this gap. The contributions to this volume survey major concepts and key issues which have shaped recent debates in the field. They address unresolved questions and future challenges. As a handbook, the collection offers a comprehensive overview for researchers and students, both from a historical and an interdisciplinary background.
A Companion To Global Environmental History
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Author : J. R. McNeill
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2025-04-21
A Companion To Global Environmental History written by J. R. McNeill and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-21 with History categories.
Offers multiple points of entry into the dynamic and fast-growing field of Global Environmental History to specialists and newcomers alike Companion to Global Environmental History provides the cultural, intellectual, and political context for engagement with the environment in contemporary times. Presenting carefully selected essays by both pioneers in the field and younger scholars, this timely volume explores the many contours of the relationship between human societies and the natural world on which they depend. Divided into four sections, the Companion opens by describing how the relationship between society and nature has evolved over time, followed by a series of regional and national histories that illustrate how the pieces of the global puzzle fit together. The third section examines various drivers of environmental transformations across place and time, such as technology, colonialism, industrial agriculture, and climate change. The final section surveys different types of environmental thought and action around the world, addressing the relationship between religion and the environment, environmental movements in China, the history of environmentalism in Brazil, and more. The expanded second edition of the Companion to Global Environmental History features six entirely new chapters on India, China, Africa, early modern cities, global environmental governance, and European environmentalism. The remainder of the book is extensively revised throughout, including up-to-date coverage of agriculture, industrialization, climate, and biological exchanges. An invaluable road map to the field's past developments, current controversies, and future possibilities, Companion to Global Environmental History: Covers a uniquely broad range of temporal, geographic, thematic, and contextual approaches Presents new evidence for longstanding debates and innovative applications of environmental history Offers fresh insights into environmental thought and culture, as well as environmental policy and politics around the world Brings together an international roster of environmental historians from nations including Brazil, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Spain, Australia, the Netherlands, Bangladesh, and China Contains comparative perspectives and approaches to the subject, sometimes with differing purposes and contrasting conclusions Companion to Global Environmental History, Second Edition, is an essential reference to current issues and controversies within the field. It is an excellent textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in the subject, a handy guide for newcomers to the field, as well as an invaluable resource for scholars, researchers, and environmental historians who want to expand or deepen their knowledge.
Environment And Infrastructure
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Author : Giacomo Bonan
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-04-27
Environment And Infrastructure written by Giacomo Bonan and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-27 with History categories.
The material and energy flows that characterized the metabolism of preindustrial and industrial societies were organized through complex infrastructures based on interwoven social and natural elements. Analyzing infrastructures from many methodological and thematic perspectives, the present volume adopts an extensive periodization to identify the undeniable changes caused by industrialization and the persistence of pre-existing features and dynamics. The contributions range from the late Middle Ages to the 1990s and deepen historical characteristics of urban metabolism, the study of energy systems and their transitions, and the management and control of water resources. These reveal the strategies societies and states adopted to transform and adapt their surrounding environment in a constant and challenging equilibrium of diverse interests, whose impact over time has had environmental consequences on a global scale.
Handbook Of Historical Animal Studies
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Author : Mieke Roscher
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-06-08
Handbook Of Historical Animal Studies written by Mieke Roscher and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-08 with History categories.
The handbook provides a comprehensive evaluation of approaches, topics and research areas of the rapidly developing field of Historical Animal Studies. The so called ‘animal turn’ specifically inspired new takes on writing history. This upsurge in research has led to immense amounts of new empirical studies as well as approaches to historiography, which this handbook aims to systemize.
Emerald City
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Author : Matthew W. Klingle
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-01
Emerald City written by Matthew W. Klingle and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with Science categories.
"At the foot of the snow-capped Cascade Mountains on the forested shores of Puget Sound, Seattle is set in a location of spectacular natural beauty, Boosters of the city have long capitalized on this splendor, recently likening it to the fairytale capital of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz, the Emerald City. But just as Dorothy, Toto, and their traveling companions discover a darker reality upon entering the green gates of the imaginary Emerald City. those who look more closely at Seattle's landscape will find that it reveals a history marked by environmental degradation and urban inequality. This book explores the role of nature in the development of the city of Seattle from the earliest days of its settlement to the present. Combining environmental history, urban history, and human geography, Matthew Klingle shows how attempts to reshape nature in and around Seattle have often ended not only in ecological disaster but also in social inequality. The price of Seattle's centuries of growth and progress has been high. Its wildlife, especially the famous Pacific salmon, and its poorest residents have paid the highest price. Klingle proposes a bold new way of understanding the interdependence between nature and culture, and he argues for what he calls an 'ethic of place.' Using Seattle as a compelling case study, he offers important insights for every city seeking to live in harmony with its natural landscape"--Provided by publisher.
Urbanizing Nature
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Author : Tim Soens
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-01-14
Urbanizing Nature written by Tim Soens and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-14 with History categories.
What do we mean when we say that cities have altered humanity’s interaction with nature? The more people are living in cities, the more nature is said to be "urbanizing": turned into a resource, mobilized over long distances, controlled, transformed and then striking back with a vengeance as "natural disaster". Confronting insights derived from Environmental History, Science and Technology Studies or Political Ecology, Urbanizing Nature aims to counter teleological perspectives on the birth of modern "urban nature" as a uniform and linear process, showing how new technological schemes, new actors and new definitions of nature emerged in cities from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Environment Agency And Technology In Urban Life Since C 1750
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Author : Mikkel Thelle
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-03-12
Environment Agency And Technology In Urban Life Since C 1750 written by Mikkel Thelle and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-12 with History categories.
This book explores the historical relationship between ‘technonatures’ and urban transformations in the Global North. In recent years, various interdisciplinary movements such as Urban Political Ecology, STS and New Materialism have affected urban history and generated new scholarly insights into the formation of cities and urban life based on notions of hybridity, entanglement and metabolism. While scholars have increasingly attempted to grasp the socio-natural and technical complexity of cities, studies dealing with urban transformation within urban history have, however, mostly concentrated on political actors or broader social and economic changes. Seeking to introduce the concept of technonatures to the field of urban environmental history, this book instead takes its empirical and analytical starting point in the technonatural fabric of cities. Focusing on urban rivers, dumps, railways, flood walls and housing, the chapters of the book thus examines how different entanglementsof environment, technology and agency have shaped cities and processes of urbanization in the Global North from the seventeenth century onwards. By foregrounding the transformative role of urban natures, materialities and technologies in shaping the politics of urban life and cities more broadly, the book aspires to probe the potentiality of technonatures as a conceptual and analytical strategy for urban environmental historians.
Grounding Berlin
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Author : Timothy Moss
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2025-06-10
Grounding Berlin written by Timothy Moss and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-06-10 with History categories.
Grounding Berlin explores the city’s pioneering contributions to urban technology and urban ecology in Europe and around the world over the past 150 years. Following the 1871 unification of Germany, Berlin experienced rapid industrialization and urbanization. Providing the necessary energy, water, waste removal, and land required massive interventions in the city and its surrounding region. As Berlin transformed nature in the name of urban modernism, it earned a global reputation as a technopolis. This reputation for innovation in urban technology was fanned in the Weimar Republic and revived—in very different ways—in West Berlin to cope with political isolation after 1949, to embrace a sustainability agenda in the early years of the reunified city, and to decarbonize the city today. Berlin is an instructive case study for understanding the ambitions and tensions involved in transforming environments through technology across highly diverse political regimes. More broadly, the book advances envirotech history as a productive lens for studying shifting relationships between society, nature, and technology in cities.
Prometheus Tamed
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Author : Cornel Zwierlein
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-01-11
Prometheus Tamed written by Cornel Zwierlein and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-11 with Business & Economics categories.
Over 8,200 large city fires broke out between 1000 and 1939 CE in Central Europe. Prometheus Tamed inquires into the long-term history of that fire ecology, its local and regional frequencies, its relationship to climate history. It asks for the visual and narrative representation of that threat in every-day life. Institutional forms of fire insurance emerged in the form of private joint stock companies (the British model, starting in 1681) or in the form of cameralist fire insurances (the German model, starting in 1676). They contributed to shape and change society, transforming old communities of charitable solidarity into risk communities, finally supplemented by networks of cosmopolite aid. After 1830, insurance agencies expanded tremendously quickly all over the globe: Cultural clashes of Western and native perceptions of fire risk and of what is insurance can be studied as part of a critical archaeology of world risk society and the plurality of modernities.
The Routledge Companion To Postcolonial African Historiography
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Author : Thula Simpson
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2025-05-09
The Routledge Companion To Postcolonial African Historiography written by Thula Simpson and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-09 with History categories.
The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial African Historiography explores history's fortunes in Modern Africa south of the Sahara, from the discipline's Golden Age as a handmaiden in struggles against colonialism, to difficult decades when its survival has been threatened by capricious political and economic conditions, and the uncertain present where the continent’s historians struggle to justify their value to frequently sceptical publics. In exploring the discipline’s practical role in past struggles for African emancipation the volume speaks directly to these challenging but changing circumstances. The chapters feature contributions from leading experts on historiographical traditions of different regions of the continent. They collectively demonstrate how the process of instrumentalizing the past to advance lay struggles has influenced the choices historians have made regarding sources, methodology, interpretation, audiences, and platforms. This practical application has strongly shaped the diverse forms that African historiography has assumed, as reflected in this book. The themes discussed offer a platform for inserting Africa into comparative studies of global historiographical traditions, whilst also contributing to contemporary debates on decolonization. In offering accessible insights from leading historians, this is an essential handbook for students and scholars of African history and historiography, as well as all those interested in postcolonial studies.