Globalization, Environmental Change, and Social History

ISBN: 9781107401518 出版年：2011 页码：246 Peter Boomgaard Marjolein 't Hart Cambridge University Press

Introduction Peter Boomgaard and Marjolein 't Hart 1. The El Dorado of forestry: the local and global histories of the eucalyptus in India, South Africa and Thailand, 1850-2000 Brett Bennett 2. The mid-Atlantic islands: a theatre of early modern ecocide? Stefan Halikowski-Smith 3. Environmental change and globalization in seventeenth-century France: Dutch traders and the draining of French wetlands (Arles, Petit Poitou) Raphael Morera 4. The colonial famine plot: slavery, war and empire in the French Atlantic, 1763-91 Joseph Horan 5. Environmental changes, the emergence of a fuel market, and the working conditions of salt makers in Bengal, c.1780-1845 Sayako Kanda 6. The 'special settlers' in the Khibiny mountains: an environmental interpretation of their experience during Stalinist industrialization Andy Bruno 7. 'Pumpkins just got in there': gender and generational conflict and 'improved' agriculture in colonial Zimbabwe Guy Thompson 8. Hydro-businesses: national and global demands influencing meanings and uses of the Sao Francisco river basin environment of Brazil Lucigleide Nery Nascimento and Mimi Larsen Becker.