Nature’s End: History and the Environment

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Making the Environment Historical — An Introduction....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Imperialism, Intellectual Networks, and Environmental Change; Unearthing the Origins and Evolution of Global Environmental History....Pages 23-49
Separation, Proprietorship and Community in the History of Conservation....Pages 50-69
The Environmental History of Pre-industrial Agriculture in Europe....Pages 70-92
The Global Warming That Did Not Happen: Historicizing Glaciology and Climate Change....Pages 93-114
Genealogies of the Ecological Moment: Planning, Complexity and the Emergence of ‘the Environment’ as Politics in West Germany, 1949–1982....Pages 115-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
The Environmental History of Mountain Regions....Pages 141-161
Interdisciplinary Conversations: The Collective Model....Pages 162-187
New Science for Sustainability in an Ancient Land....Pages 188-211
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
54, 40 or Fight: Writing Within and Across Borders in North American Environmental History....Pages 215-246
Modernity and the Politics of Waste in Britain....Pages 247-272
Why Intensify? The Outline of a Theory of the Institutional Causes Driving Long-Term Changes in Chinese Farming and the Consequent Modifications to the Environment....Pages 273-303
Reconsidering Climate and Causality: Case Studies from Colonial Mexico....Pages 304-328
Front Matter....Pages 329-329
Destinies and Decisions: Taking the Life-World Seriously in Environmental History....Pages 331-348
Afterword....Pages 349-357
Back Matter....Pages 358-368