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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mark D. Hersey , Mark D. Hersey , Ted Steinberg , Ted SteinbergPublisher: The University of Alabama Press Imprint: The University of Alabama Press Weight: 0.660kg ISBN: 9780817320010ISBN 10: 0817320016 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 30 December 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: A Good Set of Walking Shoes by Mark D. Hersey Part I. Facing Limits Chapter 1. Subversive Subjects: Donald Worster and the Radical Origins of Environmental History by Ted Steinberg Chapter 2. Can Capitalism Ever Be Green? by Adam Rome Chapter 3. Seeing Like a God: Environmentalism in the Anthropocene by Frank Zelko Chapter 4. The Locked Door: Thomas Midgley Jr., Chlorofluorocarbons, and the Unintended Consequences of Technology by Kevin C. Armitage Chapter 5. Malibu, California: Edenic Illusions and Natural Disasters by Christof Mauch Chapter 6. Energizing Environmental History by Brian C. Black Part II. World without Borders Chapter 7. The Force of Fiber: Reconnecting the Philippines with Latin America and the American West via Transnational Environmental History by Sterling Evans Chapter 8. Hunting and Wilderness in the Creation of National Identities by Mikko Saikku Chapter 9. Why We Need Comparative History: The Case of China and the United States by Shen Hou Chapter 10. The World in a Tin Can: Migrants in Environmental History by Marco Armiero Chapter 11. Down in the Sky: The Promise of Aerial Environmental History by Robert Wellman Campbell Chapter 12. Rivers of Dust: An Environmental Historian Appraises the American Legal System by Karl Boyd Brooks Part III. Doing Environmental History Chapter 13. Whole Earth without Borders: Earth Photographs, Space Data, and the Importance of Visual Culture within Environmental History by Neil M. Maher Chapter 14. Beyond Stories: Geospatial Influences on the Practice of Environmental History by Sara M. Gregg Chapter 15. Low-Hanging Fruit: Science and Environmental History by Edmund Russell Chapter 16. The Watershed of War: Environmental History and the “Big Civil War” by Brian Allen Drake Chapter 17. War from the Ground Up: Integrating Military and Environmental Histories by Lisa M. Brady Afterword: The Distinctiveness of Environmental History by Daniel T. Rodgers Bibliography About the Contributors IndexReviewsThe essays in A Field on Fire examine new trends in environmental history and will interest environmental historians, geographers, and historians of science and technology. --Lisa Mighetto, author of Wild Animals and American Environmental Ethics and executive director of the American Society for Environmental History A fun, thought-provoking read penned by some of the most talented environmental historians in the field. --Bartow J. Elmore, author of Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism Every so often, practitioners unfold their maps to access the whereabouts and forward movement of their field of study. The contributors to this outstanding collection point to smart new directions for environmental history. Doing so, while also writing with verve and insight, they pay tribute to the field's most distinguished and agile pathfinder, Donald Worster. --Jack Davis, author of Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for History A fun, thought-provoking read penned by some of the most talented environmental historians in the field. --Bartow J. Elmore, author of Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism The essays in A Field on Fire examine new trends in environmental history and will interest environmental historians, geographers, and historians of science and technology. --Lisa Mighetto, author of Wild Animals and American Environmental Ethics and executive director of the American Society for Environmental History Author InformationMark D. Hersey is associate professor of history at Mississippi State University where he directs the Center for the History of Agriculture, Science, and the Environment of the South. He is author of My Work Is That of Conservation: An Environmental Biography of George Washington Carver. Ted Steinberg is Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History and professor of law at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York; American Green: The Obsessive Quest for a Perfect Lawn; Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History; Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America; and Nature Incorporated; Industrialization and the Waters of New England. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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