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Cattle Colonialism - An Environmental History Of The Conquest Of California And Hawai'I

by John Ryan Fischer

26,49€ + 10% CARD

 Environmental historians have too often overlooked California and Hawai'i, despite the roles the regions played in the colonial ranching frontiers of the Pacific World. In Cattle Colonialism, John Ryan Fischer significantly enlarges the scope of the American West by examining the trans-Pacific transformations these animals wrought on local landscapes and native economies.
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End Of A Global Pox - America And The Eradication Of Smallpox In The Cold War Era

by Bob H. Reinhardt

26,49€ + 10% CARD

 In 1965, the United States joined an international effort to eradicate smallpox, and after fifteen years of steady progress, the effort succeeded. Bob H. Reinhardt demonstrates that the fight against smallpox drew American liberals into new and complex relationships in the global Cold War, as he narrates the history of the only cooperative international effort to successfully eliminate a disease.
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Making The Green Revolution - Agriculture And Conflict In Colombia

by Timothy W. Lorek

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 Utilizing archives in Colombia, Puerto Rico, and the United States, Timothy Lorek reveals how Colombians contributed to the rise of a global Green Revolution and how that international process in turn intersected with a complex and long-running rural conflict in Colombia.
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Oil Palm - A Global History

by Jonathan E. Robins

33,11€ + 10% CARD

 Oil palms are ubiquitous - grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from lipstick and soap to margarine and cookies. And as Jonathan Robins shows, sweeping social transformations carried the plant around the planet.
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Defending The Arctic Refuge - A Photographer, An Indigenous Nation, And A Fight For Environmental Justice

by Finis Dunaway

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 In a time of escalating climate change, species extinction, and threats to Indigenous lands and cultures, this book demonstrates the power of collective action to defend human rights and ecosystems and the ability of diverse alliances to take on multinational corporations and change the world.
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Environments Of Empire - Networks And Agents Of Ecological Change

30,46€ + 10% CARD

 Advances an historical analysis that is comparative, transnational, and interdisciplinary to understand the causes, consequences, and networks of biological exchange and ecological change resulting from imperialism.
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Landscape Of Migration - Mobility And Environmental Change On Bolivia''S Tropical Frontier, 1952 To The Present

by Ben Nobbs-Thiessen

39,74€ + 10% CARD

 In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the ""March to the East"". Ben Nobbs-Thiessen details the multifaceted results of this migration on the environment of the South American interior.
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Organic Resistance - The Struggle Over Industrial Farming In Postwar France

by Venus Bivar

30,46€ + 10% CARD

 France is often held up as a bastion of gastronomic refinement and as a model of artisanal agriculture and husbandry. But French farming is not at all what it seems. Countering the standard stories of gastronomy, tourism, and leisure associated with the French countryside, Venus Bivar portrays French farmers as hard-nosed businessmen preoccupied with global trade and mass production. With a focus on both the rise of big agriculture and the organic movement, Bivar examines the tumult of postwar rural France, a place fiercely engaged with crucial national and global developments. Delving into the intersecting narratives of economic modernization, the birth of organic farming, the development of a strong agricultural protest movement, and the rise of environmentalism, Bivar reveals a movement as preoccupied with maintaining the purity of the French race as of French food. What emerges is a story of how French farming conquered the world, bringing with it a set of ideas about place and purity with a darker origin story than we might have guessed.
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All Things Harmless, Useful, And Ornamental - Environmental Transformation Through Species Acclimatization, From Colonial Australia To The World

by Pete Minard

34,44€ + 10% CARD

 Colonization depended on moving people, plants, and animals from place to place, and in centuries past, scientists, landowners, and philanthropists formed acclimatization societies to study local species and conditions, form networks of supporters, and exchange organisms across the globe. Pete Minard tells the story of this movement.
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Rubber And The Making Of Vietnam - An Ecological History, 1897-1975

by Michitake Aso

31,79€ + 10% CARD

 In this ground breaking study, Michitake Aso narrates how rubber plantations came to dominate the material and symbolic landscape of Vietnam and its neighbours, structuring the region's environment of conflict and violence. Aso demonstrates how postcolonial socialist visions of agriculture and medicine were informed by their colonial and capitalist predecessors in important ways.
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American Tropics - The Caribbean Roots Of Biodiversity Science

by Megan Raby

21,19€ + 10% CARD

 Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth century, Megan Raby details how ecologists took advantage of growing U.S. landholdings in the circum-Caribbean by establishing permanent field stations for long-term, basic tropical research. From these outposts of U.S. science, a growing community of American "tropical biologists" developed both the key scientific concepts and the values embedded in the modern discourse of biodiversity. Considering U.S. biological fieldwork from the era of the Spanish-American War through the anticolonial movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this study combines the history of science, environmental history, and the history of U.S.-Caribbean and Latin American relations. In doing so, Raby sheds new light on the origins of contemporary scientific and environmentalist thought and brings to the forefront a surprisingly neglected history of twentieth-century U.S. science and empire.
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Red Coats And Wild Birds - How Military Ornithologists And Migrant Birds Shaped Empire

by Kirsten A. Greer

30,46€ + 10% CARD

 During the nineteenth century, Britain maintained a complex network of garrisons to manage its global empire. During their tours abroad, many British officers engaged in formal and informal scientific research. In this ambitious history of ornithology and empire, Kirsten A. Greer tracks British officers as they moved around the world.
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Herds Shot Round The World - Native Breeds And The British Empire, 1800-1900

by Rebecca J. H. Woods

26,49€ + 10% CARD

 Exploring the environmental and economic ramifications of imperial expansion on colonial environments and production practices, Rebecca J. H. Woods traces how global physiological and ecological diversity eroded under the technological, economic, and cultural system that grew up around the production of livestock by the British Empire.
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To Master The Boundless Sea - The U.S. Navy, The Marine Environment, And The Cartography Of Empire

by Jason W. Smith

26,49€ + 10% CARD

 In vividly told sketches of exploration, naval officers, war, and, most significantly, the ocean environment, Jason Smith draws together insights from environmental, maritime, military, and naval history, and the history of science and cartography, placing the US Navy's scientific efforts within a broader cultural context.
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State Of Conservation - Rural America And The Conservation-Industrial Complex Since 1920

by Joshua Nygren

~~165,63€~~ 149,07€ 10% OFF

 In the twentieth century, natural resource conservation emerged as a vital force in US politics, laying the groundwork for present-day sustainability. Merging environmental, agricultural, and political history, Joshua Nygren examines the political economy and ecology of agricultural conservation through the lens of the "conservation-industrial complex." This evolving public-private network—which united the US Department of Agriculture, Congress, local and national organizations, and the agricultural industry—guided soil and water conservation in rural America for much of the century. Contrary to the classic tales of US environmental politics and the rise and fall of the New Deal Order, this book emphasizes continuity. Nygren demonstrates how the conservation policies, programs, and partnerships of the 1930s and 1940s persisted through the age of environmentalism, and how their defining traits anticipated those typically associated with late twentieth-century political culture. The conservation-industrial complex promoted a development-oriented brand of conservation that aided the rise of large-scale, capital-intensive agriculture which continues today. It also reshaped the physical and political landscapes of the country, leading to impressive conservation victories and spectacular failures by privileging some environments, degrading others, and intensifying farm depopulation. In the name of environmental protection, agricultural conservation made rural America less equal.
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State Of Conservation - Rural America And The Conservation-Industrial Complex Since 1920

by Joshua Nygren

~~165,63€~~ 149,07€ 10% OFF

 In the twentieth century, natural resource conservation emerged as a vital force in US politics, laying the groundwork for present-day sustainability. Merging environmental, agricultural, and political history, Joshua Nygren examines the political economy and ecology of agricultural conservation through the lens of the "conservation-industrial complex." This evolving public-private network—which united the US Department of Agriculture, Congress, local and national organizations, and the agricultural industry—guided soil and water conservation in rural America for much of the century. Contrary to the classic tales of US environmental politics and the rise and fall of the New Deal Order, this book emphasizes continuity. Nygren demonstrates how the conservation policies, programs, and partnerships of the 1930s and 1940s persisted through the age of environmentalism, and how their defining traits anticipated those typically associated with late twentieth-century political culture. The conservation-industrial complex promoted a development-oriented brand of conservation that aided the rise of large-scale, capital-intensive agriculture which continues today. It also reshaped the physical and political landscapes of the country, leading to impressive conservation victories and spectacular failures by privileging some environments, degrading others, and intensifying farm depopulation. In the name of environmental protection, agricultural conservation made rural America less equal.
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Creatures Of Fashion - Animals, Global Markets, And The Transformation Of Patagonia

by John Soluri

~~29,14€~~ 26,23€ 10% OFF

 Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalization. Creatures of Fashion upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animals was central to the regionâ€™s transformation from Indigenous lands into the national territories of Argentina and Chile.
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Creatures Of Fashion - Animals, Global Markets, And The Transformation Of Patagonia

by John Soluri

~~28,38€~~ 25,54€ 10% OFF

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 Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalization. Creatures of Fashion upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animals was central to the regionâ€™s transformation from Indigenous lands into the national territories of Argentina and Chile.
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Captivity'S Collections - Science, Natural History, And The British Transatlantic Slave Trade

by Kathleen S. Murphy

30,46€ + 10% CARD

 Argues that the eighteenth century's explosion of new natural knowledge was deeply connected to the circulation of individuals, objects, and ideas through the networks of the British transatlantic slave trade.
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Making The Green Revolution - Agriculture And Conflict In Colombia

by Timothy W. Lorek

165,63€ + 10% CARD

 Utilizing archives in Colombia, Puerto Rico, and the United States, Timothy Lorek reveals how Colombians contributed to the rise of a global Green Revolution and how that international process in turn intersected with a complex and long-running rural conflict in Colombia.
ENGLISH

Oil Palm - A Global History

by Jonathan E. Robins

159,00€ + 10% CARD

 Oil palms are ubiquitous - grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from lipstick and soap to margarine and cookies. And as Jonathan Robins shows, sweeping social transformations carried the plant around the planet.
ENGLISH

Defending The Arctic Refuge - A Photographer, An Indigenous Nation, And A Fight For Environmental Justice

by Finis Dunaway

159,00€ + 10% CARD

 In a time of escalating climate change, species extinction, and threats to Indigenous lands and cultures, this book demonstrates the power of collective action to defend human rights and ecosystems and the ability of diverse alliances to take on multinational corporations and change the world.
ENGLISH

Environments Of Empire - Networks And Agents Of Ecological Change

152,38€ + 10% CARD

 Advances an historical analysis that is comparative, transnational, and interdisciplinary to understand the causes, consequences, and networks of biological exchange and ecological change resulting from imperialism.
ENGLISH

Landscape Of Migration - Mobility And Environmental Change On Bolivia''S Tropical Frontier, 1952 To The Present

by Ben Nobbs-Thiessen

152,38€ + 10% CARD

 In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the ""March to the East"". Ben Nobbs-Thiessen details the multifaceted results of this migration on the environment of the South American interior.
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