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Hydropower In Authoritarian Brazil - An Environmental History Of Low-Carbon Energy, 1960sâ€“90s

de Matthew P. (Harvard University, Massachusetts) Johnson

~~40,55€~~ 36,50€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 In the later twentieth century, Brazil's right-wing military dictatorship built a spate of low carbon hydropower dams to electrify its cities and industries. The costs fell disproportionately on Indigenous communities and the environment. Johnson examines the implications across Brazil alongside global questions of politics and environmentalism.
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Vietnam'S Coal Frontier - Mining, Environment, And Empire

de Thuy Linh (Mount Saint Mary College, New York) Nguyen

~~128,43€~~ 115,59€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 In one of the first energy histories of Southeast Asia, Thuy Linh Nguyen explores the environmental, economic and social impacts of large-scale coal mining in French colonial Vietnam, arguing for the centrality of the carbon energy in shaping the local communities and environment spanning water, sea, land, and timber forests.
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Gateway To The Mediterranean - An Environmental History Of Late Ottoman Izmir

de Onur (Universitat Wien, Austria) Inal

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 This in-depth exploration of Ottoman Izmir is the first book to study a Mediterranean port city through an environmental historical lens. Introducing the 'gateway city' model, this thoughtful analysis provides an alternative way to understand the creation of an integrated economic and ecological space in Western Anatolia.
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Medieval Riverscapes - Environment And Memory In Northwest Europe, C. 300â€“1100

de Ellen F. (Ohio State University) Arnold

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 In this expansive history Ellen F. Arnold uses saints' lives and miracle stories, poetry, charters, chronicles, and historical narratives to examine how rivers were imagined and ascribed meaning c. 300â€"1100 CE. Focusing on storytelling across centuries, she explores how environmental experiences were incorporated into pre-modern cultural spaces.
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Chernobyl Children - A Transnational History Of A Nuclear Disaster

de Melanie (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Germany) Arndt

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 In the wake of the Chernobyl disaster, more than a million Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Russian children were sent abroad. This insightful study demonstrates how this exposed the ecological consequences of a nuclear catastrophe to the world, and brought the human reality of the disaster into the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
Burning Swamps - Peat And The Forgotten Margins Of Russia'S Fossil Economy

de Katja (Trinity College Dublin) Bruisch

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 This groundbreaking environmental history approaches Russia's fossil economy from its margins. Tracing the forgotten role of peat in industry and power generation, Katja Bruisch makes a compelling case for foregrounding overlooked places, people, and resources as we tell the histories of the planetary emergency.
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Cities In A Sunburnt Country - Water And The Making Of Urban Australia

de Andrea (University Of Western Australia, Perth) Gaynor, Jenny (University Of Western Australia, Perth) Gregory, Lionel (Monash University, Victoria) Frost, Margaret (University Of The Sunshine Coast, Queensland) Cook, Martin (University Of South Australia) Shanahan, Peter (University Of Queensland) Spearritt e Ruth A. (Australian National University, Canberra) Morgan

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 As cities from Cape Town to La Paz face acute water shortages, citizens need to know how urban water systems evolved to understand their vulnerabilities and alternatives. This volume sheds light on the challenges of water management in Australian cities drawing on environmental, urban and economy history.
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Tunguska - A Siberian Mystery And Its Environmental Legacy

de Andy (Northern Illinois University) Bruno

~~35,14€~~ 31,63€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 This engaging new account of the powerful Tunguska explosion of 1908 provides a fresh look at the enigmatic disaster and the generations of researchers who have tried to understand it. Taking readers inside expeditions and investigations to explore the role of mystery in environmental history, Bruno examines the legacy of the explosion.
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Stockholm And The Rise Of Global Environmental Governance - The Human Environment

de Eric (Kth Royal Institute Of Technology) Paglia e Sverker (Kth Royal Institute Of Technology) Sorlin

~~141,95€~~ 127,76€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 A unique history examining the evolution of global environmental governance through the lens of one city. It explores the impact of the seminal 1972 U.N. Conference on the Human Environment and the outsized role of Stockholm-based actors in generating knowledge and shaping institutions. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Natural Disaster At The Closing Of The Dutch Golden Age

de Adam (Creighton University, Omaha) Sundberg

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 Natural disasters repeatedly beset the Dutch Republic during the eighteenth century and coincided with environmental, political, economic, and social changes many characterized as decline. This book explores the connections between disasters and Dutch decline and uncovers lessons these eighteenth-century experiences offer for the present.
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Hydropower In Authoritarian Brazil - An Environmental History Of Low-Carbon Energy, 1960sâ€“90s

de Matthew P. (Harvard University, Massachusetts) Johnson

~~114,91€~~ 103,42€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 In the later twentieth century, Brazil's right-wing military dictatorship built a spate of low carbon hydropower dams to electrify its cities and industries. The costs fell disproportionately on Indigenous communities and the environment. Johnson examines the implications across Brazil alongside global questions of politics and environmentalism.
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Medieval Riverscapes - Environment And Memory In Northwest Europe, C. 300â€“1100

de Ellen F. (Ohio State University) Arnold

~~120,32€~~ 108,29€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 In this expansive history Ellen F. Arnold uses saints' lives and miracle stories, poetry, charters, chronicles, and historical narratives to examine how rivers were imagined and ascribed meaning c. 300â€"1100 CE. Focusing on storytelling across centuries, she explores how environmental experiences were incorporated into pre-modern cultural spaces.
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Locusts Of Power - Borders, Empire, And Environment In The Modern Middle East

de Samuel Dolbee

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 Samuel Dolbee explains political and environmental transformations in Middle East history from the late Ottoman Empire to the Second World War by tracing the movement of locusts and their relationship to people in motion and states in the Jazira, the borderlands region of today's Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
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Locusts Of Power - Borders, Empire, And Environment In The Modern Middle East

de Samuel Dolbee

30,48€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Samuel Dolbee explains political and environmental transformations in Middle East history from the late Ottoman Empire to the Second World War by tracing the movement of locusts and their relationship to people in motion and states in the Jazira, the borderlands region of today's Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
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Locusts Of Power - Borders, Empire, And Environment In The Modern Middle East

de Samuel (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee) Dolbee

31,09€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Samuel Dolbee explains political and environmental transformations in Middle East history from the late Ottoman Empire to the Second World War by tracing the movement of locusts and their relationship to people in motion and states in the Jazira, the borderlands region of today's Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
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The Catch - An Environmental History Of Medieval European Fisheries

de Richard C. (York University, Toronto) Hoffmann

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 By bringing human-nature interactions to the centre of medieval history, Richard C. Hoffmann provides a reassessment of European life from c. 500 to 1500 CE. This rich study deepens understanding of long and short-term changes in Europe's human society, aquatic organisms, and ecosystems under pressures of natural and human origin.
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The Catch - An Environmental History Of Medieval European Fisheries

de Richard C. (York University, Toronto) Hoffmann

141,95€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 By bringing human-nature interactions to the centre of medieval history, Richard C. Hoffmann provides a reassessment of European life from c. 500 to 1500 CE. This rich study deepens understanding of long and short-term changes in Europe's human society, aquatic organisms, and ecosystems under pressures of natural and human origin.
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Fueling Mexico - Energy And Environment, 1850â€“1950

de German (Georgia Institute Of Technology) Vergara

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 GermÃ¡n Vergara explains how, when, and why fossil fuels became the basis of Mexican society, comparing Mexico's fossil transition with those of other countries. The transition from a solar energy regime to one dependent on fossil fuels transformed Mexico's economy, politics, and culture - with serious environmental and social consequences.
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Locusts Of Power - Borders, Empire, And Environment In The Modern Middle East

de Samuel (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee) Dolbee

120,32€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Samuel Dolbee explains political and environmental transformations in Middle East history from the late Ottoman Empire to the Second World War by tracing the movement of locusts and their relationship to people in motion and states in the Jazira, the borderlands region of today's Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
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The Power Of The Periphery - How Norway Became An Environmental Pioneer For The World

de Peder (New York University) Anker

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 What is the source of Norway's culture of environmental harmony in our troubled world? Exploring the role of Norwegian scholar-activists of the late twentieth century, Anker shows how their portrayal of Norway as a pristine natural environment of the periphery led to it being fashioned as an idealised ecological microcosm. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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The American Steppes - The Unexpected Russian Roots Of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870sâ€“1930s

de David (University Of York) Moon

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 Between the 1870s and 1930s, there were transfers of people, plants, agricultural sciences, and techniques from Russia's steppes to the similar environment of North America's Great Plains. Drawing on archival research in the US, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan, this book explores the unexpected Russian roots of Great Plains agriculture.
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Tunguska - A Siberian Mystery And Its Environmental Legacy

de Andy Bruno

34,44€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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Tunguska - A Siberian Mystery And Its Environmental Legacy

de Andy Bruno

34,44€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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Cities In A Sunburnt Country - Water And The Making Of Urban Australia

de Andrea Gaynor, Jenny Gregory, Lionel Frost, Margaret Cook, Martin Shanahan, Peter Spearritt e Ruth A. Morgan

39,74€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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