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Orchards Of Privilege - Water, Oranges, And Race In The Gamtoos Valley Of South Africa, 1700â€“2023

de Robert Ross

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 This study traces its transformation from an eighteenth-century natural landscape of thick bush into an agricultural zone now threatened by climate change. In view of these historical transformations, the Gamtoos River floodplain exemplifies the complex interplay between human ambition, environmental challenges, and sociopolitical forces.
Orchards Of Privilege - Water, Oranges, And Race In The Gamtoos Valley Of South Africa, 1700â€“2023

de Robert Ross

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 From the mid-eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century, the Gamtoos floodplain in South Africa has shifted from thick bush into a thriving agricultural system based on citrus orchards and market gardening. This book traces that transformation and the control of water that made it possible.
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Toxic Timescapes - Examining Toxicity Across Time And Space

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 From radioactive waste to coral reefs, this environmental humanities volume reconsiders contamination and pollution as toxic timescapes: dynamic events with both temporal and spatial dimensions.
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Toxic Timescapes - Examining Toxicity Across Time And Space

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 From radioactive waste to coral reefs, this environmental humanities volume reconsiders contamination and pollution as toxic timescapes: dynamic events with both temporal and spatial dimensions.
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Environment, Power, And Justice - Southern African Histories

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 With appreciation for both regional and chronological variation, this volumeâ€™s contributors track the global concept of environmental justice to analyze its influence in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho and to expand popular understandings of social-environmental harm.
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Coffee Is Not Forever - A Global History Of The Coffee Leaf Rust

de Stuart Mccook

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 Coffee Is Not Forever assesses the global spread of a dire existential threatâ€"coffee rustâ€"to a crop consumers take for granted. In departing from commodity historiesâ€™ usual emphasis on the social and economic, and instead putting ecology at the forefront, Stuart McCook offers the first truly global environmental history of coffee.
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Coffee Is Not Forever - A Global History Of The Coffee Leaf Rust

de Stuart Mccook

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 Coffee Is Not Forever assesses the global spread of a dire existential threatâ€"coffee rustâ€"to a crop consumers take for granted. In departing from commodity historiesâ€™ usual emphasis on the social and economic, and instead putting ecology at the forefront, Stuart McCook offers the first truly global environmental history of coffee.
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The Green Archipelago - Forestry In Preindustrial Japan

de Conrad Totman

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 In the OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS SERIES IN ECOLOGY AND HISTORY, an examination of the causes, forms and effects of forest use and management in Japan since 1600.
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Inventing Pollution - Coal, Smoke, And Culture In Britain Since 1800

de Peter Thorsheim

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 Inventing Pollution examines new understandings of pollution, centered not on organic decay but on coal combustion, that emerged in the late 19th century in Britain. This change, Thorsheim argues, gave birth to the smoke-abatement movement and to new ways of thinking about the relationships among humanity, technology, and the environment.
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Inventing Pollution - Coal, Smoke, And Culture In Britain Since 1800

de Peter Thorsheim

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 Inventing Pollution examines new understandings of pollution, centered not on organic decay but on coal combustion, that emerged in the late 19th century in Britain. This change, Thorsheim argues, gave birth to the smoke-abatement movement and to new ways of thinking about the relationships among humanity, technology, and the environment.
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How Green Were The Nazis? - Nature, Environment, And Nation In The Third Reich

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 The Nazis created nature preserves, contemplated sustainable forestry, curbed air pollution, and designed the autobahn highway network as a way of bringing Germans closer to nature. This book examines the ideology and practice of environmental protection in Nazi Germany.
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The Historical Ecology Of Malaria In Ethiopia - Deposing The Spirits

de James C. Mccann

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 Malaria is an infectious disease like no other: it is a dynamic force of nature and Africaâ€™s most deadly and debilitating malady. James C. McCann tells the story of malaria in human, narrative terms and explains the history and ecology of the disease through the science of landscape change. All malaria is local.
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Triumph Of The Expert - Agrarian Doctrines Of Development And The Legacies Of British Colonialism

de Joseph Morgan Hodge

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 Presents the history of British colonial doctrine and its contribution to the emergence of rural development and environmental policies. This work examines the way that development as a framework of ideas and institutional practices emerged out of the strategic engagement between science and the state at the climax of the British Empire.
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Indigenous Knowledge And The Environment In Africa And North America

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 Offers comparative and transnational insights that disturb romantic views of unchanging indigenous knowledges in harmony with the environment.
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Environmental Imaginaries Of The Middle East And North Africa

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 The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history. Images of endless golden dunes, camel caravans, isolated desert oases, and rivers lined with palm trees have often framed written and visual representations of the region.
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The Game Of Conservation - International Treaties To Protect The World’S Migratory Animals

de Mark Cioc

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 Presents an examination of nature protection around the world. Drawing on a variety of primary and secondary sources, this book shows that a handful of treaties - all designed to protect the world's most commercially important migratory species - have largely shaped the contours of global nature conservation over the past century.
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Mad Dogs And Meerkats - A History Of Resurgent Rabies In Southern Africa

de Karen Brown e Karen Brown

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 This highly readable book is the first study of rabies in Africa, tracing its history in South Africa and neighboring states from 1800 to the present and showing how environmental and economic changes brought about by European colonialism and global trade have had long-term effects.
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Healing The Herds - Disease, Livestock Economies, And The Globalization Of Veterinary Medicine

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 Offers a comparative approach to the complex interrelationships of microbes, markets, and medicine in the global economy. This book illustrates how the rapid growth of the international trade in animals through the nineteenth century engendered the spread of infectious diseases.
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Nature And History In Modern Italy

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 Is Italy il bel paese - where tourists spend their vacations looking for art, history, and scenery? Or is it a land whose beauty has been cursed by humanity's greed and nature's cruelty? This book presents the interplay of Italy's human history and its dramatic natural diversity is a subject appeal to a wide range of readers.
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Wielding The Ax - State Forestry And Social Conflict In Tanzania, 1820â€“2000

de Thaddeus Sunseri

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 Shows the origins, nature, and demise of colonial rule in East Africa and of the first fitful decades of independence. This title provides a story of shifting constellations of power over forests, beginning with African chiefs and forest spirits - both known as 'ax-wielders' - and ending with international conservation experts.
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Environment, Power, And Justice - Southern African Histories

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 With appreciation for both regional and chronological variation, this volumeâ€™s contributors track the global concept of environmental justice to analyze its influence in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho and to expand popular understandings of social-environmental harm.
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Women And Slavery, Volume Two - The Modern Atlantic

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 The literature on women enslaved around the world has grown rapidly in the last ten years, evidencing strong interest in the subject across a range of academic disciplines.
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Imperial Gullies - Soil Erosion And Conservation In Lesotho

de Kate B. Showers

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 Once the grain basket for South Africa, much of Lesotho has become a scarred and treeless wasteland. The nation's gullying has concerned environmentalists and conservationists for more than half a century. This book documents the truth behind this devastation.
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Environment, Power, And Justice - Southern African Histories

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 With appreciation for both regional and chronological variation, this volumeâ€™s contributors track the global concept of environmental justice to analyze its influence in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho and to expand popular understandings of social-environmental harm.
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