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  • Methods in world history : a critical approach

    by Rodney Edvinsson, Arne Jarrick, J. R. McNeill, Eva Myrdal, Janken Myrdal, Maria Wallenberg, Rikard Warlenius, Mats Widgren ...
    Intresset för världshistoria är större än på länge - både bland den läsande allmänheten och bland forskare. Globaliseringen har bidragit till att historiker kommit ut ur den fixering vid det nationella som kännetecknat deras forskning ända sedan 1800-talet. Men med den nya globala arenan för forskning följer också nya metodproblem. Det är hög tid att de världshistoriskt orienterade forskarna tar ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Landesque Capital

    The Historical Ecology of Enduring Landscape Modifications

    Edited by N Thomas Håkansson, Mats Widgren ...
    Series series New Frontiers in Historical Ecology
    This book is the first comprehensive, global treatment of landesque capital, a widespread concept used to understand anthropogenic landscapes that serve important economic, social, and ritual purposes. Spanning the disciplines of anthropology, human ecology, geography, archaeology, and history, chapters combine theoretical rigor with in-depth empirical studies of major landscape modifications from ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Rethinking Environmental History

    World-System History and Global Environmental Change

    by Joan Martinez-Alier, Stephen G. Bunker, William H. Fisher, Rafael A. Gassón, Stefan Giljum, N Thomas Håkansson, Josiah Heyman, J Donald Hughes, Andrew K. Jorgenson0, Robert B. Marks1, Jason W. Moore2, Roldan Muradian3, Janken Myrdal4, James Rice5, Joseph A. Tainter6, Immanuel Wallerstein7, Helga Weisz8, Mats Widgren9, Richard Wilk0, Michael Williams1 ...
    Series series Globalization and the Environment
    This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the prominent social scientists, historians, and geographical scientists to provide a historical overview of the ecological dimension of global economic processes. ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

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  • Companion Encyclopedia of Geography

    The Environment and Humankind

    Edited by Prof Ian Douglas, Ian Douglas, Richard John Hugget, Mike Robinson ...
    The Companion Encyclopedia of Geography provides an authoritative and provocative source of reference for all those concerned with the earth and its people. Examining both physical and human geography and charting human activities within their habitat up to the present day, this Companion also asks what lies in the future:* A differentiated world* A world transformed by the growth of a global ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

  • The Environment in Anthropology, Second Edition

    A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living

    Edited by Nora Haenn, Allison Harnish, Richard Wilk ...
    Presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of viewThe Environment in Anthropology presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of view. From the classics to the most current scholarship, this text connects the theory and practice in environment and anthropology, providing readers with a strong intellectual foundation as well ... Read more

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  • A Blue New Deal

    Why We Need a New Politics for the Ocean

    by Chris Armstrong ...
    An urgent account of the state of our oceans today—and what we must do to protect themThe ocean sustains life on our planet, from absorbing carbon to regulating temperatures, and, as we exhaust the resources to be found on land, it is becoming central to the global market. But today we are facing two urgent challenges at sea: massive environmental destruction, and spiraling inequality in the ocean ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Bronze Age Economics

    The First Political Economies

    by Timothy Earle ...
    "Timothy Earle has set out to offer the most comprehensive view now available of the economic foundations of early societies, and it may well be that he has succeeded. Bronze Age Economics is a pioneering contribution to archaeological theory." —Colin Renfrew, University of Cambridge ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • People, Plants, and Justice

    The Politics of Nature Conservation

    Edited by Charles Zerner ...
    In an era of market triumphalism, this book probes the social and environmental consequences of market-linked nature conservation schemes. Rather than supporting a new anti-market orthodoxy, Charles Zerner and colleagues assert that there is no universal entity, "the market." Analysis and remedies must be based on broader considerations of history, culture, and geography in order to establish ... Read more

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  • Climate, Capitalism and Communities

    An Anthropology of Environmental Overheating

    Edited by Astrid B. Stensrud, Thomas Hylland Eriksen ...
    Until now, the growing body of work on environmental anthropology has largely ignored the unavoidable impact of global capitalism on the environment and the extent to which capital itself is a key driver of climate change.Climate, Capitalism and Communities focuses explicitly on that nexus, examining the injustices and inequalities - as well as the activist responses - that have arisen as a result ... Read more

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  • The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry

    An Historical Anthropology

    by Stephen Nugent ...
    In this engaging book, Stephen Nugent offers an in-depth historical anthropology of a widely recognised feature of the Amazon region, examining the dramatic rise and fall of the rubber industry. He considers rubber in the Amazon from the perspective of a long-term extractive industry that linked remote forest tappers to technical innovations central to the industrial transformation of Europe and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Great Derangement

    Climate Change and the Unthinkable

    by Amitav Ghosh ...
    Series series Berlin Family Lectures
    A " concise and utterly enlightening" look at why we can't wrap our minds around climate change ( Publishers Weekly).Are we deranged? Award-winning essayist and novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? The Great Derangement examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to ... Read more

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  • Governing the Commons

    The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

    by Elinor Ostrom ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor ... Read more

    $21.39 USD