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  • Local Places, Global Processes

    histories of environmental change in Britain and beyond

    Edited by Peter Coates, David Moon, Paul Warde ...
    We live in an age of unprecedented environmental change: global, interconnected and universal. Yet though our lives are inextricably connected to global processes, and increasingly mobile, we still live in particular places. Our perceptions of change, and what kind of change might be for good or ill, are shaped by the interaction of localised experience and the wider forces of transformation. ... Read more

    $19.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Environment

    A History of the Idea

    by Paul Warde, Libby Robin, Sverker Sörlin ...
    An in-depth look at the history of the environment.Is it possible for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed? Will our lifestyles impoverish the planet for our children and grandchildren? Is the world sick? Can it be healed? Less than a lifetime ago, these questions would have made no sense. This was not because our ancestors had no impact on nature—nor because they were ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • In Search of Good Energy Policy

    Edited by Marc Ozawa, Jonathan Chaplin, Michael Pollitt, David Reiner, Paul Warde ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance
    Drawing on political science, economics, philosophy, theology, social anthropology, history, management studies, law, and other subject areas, In Search of Good Energy Policy brings together leading academics from across the social sciences and humanities to offer an innovative look at why science and technology, and the type of quantification they champion, cannot alone meet the needs of energy ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Environment

    A History of the Idea

    by Paul Warde, Libby Robin, Sverker Sörlin ...
    An in-depth look at the history of the environment.Is it possible for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed? Will our lifestyles impoverish the planet for our children and grandchildren? Is the world sick? Can it be healed? Less than a lifetime ago, these questions would have made no sense. This was not because our ancestors had no impact on nature—nor because they were ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Invention of Sustainability

    Nature and Destiny, c.1500–1870

    by Paul Warde ...
    The issue of sustainability, and the idea that economic growth and development might destroy its own foundations, is one of the defining political problems of our era. This groundbreaking study traces the emergence of this idea, and demonstrates how sustainability was closely linked to hopes for growth, and the destiny of expanding European states, from the sixteenth century. Weaving together ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Crises in Economic and Social History

    A Comparative Perspective

    by A.T. Brown, John Martin, John S. Lee, John Singleton, Josette Duncan, Mark Casson, Matthew Hollow, Pamela Nightingale, Paul Warde, Pavla Jirkova0, Peter H. Bent1, Andy Burn3, Philip Slavin4, Ranald C Michie5, Rob Doherty6, Samuel K. Cohn8, Alan Knight9, Anne L. Murphy0, Catherine Casson1, Cinzia Lorandini2 ...
    This collection of essays brings together historians examining social and economic crises from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. Crisis is an almost ubiquitous concept for historians, applicable across (amongst others) the histories of agriculture, disease, finance and trade. Yet there has been little attempt to compare its use as an explanatory tool between these discrete fields of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Cameralism in Practice

    State Administration and Economy in Early Modern Europe

    by Marten Seppel, Lars Magnusson, Paul Warde, Roger Bartlett, Keith Tribe, Alexandre Mendes Cunha, Frank Oberholzner, Göran Rydén, Guillaume Garner0, Hans Frambach1, Ingrid Markussen2 ...
    This book discusses the impact of cameralism on the practices of governance, early modern state-building and economy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. It argues that the cameralist conception of state and economy - aform of 'science' of government dedicated to reforming society while promoting economic development, and often associated mainly with Prussia - had significant impact far ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Future of Nature

    Documents of Global Change

    Edited by Libby Robin, Sverker Sorlin, Paul Warde ...

    $26.99 USD

  • Power to the People

    Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries

    by Astrid Kander, Paolo Malanima, Paul Warde ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    Power to the People examines the varied but interconnected relationships between energy consumption and economic development in Europe over the last five centuries. It describes how the traditional energy economy of medieval and early modern Europe was marked by stable or falling per capita energy consumption, and how the First Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century--fueled by coal and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    The Environment

    A History of the Idea

    by Paul Warde, Libby Robin, Sverker Sorlin ...
    Narrated by Henrietta Meire ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 27 min

    Is it possible for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed? Will our lifestyles impoverish the planet for our children and grandchildren? Is the world sick? Can it be healed? Less than a lifetime ago, these questions would have made no sense. This was not because our ancestors had no impact on nature—nor because they were unaware of the serious damage they had done. What people ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective

    by Robert C. Allen ...
    Series series New Approaches to Economic and Social History
    Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows that in Britain wages were high and capital and energy cheap in comparison to other countries in ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Cotton

    The Fabric that Made the Modern World

    by Giorgio Riello ...
    Today's world textile and garment trade is valued at a staggering $425 billion. We are told that under the pressure of increasing globalisation, it is India and China that are the new world manufacturing powerhouses. However, this is not a new phenomenon: until the industrial revolution, Asia manufactured great quantities of colourful printed cottons that were sold to places as far afield as Japan ... Read more

    $36.09 USD