Earth, Air, Fire, Water

by Conway, Jill Ker; Keniston, Kenneth; Marx, Leo

• ISBN13: 9781558492219
• ISBN10: 1558492216
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Author Biography

Jill Ker Conway is a visiting scholar and professor at MIT Kenneth Keniston is Andrew Mellon Professor of Human Development at MIT Leo Marx is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Cultural History (emeritus) at MIT

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
The New Environmentalisms	1	(36)
Jill Ker Conway
Kenneth Keniston
Leo Marx
I. HISTORICAL STUDIES
Introduction (JKC)	31	(6)
As the World Runs out of Breath: Metaphorical Perspectives on the Heavens and the Atmosphere in the Ancient World	37	(14)
Gregory Nagy
Climate and History: Lessons from the Great Plains	51	(27)
Donald Worster
Consumed by Either Fire or Fire: A Prolegomenon to Anthropogenic Fire	78	(24)
Stephen J. Pyne
Only a World Perspective Is Significant: Settlement Frontiers and Property Rights in Early Modern World History	102	(23)
John F. Richards
II. SOCIAL STUDIES
Introduction (KK)	119	(6)
Environmentalism and Indian Peoples	125	(20)
Richard White
Indigenous Rights, Environmental Protection, and the Struggle over Forest Resources in the Amazon: The Case of the Brazilian Kayapo	145	(25)
Terence Turner
Grassroots Environmental Activism: The Toxics Movement and Directions for Social Change	170	(14)
Barbara Epstein
Russian Environmental Movements	184	(22)
Oleg N. Yanitsky
Gender and Environmental Action	206	(53)
Bina Agarwal
III. THE QUESTION OF MODERNITY
Introduction (LM)	253	(6)
Gender, Environment, and Nature: Two Episodes in Feminist Politics	259	(20)
Jill Ker Conway
Yaakov Garb
Modernity and the Environment as a Public Issue in Today's Russia	279	(26)
Anton Struchkov
Modernity and Literary Theory	305	(15)
Louis Menand
Environmental Degradation and the Ambiguous Social Role of Science and Technology	320	(19)
Leo Marx
Appendix	339	(6)
Notes on Contributors	345