Nature's End History and the Environment

by Sörlin, Sverker; Warde, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780230203464
• ISBN10: 0230203469
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Environmental History as a distinct discipline is now over a generation old, with a large and diverse group of practitioners around the globe. This book provides a reflection on the achievements, diversity, and direction of environmental history in its varied national, international and continental contexts.

Author Biography

PAUL WARDE  is a Reader in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. Previous works include Economy, Ecology and State Formation in Early Modern Germany (2006) and Energy Consumption in England and Wales 1560-2000 (2007). He was the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2008.

SVERKER SÖRLIN  is Professor of Environmental History in the Division of History of Science and Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Among his books are Sustainability – the Challenge (1998) and Narrating the Arctic (2002, with M. T. Bravo). He won the August [for Strindberg] Prize for his two volume History of European Ideas 1492-1918 (2004).

Table of Contents

"[T]he volume achieves its stated goal: to broaden the meaning of 'history' and at the same time preserve its essentially human focus... The essays will appeal to professional historians and graduate students... Recommended." —CHOICE

“Nature's End deserves a wide audience. Environmental historians of all sorts will find it useful, as few such collections can boast such a rich and diverse array of contributions, ranging widely in geographical and chronological scope and presenting several methodological and conceptual approaches.”  —William Cavert, H-Environment