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  • Nature's Diplomats

    Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920-1960

    av Raf De Bont ...
    Serie Bok 8 - Intersections
    Nature’s Diplomats explores the development of science-based and internationally conceived nature protection in its foundational years before the 1960s, the decade when it launched from obscurity onto the global stage. Raf De Bont studies a movement while it was still in the making and its groups were still rather small, revealing the geographies of the early international preservationist groups, ... Läs mer

    592,54 kr

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  • Globalists

    The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

    George Louis Beer Prize WinnerWallace K. Ferguson Prize FinalistA Marginal Revolution Book of the Year“A groundbreaking contribution…Intellectual history at its best.”—Stephen Wertheim, Foreign AffairsNeoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of ... Läs mer

    156,13 kr

  • Something New Under the Sun

    av J. R. McNeill ...
    Serie serie The Global Century Series
    The definitive environmental history of the twentieth-century world, now updated for the twenty-first.Humans have long transformed the planet, scratching its surface for stones and ores, planting and harvesting crops, sparking fires for light and heat. But since the dawn of industrialization and especially since 1950, our impact has accelerated sharply. Economic, technological, and demographic ... Läs mer

    161,53 kr

  • The Shock of the Anthropocene

    The Earth, History and Us

    The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years.How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a "human species" that upset the Earth system, unaware of what it was doing, this book proposes the ... Läs mer

    89,77 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Vulnerable Planet

    A Short Economic History of the Environment

    The Vulnerable Planet has won respect as the best single-volume introduction to the global economic crisis.With impressive historical and economic detail, ranging from the Industrial Revolution to modern imperialism, The Vulnerable Planet explores the reasons why a global economic system geared toward private profit has spelled vulnerability for the earth's fragile natural environment.Rejecting ... Läs mer

    114,15 kr

  • Old Gods, New Enigmas

    Marx's Lost Theory

    av Mike Davis ...
    Old Gods, New Enigmas is the highly-anticipated book by the best-selling author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums. Mike Davis spent years working factory jobs and sitting behind the wheel of an eighteen wheeler before his profile as one of the world's leading urbanists emerged with the publication of his sober, if dystopian survey of Los Angeles. Since then, he's developed a reputation not ... Läs mer

    89,77 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Age of Ecology

    This book is the first major study of the history of environmentalism, from its origins in romanticism and the nature cults of the late 18th century to the global environmental movements of today.Radkau shows that this is not a single story of the steady ascent of environmentalism but rather a multiplicity of stories, each with its own dramatic tension: between single-issue movements and the ... Läs mer

    169,38 kr

  • Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire

    Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World

    av Corey Ross ...
    Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of tropical commodity production, global trade, and modern resource management-transformations that still visibly shape our world today-and ... Läs mer

    288,31 kr

  • NGOs

    A New History of Transnational Civil Society

    av Thomas Davies ...
    In the first historical account of international NGOs, from the French Revolution to the present, Thomas Davies places the contemporary debate on transnational civil society in context. In contrast to the conventional wisdom, which sees transnational civil society as a recent development taking place along a linear trajectory, he explores the long history of international NGOs in terms of a ... Läs mer

    214,85 kr

  • Political Ecology

    The Climate Crisis and a New Social Agenda

    Political Ecology explains the history of environmental politics and its prospects for the future. This highly readable classic is now available in a revised and expanded edition.Political Ecology opens by presenting the history of the state management of the environment, then moves to an overview of the great variety of popular responses to the ecological crisis, before finally discussing the ... Läs mer

    94,15 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Invention of Green Colonialism

    Översatt av Helen Morrison ...
    The story begins with a dream – the dream of Africa. Virgin forests, majestic mountains surrounded by savannas, vast plains punctuated with the rhythms of animal life where lions, elephants and giraffes reign as lords of nature, far from civilization – all of us carry such images in our heads, imagining Africa as a timeless Eden untouched by the ravages of modernity.But this Africa has never ... Läs mer

    182,95 kr

  • Forest and Labor in Madagascar

    From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere

    A study of the demands of economic development and ecological conservation on the African island country.Protecting the unique plants and animals that live on Madagascar while fueling economic growth has been a priority for the Malagasy state, international donors, and conservation NGOs since the late 1980s. Forest and Labor in Madagascar shows how poor rural workers who must make a living from ... Läs mer

    80,02 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus