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Title Globalization, environmental change, and social history [electronic resource] / edited by Peter Boomgaard and Marjolein 't Hart.

Imprint Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Description 233 p. : ill.
Series International review of social history, 0020-8590 ; vol. 55 (2010), special issue 18
International review of social history. Special issue ; 18.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Globalization, environmental change, and social history : an introduction / Peter Boomgaard and Marjolein 't Hart -- The El Dorado of forestry : the eucalyptus in India, South Africa, and Thailand, 1850-2000 / Brett M. Bennett -- The Mid-Atlantic islands : a theatre of early modern ecocide? / Stefan Halikowski Smith -- Environmental change and globalization in seventeenth-century France : Dutch traders and the draining of French wetlands (Arles, Petit Poitou) / Raphael Morera -- The colonial famine plot : slavery, free trade, and empire in the French Atlantic, 1763-1791 / Joseph Horan -- Environmental changes, the emergence of a fuel market, and the working conditions of salt makers in Bengal, c.1780-1845 / Sayako Kanda -- Industrial life in a limiting landscape : an environmental interpretation of Stalinist Social conditions in the far north / Andy Bruno -- "Pumpkins just got in there": gender and generational conflict and "improved" agriculture in colonial Zimbabwe / Guy Thompson -- Hydro-businesses : national and global demands influencing meanings and uses of the Sao Francisco River Basin environment of Brazil / Lucigleide Nery Nascimento and Mimi Larsen Becker.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Social history.
Globalization -- Social aspects.
Global environmental change -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Boomgaard, P., 1946-
Hart, Marjolein C. 't.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781107401518 (pbk)
1107401518 (pbk)
9781139203630 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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