The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History

by Andrew C. Isenberg

2020-11-24 16:46:45

The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of the most innovative and important new approaches to history, one that bridges the human and natural world, the humanities and the sciences. With the curr... Read more
The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of the most innovative and important new approaches to history, one that bridges the human and natural world, the humanities and the sciences. With the current trend towards internationalizinghistory, environmental history is perhaps the quintessential approach to studying subjects outside the nation-state model, with pollution, global warming, and other issues affecting the earth not stopping at national borders. With 25 essays, this Handbook is global in scope and innovative inorganization, looking at the field thematically through such categories as climate, disease, oceans, the body, energy, consumerism, and international relations. Less

Book Details

File size9.75 X 6.75 X 0.98 in
Print pages768
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date October 8, 2014
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780195324907
Andrew C. Isenberg is a professor of history at Temple University. He is the author of The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750–1920 and is a former fellow of the Huntington Libr...

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