Environment and History The Taming of Nature in the U. S. A. and South Africa

Name: Environment and History The Taming of Nature in the U. S. A. and South Africa
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ISBN: 9780415114684

ISBN-10: 0415114683

ISBN-13: 9780415114684

Edition: 1995

Authors: William Beinart, Peter Coates

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The influence of human economies and cultures on ecosystems is particularly striking in the new worlds into which Europeans have expanded over the past 500 years. Using a comparative and multidisciplinary approach,Environment and Historyexamines the neglected historical subject of settler incursion and dominance in two frontier nations, the US and South Africa. The powerful historical insights already achieved in comparing the racial systems and frontier societies of the US and South Africa are extended in this challenging text.Environment and Historyis covers a broad sweep of environmental history in a particularly revealing context. The intrusive capitalist systems that came to dictate…

Book details

List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/10/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 136
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Peter Coates is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Bristol.



Series Editors' Preface


Preface



The Nature of Environmental History: the United States and South Africa Compared


Notes



Hunting and Animals: from Game to Wildlife



The Fall and Rise of Trees: Forests, Felling and Forestry



Agriculture: Exploitation Unlimited and Limited



Nature Reserves and National Parks: Revaluing and Renaturing the Wild



From Conservation to Environmentalism and Beyond


Index