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The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History
Oxford Handbooks Series
Coordinator: Isenberg Andrew C.
Language: EnglishSubject for The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History:
The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History
Publication date: 11-2014
800 p. · 17.8x24.9 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 11-2014
800 p. · 17.8x24.9 cm · Hardback
The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History
Publication date: 03-2017
800 p. · 24.1x17 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 03-2017
800 p. · 24.1x17 cm · Paperback
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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 internationalizing history, 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 in organization, looking at the field thematically through such categories as climate, disease, oceans, the body, energy, consumerism, and international relations.
Andrew C. Isenberg is Professor of History at Temple University. He is the author of The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920, Mining California: An Ecological History, and Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life, and the editor of The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space.
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