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What is environmental history?

* First port of call textbook for anyone new to environmental history. * Written by one of the most distinguished and senior scholars in the field. * Maps out how environmental history came to be, its relation to other historical disciplines, and its future, through the main themes, thinkers and controversies.
Print Book, English, 2006
1st ed
Polity, Cambridge, 2006
180 p. : il
9780745631882, 9780745631899, 0745631886, 0745631894
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1. Defining Environmental History. 2. Forerunners of Environmental History. 3. The Birth and Growth of Environmental History in the United States. 4. Local, Regional, and National Environmental Histories. 5. Global Environmental History. 6. Issues and Directions in Environmental History. 7. Thoughts on Doing Environmental History. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index.