
A Dictionary of Environmental History
Ian Whyte(Author)
I.B. Tauris (Publisher)
Published on 21. May 2013
Book
Hardback
592 pages
978-1-84511-462-6 (ISBN)
Description
Increasing awareness of the extent and cause of environmental problems has fuelled the emergence of a new and timely discipline: environmental history. An exciting blend of geography, history, archaeology, anthropology, landscape, environment and science, it seeks to reveal how human activity has affected the environment in the past and how we, in turn, have been affected by that environment. How did people use and transform their environment? What problems of pollution and resource depletion occurred? What has been the impact of industrialisation and urbanisation? How have people's perceptions of nature and the environment changed over time? Environmental historians are revealing how and why our environment changed in the past, they are providing key insights into the mechanisms that influence environmental change today, and are helping to make informed decisions on crucial environmental concerns such as deforestation, desertification, pollution, global warming and climate change. Professor Whyte's A Dictionary of Environmental History provides in a single volume a comprehensive reference work covering the past 12,000 years of the Earth's environmental history.
An introduction to the discipline is followed by almost 1,000 entries covering key terminology, events, places, dates, topics, as well as the major personalities in the history of the discipline. Entries range from shorter factual accounts to substantial mini-essays on major topics and issues. Fully cross-referenced and with an extensive bibliography, this pioneering work provides an authoritative yet accessible resourcethat will form essential reading for academics, practitioners and students of environmental history and related disciplines.
An introduction to the discipline is followed by almost 1,000 entries covering key terminology, events, places, dates, topics, as well as the major personalities in the history of the discipline. Entries range from shorter factual accounts to substantial mini-essays on major topics and issues. Fully cross-referenced and with an extensive bibliography, this pioneering work provides an authoritative yet accessible resourcethat will form essential reading for academics, practitioners and students of environmental history and related disciplines.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
40 bw integrated
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
1045 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84511-462-6 (9781845114626)
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Person
Ian Whyte is Professor of Historical Geography at the Lancaster Environmental Centre, Lancaster University. He has published widely in the areas of social and economic history, landscape history and environmental change with a focus on landscape change in upland areas in Europe from medieval times onwards. He is the author of many books, including Scotland Before the Industrial Revolution. An Economic and Social History c.1050-c.1750 (1995), Landscape and History since 1500 (2003), and World Without End? (I.B.Tauris, 2008).
Content
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: What is Environmental History?
Entries A-Z
A Guide to Further Reading
Index
Abbreviations
Introduction: What is Environmental History?
Entries A-Z
A Guide to Further Reading
Index