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- English
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Environmental History in the Pacific World
About this book
This volume brings together a set of key articles from the last 30 years pertaining to the environmental history of the Pacific basin. It aims to treat the islands and waters of the Pacific as well as the lands around the Rim, from New Zealand to Japan, to California, to Chile, and is the first work of environmental history to take this inclusive view of the Pacific basin. The focus is mainly on recent centuries but, as environmental history requires, at times the work also takes the very long view of millennia. Several of the articles seek to bring a broad Pacific perspective to bear on their subjects, while others use Pacific-basin examples to try to establish broader theoretical points of interest to all who are drawn to the study of the interactions between nature and culture. The book includes a bibliography of Pacific-basin environmental history and an introduction that aims to sketch the contours and possible future directions of the field.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- General Editor’s Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Commercialization without Capitalism: Processes of Environmental Change in South China, 1550-1850
- 2 Three Thousand Years of Unsustainable Growth: China’s Environment from Archaic Times to the Present
- 3 Of Rats and Men: A Synoptic Environmental History of the Island Pacific
- 4 Coming to Terms with Nature: State and Environment in Maritime Southeast Asia
- 5 Peripheral Visions: Californian-Australian Environmental Contacts, c. 1850s-1910
- 6 Biotic Change in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand
- 7 Population of the French Overseas Territories in the Pacific, Past, Present and Projected
- 8 Hydraulic Society in California: An Ecological Interpretation
- 9 Humans and Forests in Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia
- 10 Discrepancies between Environmental Attitude and Behaviour: Examples from Europe and China
- 11 Towards an Interactive Theory of Nature and Culture: Ecology, Production, and Cognition in the California Fishing Industry
- 12 Putting a Ceiling on Sealing: Conservation and Cooperation in the International Arena, 1909-1911
- 13 A Sacred Mountain of Gold: The Creation of a Mining Resource Frontier in Papua New Guinea
- 14 Ecology and the Poor: A Neglected Dimension of Latin American History
- 15 Patterns of Landscape Modification in Relation to Agricultural Practice in Central Chile
- 16 Resource Use and Environmental Management in Japan, 1890-1990
- 17 The Forests of Tokugawa Japan: A Catastrophe that was Avoided
- Index