Search Results - "Ecology."

Nature and history in modern Italy /

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Revealed biodiversity : an economic history of the human impact / by Jones, E. L. (Eric Lionel)

Table of Contents: “…Environmental crisis -- Environmental decline -- The example of English butterflies -- Commodity landscapes -- Agricultural history -- Drainage and wildlife exploitation in the Netherlands and England -- The shooting industry -- The angling industry -- Europe's overseas expansion -- Ecological history of the USA -- Recent ecological history of East Asia -- Modern agricultural prospects with special reference to Brazil -- Joint conservation of wildlife and ancient wildlife harvesting practices.…”
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Cultivating the colonies colonial states and their environmental legacies /

Table of Contents: “…The prospective colonist and strange environments : advice on health and prosperity / Andrew Wear -- Carved out of nature : identity and environment in German colonial Africa / Daniel Rouven Steinbach -- The science of nature and the nature of science in the Spanish and American Philippines at the turn of the twentieth century / Greg Bankoff -- Aerial photography and colonial discourse on the agricultural crisis in late-colonial Indochina, 1930-1945 / David Biggs -- Wetland colonies : Louisiana, Guangzhou, Pondicherry, and Senegal / Christopher Morris -- Colonization of the Russian North : a frozen frontier / Julia Lajus -- Recasting disease and its environment : indigenous medical practitioners, the plague, and politics in colonial India, 1898-1910 / Kavita Sivaramakrishnan -- Changing times, changing palates : the dietary impacts of Basuto adaptation to new rulers, crops, and markets, 1830s-1966 / Phia Steyn -- State rationality, development, and the making of state territory : from colonial extraction to postcolonial conservation in southern Mozambique / Elizabeth Lunstrum -- Ecological communication at the Oxford Imperial Forestry Institute / Peder Anker -- Colonial experts, developmental and environmental doctrines, and the legacies of late British colonialism / Joseph M. …”
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Natives and exotics World War II and environment in the southern Pacific / by Bennett, Judith A., 1944-

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Cities and nature in the American West /

Subjects: “…Urban ecology (Sociology) West (U.S.) History 20th century.…”
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