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Environmental History As A Distinct Discipline Is Now Over A Generation Old, With A Large And Diverse Group Of Practitioners Around The Globe. This Book Provides A Reflection On The Achievements, Diversity, And Direction Of Environmental History In Its Varied National, International And Continental Contexts. Making The Environment Historical: An Introduction / Sverker Sorlin And Paul Warde -- Imperialism, Intellectual Networks, And Environmental Change: Unearthing The Origins And Evolution Of Global Environmental History / Richard Grove And Vinita Damodaran -- Separation, Proprietorship And Community In The History Of Conservation / William M. Adams -- The Environmental History Of Pre-industrial Agriculture In Europe / Paul Warde -- The Global Warming That Did Not Happen: Historicizing Glaciology And Climate Change / Sverker Sorlin -- Genealogies Of The Ecological Moment: Planning, Complexity And The Emergence Of 'the Environment' As Politics In West Germany, 1949-1982 / Holger Nehring -- The Environmental History Of Mountain Regions / Robert A. Dodgshon -- Interdisciplinary Conversations: The Collective Model / A. Hamilton... [et Al.] -- New Science For Sustainability In An Ancient Land / Libby Robin -- 54, 40 Or Fight: Writing Within And Across Borders In North American Environmental History / Matthew Evenden And Graeme Wynn -- Modernity And The Politics Of Waste In Britain / Tim Cooper -- Why Intensify? The Outline Of A Theory Of The Institutional Causes Driving Long-term Changes In Chinese Farming And The Consequent Modifications To The Environment / Mark Elvin -- Reconsidering Climate And Causality: Case Studies From Colonial Mexico / Georgina Endfield -- Destinies And Decisions: Taking The Life-world Seriously In Environmental History / Kirsten Hastrup. Edited By S. Sörlin, P. Warde. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English