Environmentalism: A Global History
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (755 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0321011694 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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A new entry in the Longman World History Series, Environmentalism: A Global History is perfect for professors who want to assign short topical paperbacks which explore global issues and movements in their world history classes. This volume will fit into the second half of World History courses which typically cover the period from 1500 to the present century. Environmentalism: A Global History is the first genuinely global history of environmentalism. Students will find this new text to be a lively and engaging study of ideas and debates that are central to our lives in the twentieth-first century.. Written by one of the foremost thinkers on ecological issues relating to South Africa, Guha has become one of the more provocative and perceptive commentators on environmentalism in its cross-cultural and global dimensions
J. Brandt said A good introduction to Global Environmentalism. Guha's book is a short, but very well written book about the history of the Environmentalism movement. The Industrial Revolution, which began in England, soon brought writers and intellectuals to speak out against what they saw as the destruction of the world around them and the abuse of the natural resources of the land.Guha writes about the beginnings of American environmentalism and the need for national parks and even argues that American parks were built more for nationalistic reasons than for really wanting to preserve the lands in the United States.The book also takes on the growing. pushyam said Environtalism:a Global history. This book covers first wave and second wave of envoronmentalism. First wave is the initial response to the industrialisation. IT is expressed first by poets and writers such as wordsworth,ruskin,morris and carpenter.They gave message of simple life.Saint Gandhi gave the best known aphorism 'the world has enough for everybody's need but not enough for everybody's greed'. It is expressed secondly by ideology of scientific conservation.Here George Perkins,Marsh and Dietrich Brandis were forefront for scientific movement.Thirdly there is wilderness idea.It is the conservation of wild species a. A Concise History of Environmentalism. Ramachandra Guha’s Environmentalism: A Global History provides an overview of the history of environmentalism from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution to movements in the modern era. What makes this book so unique is that Guha focuses not only on Western environmental movements, but also discusses various strands of environmentalism across the globe. Influential figures such as John Muir, Mahatma Gandhi, Chico Mendes, Aldo Leopold, Radhakamal Mukerjee and Rachel Carlson are all discussed in the book. Guha divides the text into two parts. Part one focuses on environmentalism’s
These forays, short and long, have been paid for by hospitable universities and indulgent foundations who have helped me challenge one of the unacknowledged taboos of international scholarship. It is as difficult for a scholar of British origin to write a global history living in Bogota as it is easy for an Indian while based in Indianapolis. Next in chronological order comes the University of California at Santa Barbara, whose invitation in 1989 to deliver the Ninth Steven Manley Memorial Lecture forced me to think more seriously about the comparative aspects of the environmental