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Knowing Global Environments
Jeremy . Ed(S): Vetter
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Description for Knowing Global Environments
Editor(s): Vetter, Jeremy. Series: Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations , map. BIC Classification: RN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 526.
Knowing Global Environments brings together nine leading scholars whose work spans a variety of environmental and field sciences, including archaeology, agriculture, botany, climatology, ecology, evolutionary biology, oceanography, ornithology, and tidology.
Collectively their essays explore the history of the field sciences, through the lens of place, practice, and the production of scientific knowledge, with a wide-ranging perspective extending outwards from the local to regional, national, imperial, and global scales. The book also shows what the history of the field sciences can contribute to environmental history-especially how knowledge in the field sciences has intersected with changing environments-and addresses key present-day problems ... Read more
Knowing Global Environments brings together nine leading scholars whose work spans a variety of environmental and field sciences, including archaeology, agriculture, botany, climatology, ecology, evolutionary biology, oceanography, ornithology, and tidology.
Collectively their essays explore the history of the field sciences, through the lens of place, practice, and the production of scientific knowledge, with a wide-ranging perspective extending outwards from the local to regional, national, imperial, and global scales. The book also shows what the history of the field sciences can contribute to environmental history-especially how knowledge in the field sciences has intersected with changing environments-and addresses key present-day problems ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment
Number of Pages
272
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813548753
SKU
V9780813548753
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About Jeremy . Ed(S): Vetter
JEREMY VETTER is an assistant professor of history at the University of Arizona.
Reviews for Knowing Global Environments
"A valuable contribution to the growing dialogue between historians of science and environmental historians. We have under one cover a fascinating compendium of theses and their environmental implications."
Environmental History
"Knowing Global Environments thoroughly recasts our understanding of the field sciences by embedding them in environmental history, political economy, and a deepening public involvement. Each case study is a ... Read more
Environmental History
"Knowing Global Environments thoroughly recasts our understanding of the field sciences by embedding them in environmental history, political economy, and a deepening public involvement. Each case study is a ... Read more