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The Mistral
An in-depth look at the hidden power of the mistral wind and its effect on modern French history. Every year, the chilly mistral wind blows through the Rhône valley of southern France, across the Camargue wetlands, and into the Mediterranean Sea. Most forceful when winter turns to spring, the wind knocks over trees, sweeps trains off their tracks, and destroys crops. Yet the mistral turns the sky clear and blue, as it often appears in depictions of Provence. The legendary wind is central to the area’s regional identity and has inspired artists and writers near and far for centuries. This force of nature is the focus of Catherine Dunlop’s The Mistral, a wonderfully written examination of the power of the mistral wind, and in particular, the ways it challenged central tenets of nineteenth-century European society: order, mastery, and predictability. As Dunlop shows, while the modernizing state sought liberation from environmental realities through scientific advances, land modification, and other technological solutions, the wind blew on, literally crushing attempts at control, and becoming increasingly integral to regional feelings of place and community.
The Frigid Golden Age
Explores the resilience of the Dutch Republic in the face of preindustrial climate change during the Little Ice Age.
Climate Change and Cultural Transition in Europe
Climate Change and Cultural Transition in Europe is an account of Europe’s share in the making of global warming, which considers the past and future of climate-society interactions. Contributors include: Clara Brandi, Rüdiger Glaser, Iso Himmelsbach, Claudia Kemfert, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Claus Leggewie, Franz Mauelshagen, Geoffrey Parker, Christian Pfister, Dirk Riemann, Lea Schmitt, Jörn Sieglerschmidt, Markus Vogt, and Steffen Vogt.
Environing Media
This edited volume interrogates the role of media technologies in the formation of environments, understood both as physical spaces and as epistemological constructs about them. Using the concept of ‘environing media’, the book advances a deeper understanding of how media processes – defined here as the storage, process, and transmission of data – influence human-Earth relations. Virtually all aspects of the interconnected global ecological crisis can be related to the intensification and acceleration of scaling up the human imprint on the planet by technological means. Combining ideas from the humanities, arts, and humanistic social sciences, Environing Media offers a perspective on...
Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City
Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City is the first cultural history of major new parks developed in Paris in the late twentieth century, as part of the city's program of adaptive reuse of industrial spaces. Thanks to laws that gave the city more political autonomy, Paris's local government launched a campaign of park creation in the late 1970s that continued to the turn of the millennium. The parks in this book represent this campaign and illustrate different facets of their cultural and historical context. Archival research, interviews, and analyses of the parks reveal how postmodern debates about urban planning, the historic city, public space, and nature's presence in an urban settin...
A History of Cookbooks
Prologue: a rendez-vous -- The cook -- Writer and author -- Origin and early development of modern cookbooks -- Printed cookbooks: diffusion, translation, and plagiarism -- Organizing the cookbook -- Naming the recipes -- Pedagogical and didactic aspects -- Paratexts in cookbooks -- The recipe form -- The cookbook genre -- Cookbooks for rich and poor -- Health and medicine in cookbooks -- Recipes for fat and lean days -- Vegetarian cookbooks -- Jewish cookbooks -- Cookbooks and aspects of nationalism -- Decoration, illusion, and entertainment -- Taste and pleasure -- Gender in cookbooks and household books -- Epilogue: cookbooks and the future.
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics
'The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics' explores some of the most important environmental issues through the lens of comparative politics, including energy, climate change, food, health, urbanization, waste, and sustainability. The chapters delve into more traditional forms of comparative environmental politics (CEP) - the political economy of natural resources and the role of corporations and supply chains - while also showcasing new trends in CEP scholarship, particularly the comparative study of environmental injustice and intersectional inequities.
The Handbook of Global Science, Technology, and Innovation
The Handbook of Global Science, Technology, and Innovation This unique Handbook provides an overview of the globalization of science, technology, and innovation, including global trends in the way knowledge is produced and distributed, the development of institutions, and global policy. It shows how technological change and innovation are shaped by the role of emerging countries in the generation of science and technological knowledge, and transnational corporations, and how reforms in intellectual property rights and world trade have been affected by the increasingly international flows of knowledge, technology, and innovation. The book provides an in-depth assessment of the themes and dire...
Cultures : espaces et pratiques
Ce numéro thématique s’inscrit dans le prolongement de la journée d’étude organisée par Géographie et cultures en mars 2022 à l’occasion des 30 ans de la revue. C’était alors l’occasion de faire un état des débats dans et autour de la géographie culturelle en France, sur les évolutions théoriques et méthodologiques de cette dernière, et la manière dont la revue a pu y contribuer. Les textes réunis ici interrogent plus précisément la manière de penser les cultures et les processus culturels par l’espace et les pratiques. L’hypothèse sous-jacente est que la géographie culturelle est progressivement passée d’une analyse des cultures à une analyse des pratiques culturelles et des processus culturels, que ce soit au travers des pratiques artistiques, des loisirs, du rapport aux objets ou des intérieurs domestiques. Afin de prolonger ou revisiter ces débats, parfois anciens, les travaux issus des communications sont accompagnés de deux articles de Paul Claval, fondateur de la revue, deux textes de cadrage et un entretien.
날씨의 맛
비, 햇빛, 바람, 눈, 안개, 뇌우… 날씨를 느끼는 사람들의 감수성은 어떻게 변화해왔나 기쁨, 슬픔, 즐거움, 혐오, 우울, 공포, 불안, 권태… 날씨와 관련된 감각과 감정의 변천사를 읽는다 스탕달은 사적인 글에서 “영원히 내릴 것처럼 계속되는 질척하고 고약하고 밉살스러운 비” 때문에 되는 일이 없다고 투덜댔다. 헨리 데이비드 소로는《월든》에서 “비가 식물에 좋다면 나에게도 좋은 것”이라며 자연과의 일체감을 주는 비를 예찬했다. 이처럼 상반된 감정을, 주관적이고 개인적인 감상을 불러일으키는 날씨는 문학 작...
