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An Environmental History of Medieval Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 429

An Environmental History of Medieval Europe

How did medieval Europeans use and change their environments, think about the natural world, and try to handle the natural forces affecting their lives? This groundbreaking environmental history examines medieval relationships with the natural world from the perspective of social ecology, viewing human society as a hybrid of the cultural and the natural. Richard Hoffmann's interdisciplinary approach sheds important light on such central topics in medieval history as the decline of Rome, religious doctrine, urbanization and technology, as well as key environmental themes, among them energy use, sustainability, disease and climate change. Revealing the role of natural forces in events previously seen as purely human, the book explores issues including the treatment of animals, the 'tragedy of the commons', agricultural clearances and agrarian economies. By introducing medieval history in the context of social ecology, it brings the natural world into historiography as an agent and object of history itself.

Conservation’s Roots
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 374

Conservation’s Roots

The ideas and practices that comprise “conservation” are often assumed to have arisen within the last two centuries. However, while conservation today has been undeniably entwined with processes of modernity, its historical roots run much deeper. Considering a variety of preindustrial European settings, this book assembles case studies from the medieval and early modern eras to demonstrate that practices like those advocated by modern conservationists were far more widespread and intentional than is widely acknowledged. As the first book-length treatment of the subject, Conservation’s Roots provides broad social, historical, and environmental context for the emergence of the nineteenth-century conservation movement.

Ligurian Landscapes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 201

Ligurian Landscapes

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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North Atlantic Fisheries
  • Language: en

North Atlantic Fisheries

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Sylvicultura Oeconomica
  • Language: en

Sylvicultura Oeconomica

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