A global history documents the flow of ideas across cultures, the ways in which the environmental movement in one country has been invigorated or transformed by infusions from outside. California world history library titles from university of california. Amazon price new from used from hardcover please retry. A global history attempts to provide an overview of the two waves of environmentalism while documenting the flow of ideas across cultures. Compassion alvin finkel macmillan international higher education. Providing its readers with a unique point of reference, as well as stimulus for further research, the encyclopedia of global environmental governance and politics is an indispensable tool for. Written by one of the foremost thinkers on ecological issues relating to south africa, this new text offers a crosscultural and global survey of environmental thinking and the movements it has spawned. New books about americas national parks the seattle times. In modern america, we need to see this with clear eyes. Masters programme in global environmental history 2020. Guha does an excellent job of showing that environmentalism is not strictly a western movement, demonstrating the significance that people across the world have had on the.
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