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Governing the environment in the early modern world : theory and practice / edited by Sarah Miglietti and John Morgan

Miglietti, Sarah [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Morgan, John Emrys, ca. 20./21. Jh. [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Miglietti, Sara [Herausgeberin/-geber]

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017

xiii, 195 Seiten ; 24 cm

Englisch

978-1-138-67477-6 ( : hbk)

978-1-315-56109-7 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2016044318

9781138674776

OCoLC: 986788715 (aus SWB)     

NN 1400      Ähnliche Literatur

GF13

304.209/03

*Humanökologie ; Kulturökologie ; Klimaänderung ; Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Aufsatzsammlung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Human ecology -- History ; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- History ; Global environmental change -- History ; Environmental policy -- History

Introduction : ruling climates in the early modern world -- Climate, travel and colonialism in the early modern world -- Jean Bodin and the idea of anachorism -- Marshes as a microclimate : governing with the environment in early modern France -- Mastering north east England's "river of Tine" -- Winter and discontent in early modern England -- "Take plow and spade, build and plant and make the wasteland fruitful" : Gerrard Winstanley and the importance of labour in governing the earth -- "A considerable change of climate" : glacial retreat and British policy in the early-nineteenth-century Arctic -- Vast factories of febrile poison : wetlands, drainage, and the fate of American climates, 1750-1850