UID:
almahu_9949880686802882
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 227 pages) :
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maps
ISBN:
9781351764629
,
1351764624
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9781315195636
,
1315195631
Content:
"This volume brings together case studies from around the globe (including China, Latin America, the Philippines, Namibia, India and Europe) to explore the history of nature conservation in the twentieth century. It seeks to highlight the state, a central actor in these efforts, which is often taken for granted, and establishes a novel concept -- the nature state -- as a means for exploring the historical formation of that portion of the state dedicated to managing and protecting nature.Following the Industrial Revolution and post-war exponential increase in human population and consumption, conservation in myriad forms has been one particularly visible way in which the government and its agencies have tried to control, manage or produce nature for reasons other than raw exploitation. Using an interdisciplinary approach and including case studies from across the globe, this edited collection brings together geographers, sociologists, anthropologists and historians in order to examine the degree to which sociopolitical regimes facilitate and shape the emergence and development of nature states. This innovative work marks an early intervention in the tentative turn towards the state in environmental history and will be of great interest to students and practitioners of environmental history, social anthropology and conservation studies. ?"--Provided by publisher.
Note:
The export of the American national park idea in an age of empire : the Philippines, 1898-1940 / Ian Tyrrell -- Protecting patagonia : science, conservation and the pre-history of the nature state on a South American frontier, 1903-1934 / Emily Wakild -- Another way to preserve : hunting bans, biosecurity, and the brown bear in Italy, 1930-1960 / Wilko Graf von Hardenberg -- Conservation politics in the Madras presidency : maintaining the Lord Wenlock Downs of the Nilgiris Grasslands, South India, as a national park, 1930-1950 / Siddhartha Krishnan -- Negotiating the nature state beyond the parks : conservation in 20th century north-central Namibia / Emmanuel Kreike -- Conventional thinking and the fragile birth of the nature state in post-war Britain / Matthew Kelly -- Behind the scenes and out in the open : making Colombian national parks in the 1960s and 70s / Claudia Leal -- Ordering the borderland : settlement and removal in the Iguacu National Park, Brazil, 1940s-1970s / Frederico Freitas -- Discovering China's tropical rainforests : shifting approaches to people and nature in the late twentieth century / Michael Hathaway -- Nature, state, and conservation in the Danube delta : turning fishermen into outlaws / Stefan Dorondel and Veronica Mitroi.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Case studies.
;
History.
DOI:
10.4324/9781315195636
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315195636
