Nature’s End

1. Making the Environment Historical — An Introduction
Sverker Sörlin, Paul Warde

Part I. The Rise of the Environmental

2. Imperialism, Intellectual Networks, and Environmental Change; Unearthing the Origins and Evolution of Global Environmental History
Richard Grove, Vinita Damodaran

3. Separation, Proprietorship and Community in the History of Conservation
William M. Adams

4. The Environmental History of Pre-industrial Agriculture in Europe
Paul Warde

5. The Global Warming That Did Not Happen: Historicizing Glaciology and Climate Change
Sverker Sörlin

6. Genealogies of the Ecological Moment: Planning, Complexity and the Emergence of ‘the Environment’ as Politics in West Germany, 1949–1982
Holger Nehring

Part II. History and the Environmental Sciences

7. The Environmental History of Mountain Regions
Robert A. Dodgshon

8. Interdisciplinary Conversations: The Collective Model
Alistair Hamilton, Fiona Watson, Althea Davies, Nick Hanley

9. New Science for Sustainability in an Ancient Land
Libby Robin

Part III. Making Space: Environments and Their Contexts

10. 54, 40 or Fight: Writing Within and Across Borders in North American Environmental History
Matthew Evenden, Graeme Wynn

11. Modernity and the Politics of Waste in Britain
Tim Cooper

12. Why Intensify? The Outline of a Theory of the Institutional Causes Driving Long-Term Changes in Chinese Farming and the Consequent Modifications to the Environment
Mark Elvin

13. Reconsidering Climate and Causality: Case Studies from Colonial Mexico
Georgina Endfield

Part IV. ‘Things Human’

14. Destinies and Decisions: Taking the Life-World Seriously in Environmental History
Kirsten Hastrup

15. Afterword
Peter Burke

Avainsanat: History, History of Science, Social History, Cultural History, Environmental Science and Engineering, Environment, general, Historiography and Method