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- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Copyright
- © 2010 Maney Publishing
- ISSN
- 2040-8153
- eISSN
- 1466-2035
- DOI
- 10.1179/lan.2010.11.2.85
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
l a n d s c a p e s (2010), 2, pp. 85–102 Swerker Sörlin and Paul Warde (eds), Nature’s End: History and the Environment (2009) Palgrave Macmillan, 368 pages, ISBN 9780230203464, £65. This is a good and readable book emanating from workshops and conferences over several years that provides a tour d’horizon of the relatively young academic discipline of ‘modern’ environmental history. Its collection of 13 chapters by 19 leading scholars has a coverage which touches all continents, a broad multi- disciplinarity including ecology, climate studies, environmental archaeology, anthropology, economic history, cultural history and historical geography, and a wide range of themes from European pre-industrial agriculture and historic Nordic climate change, and from the ethics of waste disposal in the West to institutional determinants on Chinese agriculture through the 2nd millennium AD and drought/dearth in Mexican history. Readers might well start with Peter Burke’s Afterword which provides both overview and framework. The editors’ agenda is set out in their Introduction – they seek to establish environmental history, largely in its post 1970s form (although several chapters look to earlier antecedents), as an important way of understanding the human/nature relationship. The title, Nature’s End, signifies no dystopian idealism
Journal
Landscapes – Taylor & Francis
Published: Oct 1, 2010