The vortex : an environmental history of the modern world /

The vortex : an environmental history of the modern world /

"Environmental challenges are defining the twenty-first century. To fully understand ongoing debates about our current crises--climate change, loss of biological diversity, pollution, extinction, resource woes--means revisiting their origins, in all their complexity. With this ambitious, highly...

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Main Author: Uekötter, Frank, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh : The University of Pittsburgh Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Human ecology > History.
Human beings > Effect of environment on > History.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > History.
World history.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Essentials. Potosí : rich in metals
  • Sugar : the new organic
  • The Canal du Midi : the great mobilization
  • Sustainable forestry : the state of the woodlands
  • Shipbreaking in Chittagong : leftovers
  • Part II.
  • Appropriations. The land title : to own a place
  • Breadfruit : food choices
  • Guano : the fertility business
  • Whaling : resources at sea
  • United Fruit : the great corporate banana
  • Part III.
  • Irreversible.
  • The dodo : species that perish
  • The boll weevil : the nemesis of monoculture
  • The little Grand Canyon : the perils of erosion
  • Cane toads :immigrants on the march
  • Saudi Arabia : the state of resources
  • Part IV. Technology takes command.
  • London smog : in the age of coal
  • The water closet : producing cleanliness
  • Chicago's slaughterhouses : animals on the line
  • Synthetic nitrogen : farming on steroids
  • Air-conditioning : engineering the climate
  • Part V. Ruptures.
  • Cholera : the nature of disease
  • Baedeker : guidance for seekers
  • Gandhi's salt : to change the world
  • The 1970 Tokyo Resolution : international conventions
  • The 1976 Tangshan earthquake : somewhat natural disasters
  • Part VI. The final reserves
  • Kruger National Park : reserved nature
  • Eucalyptus : supertrees
  • Hybrid corn : breeding ambitions
  • Aswan Dam : damming and developing
  • The rice-eating rubber tree : speaking of dependence
  • Part VII.
  • The age of catastrophe
  • Holodomor : The politics of hunger
  • The Pontine Marshes : fighting for space
  • The chemurgy movement : the business of biofuels
  • Autobahn : The endsieg of automobilism
  • The pine roots campaign : the totality of war
  • Part VIII. The great entrenchment
  • Battery chicken : the industrialized animal
  • Lucky Dragon No. 5 : atoms without limits
  • DDT : learning from a book
  • Torrey Canyon : coping with technological failure
  • Plastic gags : ephemeralia
  • Coda : the pandemic
  • The mess we're in : an inconclusive conclusion.

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