Earth, air, fire, water : humanistic studies of the environment /
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Amherst :
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Table of Contents:
- The new environmentalisms / Jill Ker Conway, Kenneth Keniston, and Leo Marx
- As the world runs out of breath: metaphorical perspectives on the heavens and the atmosphere in the ancient world / Gregory Nagy
- Climate and history: lessons from the Great Plains / Donald Worster
- Consumed by either fire or fire: a prolegomenon to anthropogenic fire / Stephen J. Pyne
- Only a world perspective is significant: settlement frontiers and property rights in early modern world history / John F. Richards
- Environmentalism and Indian peoples / Richard White
- Indigenous rights, environmental protection, and the struggle over forest resources in the Amazon: the case of the Brazilian Kayapo / Terence Turner
- Grassroots environmental activism: the toxics movement and directions for social change / Barbara Epstein
- Russian environmental movements / Oleg N. Yanitsky
- Gender and environmental action / Bina Agarwal
- Gender, environment, and nature: two episodes in feminist politics / Jill Ker Conway and Yaakov Garb
- Modernity and the environment as a public issue in today's Russia / Anton Struchkov
- Modernity and literary theory / Louis Menand
- Environmental degradation and the ambiguous social role of science and technology / Leo Marx.
