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Can I read International Review of Environmental History: Volume 4, Issue 2, 2018 on EtoBox?

International Review of Environmental History: Volume 4, Issue 2, 2018 by James Beattie is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is International Review of Environmental History: Volume 4, Issue 2, 2018 about?

International Review of Environmental History takes an interdisciplinary and global approach to environmental history. It encourages scholars to think big and to tackle the challenges of writing environmental histories across different methodologies, nations, and time-scales. The journal embraces interdisciplinary, comparative and transnational methods, while still recognising the importance of locality in understanding these global processes.-Contents:-• Disasters fast and slow: The temporality of hazards in environmental history – Fiona Williamson and Chris Courtney• Uncertainty and the emotional landscape of drought – Rebecca Jones• Typhoons and droughts: Food shortages and famine in the Philippines since the seventeenth century – James F. Warren• Malaya’s greatest menace? Slow-onset disaster and the muddy politics of British Malaya, c. 1900–50 – Fiona Williamson• The tinderbox city: The industrialisation of fire disasters in Hankou, China, 1849–1944 – Chris Courtney• The slow, the quick and the dead: Environment, politics and temporality in the Henan famine, 1942–43 – Mark Baker

Who reads International Review of Environmental History: Volume 4, Issue 2, 2018?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
James Beattie
Publisher
ANU Press
Published
2018
Language
EN
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, The Environment, Stem

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