Overview

The fifth volume in the reader series, 'Themes in Environmental History'. Comprising essays selected from Environment and History and Environmental Values, these inexpensive paperbacks address important aspects of environmental history through theoretical essays and case studies. The readers are attracting increasing interest from course-organisers. Trees addresses the roots of environmental history in forest history, offering a substantial section on forestry practice and ideology and the power-relations that have been and continue to be played out in global forests. While histories of forests and forestry have at times, by focus on the woods, obscured our vision of the trees, this volume contains several essays about the nurturing of specific trees, from street trees to penal planting. A theme that runs through many of the essays is the psycho-social significance of trees, from nationalism to legend, imperialism to post-modern uncertainty; trees can be aligned with identity, power, betrayal or redemption.The human relationship with trees that Dargavel and Johann have figured as one of 'science and hope' is an arena for endlessly diversified construction and negotiation, experiment and experience.

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Author:   Sarah Johnson
Publisher:   White Horse Press
Imprint:   White Horse Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.585kg
ISBN:  

9781874267881

ISBN 10:   187426788
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   01 March 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction. Sarah Johnson PERCEPTIONS 'The holy property of the entirety of the people': The Struggle for the 'German Forest' in Prussia, 1871-1914. Jeffrey K. Wilson The Attitude of Kautilya to Aranya. Rita Ghosh Ray FOREST CHANGE - LONG VIEWS Down by the Riverside: The Disappearing Bottomland Hardwood Forest of Southeastern North America. Mikko Saikku Humans and Forests in Pre-colonial Southeast Asia. Anthony Reid PLANTING Prehistory of Southern African Forestry: From Vegetable Garden to Tree Plantation. Kate B. Showers Tree Planting in Canterbury, New Zealand, 1850-1910. Paul Star Campaigning for Street Trees, Sydney Botanic Gardens, 1890s-1920s. Jodi Frawley Trees of Gold and Men Made Good? Grand Visions and Early Experiments in Penal Forestry in New South Wales, 1913-1938. Benedict Taylor FORESTRY Practice Histories of Forestry: Ideas, Networks and Silences. Phil McManus Lesniki and Leskhozy: Life and Work in Russia's Northern Forests. Dominique Moran Working in the Mangroves and Beyond: Scientific Forestry and the Labour Question in Early Colonial Tanzania. Thaddeus Sunseri Constructedness and Uncertainty Forestation and its Discontents: The Invention of an Uncertain Landscape in Southwestern France, 1850-Present. Samuel Temple Listening to the Birds: A Pragmatic Proposal for Forestry. Nicole Klenk How Terms Shape Forests: 'Niederwald', 'Mittelwald' and 'Hochwald', and their Interaction with Forest Development in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland. Matthias Burgi Power, Negotiation and Conflict Valuation Contests over the Commoditisation of the Moabi Tree in South-Eastern Cameroon. Sandra Veuthey and Jean-Francois Gerber Betrayal or 'Business as Usual'? Access to Forest Resources in the Nepal Terai. Deb Ranjan Sinha Breaking New Ground? Gifford Pinchot and the Birth of 'Empire Forestry' in the Philippines, 1900-1905. Greg Bankoff

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