Trading Environments
Frontiers, Commercial Knowledge and Environmental Transformation, 1750-1990
This volume examines dynamic interactions between the calculative and speculative practices of commerce and the fruitfulness, variability, materiality, liveliness and risks of nature. It does so in diverse environments caught up in new trading relationships forged on and through frontiers for agriculture, forestry, mining and fishing. Historical resource frontiers are understood in terms of commercial knowledge systems organized as projects to transform landscapes and environments. The book asks: how were environments traded, and with what environmental and landscape consequences? How have environments been engineered, standardized and transf…
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Weitere Autoren: Dix, Andreas (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-317-39161-6
- EAN: 9781317391616
- Produktnummer: 19570343
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 330 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'211 KB
- Abbildungen: 21 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 20 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 1 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 5 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Gordon M. Winder is Professor of Economic Geography and an Affiliated Professor at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU-Munich.Andreas Dix is Professor for Historical Geography, Institute of Geography, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg.
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