Science and Nature
Shortland, Michael. 1993. Science and Nature: essays in the history of the environmental sciences (Oxford: British Society for the History of Science), 291 pages.
ISBN 0-906450-08-x
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“Science and Nature is an excellent collection of essays. It provides a very broad overview of current scholarship in environmental history. Together these essays provide compelling evidence that environmental history is a lively area of study. The volume also suggests that there remain many fruitful areas for future research.”
– Journal of the History of Biology
“No one interested in the history of ecology should long delay reading this volume. In particular, the essays of Bocking, Cittadino, Kingsland and Kwa collectively represent a substantial addition to our knowledge and understanding of the history of mainstream ecological science in the twentieth century.”
– BJHS
Essays in this volume “reveal just how complex are the factors that make up a political decision.” A “valuable contribution”
– Technology and Culture
Table of Contents
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page |
author | title |
| i | front matter | |
| vii | Shortland, Michael | Foreword |
| 01 | Bowler, Peter | Science and the environment: New agendas for the history of science? |
| 23 | Feldman, Theodore S. | The ancient climate in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century |
| 41 | Sheail, John | Pollution and the protection of inland fisheries in inter-war Britain |
| 57 | Boon, Timothy | The smoke menace: Cinema, sponsorship and the social relations of science in 1937 |
| 89 | Bocking, Stephen | Conserving nature and building a science: British ecologists and the origins of the Nature Conservancy |
| 115 | Robin, Libby | Of desert and watershed: The rise of ecological consciousness in Victoria, Australia |
| 151 | Kingsland, Sharon E. | An elusive science: Ecological enterprise in the Southwestern United States |
| 181 | Palladino, Paolo | On ‘environmentalism’: The origins of debates over policy for pest-control research in America, 1960-1975 |
| 213 | Kwa, Chunglin | Radiation ecology, systems ecology and the management of the environment |
| 251 | Cittadino, Eugene | The failed promise of human ecology |
| 285 | List of contributors | |
| 287 | Index of names |