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- Title
A DEATH-DEFYING ATTEMPT TO ARTICULATE A COHERENT DEFINITION OF ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY.
- Authors
Weiner, Douglas R.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the concept of environmental history. The author discusses difficulties in defining environmental history and notes that the discipline developed through the influence of activism and is related to scientific ecology. He comments on the elitism of activists in the Soviet Union in the 1930s and notes natural conservation policies of Nazi Germany. The Bolsheviks in Russia promoted a form of serfdom using collective farms, while Zionist settlers in Palestine confiscated land from Arabs for afforestation. The author suggests environmental historians should establish models for the ecological functioning of civilizations.
- Subjects
SOVIET Union; ENVIRONMENTAL history; NATURAL resource policy; CONSERVATION of natural resources -- Government policy; AFFORESTATION; ACTIVISM; COLLECTIVE farms
- Publication
Ab Imperio, 2008, Issue 4, p30
- ISSN
2166-4072
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/imp.2008.0058