Ebook: Common ground: integrating the social and environmental in history

Breaking down borders : integrating the social and environmental in history / Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud and Stephen Mosley -- Angling and nature : environment, leisure, class and culture in Briain 1750-1975 / Richard Coopey and Tim Shakesheff -- Les pratiques de pêche à la ligne en France (c. 1870-c. 1930) : aux origines d'une conscience environnementale / Jean-Francois Malange -- Seaside tourism and environmental history / John K. Walton -- Le village et le bois : la perception de la nature et de la forêt à travers les délits forestiers en Guyenne au XVIIIe siècle / Philippe Cremieu-Alcan -- "One to sit among the dandelions, the other to organise the docks" : la question de l'union de l'environnemental et du social en Angleterre au XIXe siècle / Charles-Francois Mathis -- Nature conservation and the German labour movement : the Touristenverein die Naturfreunde as a bridge between social and environmental history / Ute Hasenöhrl -- Main-d'œuvre agricole et produits toxiques aux États-Unis : la mobilisation des campesinos mexicains et mexicains-américains au Texas (1966-1986) / Lucienne Néraud -- "How can any community be expected to accept such a scar?" : the movement against destruction and environmental activism in postwar Baltimore / Robert Gioielli -- Forests in conflict : rural populations and the advent of modern forestry in pre-industrial Germany, 1760-1860 / Richard Hölzl -- Livestock diseases, racial politics and veterinary medicine in South Africa c. 1870-1920 / Karen Brown -- Farming salmon in a crowded wilderness : exploring the history of aquaculture science in British Columbia, Canada / Stephen Bocking -- The federation drought of 1895-1903, El Niño and society in Australia / Don Garden -- Histories of fire on South Africa's Cape peninsula / Simon Pooley -- Energy consumption in Madrid, 1561 to c. 1860 / José Ubaldo Benados Sanz [and others] -- Protecting industry and commodifying the environment : the great transformation of French pollution regulation, 1700-1840 / Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Thomas Le Roux -- Le rôle du social dans le développement de l'assainissement des villes de province françaises fin XIXe-milieu XXe siècle / Stéphanie Frioux.;Today's environmental problems - climate change, loss of biodiversity, polluted air, land, and water - all have their origins to a greater or lesser extent in how we have lived, played and worked. At a time when societies are confronted Other the often dramatic consequences of past choices made in the fields of energy, technology, industry, agriculture, urbanisation and consumption, we need a history that casts more light on the ways in which unsustainable human-nature relationships came into ...