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Desert Edens

Author : Philipp Lehmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691239347
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Desert Edens written by Philipp Lehmann and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-12-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries From the 1870s to the mid-twentieth century, European explorers, climatologists, colonial officials, and planners were avidly interested in large-scale projects that might actively alter the climate. Uncovering this history, Desert Edens looks at how arid environments and an increasing anxiety about climate in the colonial world shaped this upsurge in ideas about climate engineering. From notions about the transformation of deserts into forests to Nazi plans to influence the climates of war-torn areas, Philipp Lehmann puts the early climate change debate in its environmental, intellectual, and political context, and considers the ways this legacy reverberates in the present climate crisis. Lehmann examines some of the most ambitious climate-engineering projects to emerge in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Confronted with the Sahara in the 1870s, the French developed concepts for a flooding project that would lead to the creation of a man-made Sahara Sea. In the 1920s, German architect Herman Sörgel proposed damming the Mediterranean in order to geoengineer an Afro-European continent called “Atlantropa,” which would fit the needs of European settlers. Nazi designs were formulated to counteract the desertification of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Despite ideological and technical differences, these projects all incorporated and developed climate change theories and vocabulary. They also combined expressions of an extreme environmental pessimism with a powerful technological optimism that continue to shape the contemporary moment. Focusing on the intellectual roots, intended effects, and impact of early measures to modify the climate, Desert Edens investigates how the technological imagination can be inspired by pressing fears about the environment and civilization.

Green Lands for White Men

Author : Meredith McKittrick
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226834689
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Green Lands for White Men written by Meredith McKittrick and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How an audacious environmental engineering plan fanned white settlers’ visions for South Africa, stoked mistrust in scientific experts, and gave rise to the Apartheid state. In 1918, South Africa’s climate seemed to be drying up. White farmers claimed that rainfall was dwindling, while nineteenth-century missionaries and explorers had found riverbeds, seashells, and other evidence of a verdant past deep in the Kalahari Desert. Government experts insisted, however, that the rains weren’t disappearing; the land, long susceptible to periodic drought, had been further degraded by settler farmers’ agricultural practices—an explanation that white South Africans rejected. So when the geologist Ernest Schwarz blamed the land itself, the farmers listened. Schwarz held that erosion and topography had created arid conditions, that rainfall was declining, and that agriculture was not to blame. As a solution, he proposed diverting two rivers to the Kalahari’s basins, creating a lush country where white South Africans could thrive. This plan, which became known as the Kalahari Thirstland Redemption Scheme, was rejected by most scientists. But it found support among white South Africans who worried that struggling farmers undermined an image of racial superiority. Green Lands for White Men explores how white agriculturalists in southern Africa grappled with a parched and changing terrain as they sought to consolidate control over a Black population. Meredith McKittrick’s timely history of the Redemption Scheme reveals the environment to have been central to South African understandings of race. While Schwarz’s plan was never implemented, it enjoyed sufficient support to prompt government research into its feasibility, and years of debate. McKittrick shows how white farmers rallied around a plan that represented their interests over those of the South African state and delves into the reasons behind this schism between expert opinion and public perception. This backlash against the predominant scientific view, McKittrick argues, displayed the depth of popular mistrust in an expanding scientific elite. A detailed look at the intersection of a settler society, climate change, white nationalism, and expert credibility, Green Lands for White Men examines the reverberations of a scheme that ultimately failed but influenced ideas about race and the environment in South Africa for decades to come.

Desert Eden (Book 3 Devereux Series)

Author : Patricia Grasso
Publisher : Lachesis Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1927555906
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Desert Eden (Book 3 Devereux Series) written by Patricia Grasso and published by Lachesis Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

This Desert Eden

Author : Gretchen Lee Coles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book This Desert Eden written by Gretchen Lee Coles and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

King Tiger

Author : Rudy V. Busto
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826327915
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book King Tiger written by Rudy V. Busto and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Right now we look like a cricket. What is a cricket? King of the Insects; a little, tiny animal. All the cricket can do is [say] 'cricket, cricket, cricket.' Just a noise, that's all. But you know, if that cricket gets in the ear of the lion and scratches inside, there is nothing the lion can do. There is nothing; there is no way the lion can use his claws and jaws to destroy the cricket. The more the lion scratches himself the deeper the cricket goes. . . ."--Reies López Tijerina, 1971 Throughout his career in New Mexican land grant politics, Reies Tijerina frequently used this fable to inspire persistence in the face of impossible odds. As the leader of a grassroots Hispano land rights organization, the Alianza Federal de Mercedes Reales (The Federal Alliance of Land Grants), Tijerina has made an indelible imprint on New Mexico's Hispano culture. King Tiger details Tijerina's life and efforts--those real, rumored, and mythologized--in the first systematic study of the origin of his political ideas. Rudy Busto shows how one of Tijerina's particularly powerful mystical visions led him to northern New Mexico to fight to restore land to those who lost it during various nineteenth-century land grant title conflicts. More than three decades after the infamous Tierra Amarilla County courthouse raid, Tijerina remains an important touchstone for all New Mexicans. In his life and activism are found the interdependent issues of land, water, language, economic development, sovereignty, political power, and rights to cultural formation in the Southwest.

The Silver Branch

Author : Dayle Carnahan McKinney
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480874558
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Silver Branch written by Dayle Carnahan McKinney and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a strange night of falling stars, Aria is called to learn who she is and why. Coerced by a grandmother to leave her desert home in California, Aria embarks on an adventure of discovery. Guided and transported by the most colorful of curiosities, back (and back) in time she travels, and along the way, comes face to face with those who forged her family. She goes to the Beginning of Things—not the Beginning of Time, but the Beginning of Things, as they exist in Aria’s world. Her beliefs and assumptions are crushed beneath her wandering pilgrim feet as she leaves the modern era behind in search of something she didn’t even know she needed. Escorted and cajoled by kings, outlaws, druids, and damsels, Aria is made aware of truths long hidden. Lost in a land of myth, she is made fully dependent on a long line of grandparents, both kind and diabolical, who ensure her safe passage back to California after sojourns in France, Scotland, England, and Ireland, where the Beginning of Things takes place. People who share Aria’s rare Rh-negative blood populate these ancient lands. These are people who the Watchers watch. “The Silver Branch is an imaginative ride through history written with engaging wit. Aria is an enchanting character that takes us on an exciting journey through many different modes of travel to a magical, satisfying end, which is really the beginning.” —Carla Harrower Landscape Contractor “In the Silver Branch, Aria is called to learn who she is...and why. And on a strange night of falling stars, her journey begins. Guided and transported by the most colorful of curiosities, back (and back) in time she travels and along the way comes face to face with those who forged her family...and herself. Historical and mythical, Aria’s story will compel readers to want to hear the tales and see the faces etched along the branches of their own family tree.” —Maria Pritchard Author and Retired Educator The story is a journey through intimate glimpses painting a history of cultures subtly told in generational sequences and family tales. It never lets go of being in the present, skeptical while knowing that reality and magic might both exist. The reader is taken along it all, as if told a magical story, which despite historical connections between the mysteries, it really is. The Silver Branch tells a story in changing layers more parallel than mixing, and as far-away magical as the nearness of home. —Jonathan Beck M.D.

Desert Eden

Author : Patricia Grasso
Publisher : Dell Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780440213048
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Desert Eden written by Patricia Grasso and published by Dell Publishing Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En route to France to marry the Comte de Beaulieu, a man she has never seen, Heather Deveraux is abducted by a band of pirates and becomes the prize of their notorious Ottoman prince. Original.

Liquid Empire

Author : Corey Ross
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691261237
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Liquid Empire written by Corey Ross and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold new account of European imperialism told through the history of water In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a handful of powerful European states controlled more than a third of the land surface of the planet. These sprawling empires encompassed not only rainforests, deserts, and savannahs but also some of the world’s most magnificent rivers, lakes, marshes, and seas. Liquid Empire tells the story of how the waters of the colonial world shaped the history of imperialism, and how this imperial past still haunts us today. Spanning the major European empires of the period, Corey Ross describes how new ideas, technologies, and institutions transformed human engagements with water and how the natural world was reshaped in the process. Water was a realm of imperial power whose control and distribution were closely bound up with colonial hierarchies and inequalities—but this vital natural resource could never be fully tamed. Ross vividly portrays the efforts of officials, engineers, fisherfolk, and farmers to exploit water, and highlights its crucial role in the making and unmaking of the colonial order. Revealing how the legacies of empire have persisted long after colonialism ebbed away, Liquid Empire provides needed historical perspective on the crises engulfing the world’s waters, particularly in the Global South, where billions of people are faced with mounting water shortages, rising flood risks, and the relentless depletion of sea life.

Reinventing Eden

Author : Carolyn Merchant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415644259
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Eden written by Carolyn Merchant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western culture from Columbus' voyages to today's tropical island retreats. Few narratives are so powerful - and, as Carolyn Merchant shows, so misguided and destructive - as the dream of recapturing a lost paradise. A sweeping account of these quixotic endeavors by one of America's leading environmentalists, Reinventing Eden traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations in shopping malls, theme parks and gated communities. With eloquence and insight, Merchant shows how the drive to conquer nature and to explore and settle the globe, springs from this utopian pastoral impulse throughout Western history. Time and again, human manipulation of the environment is our downfall: Eden is achieved by fencing off pristine beauty in national parks and wildlife preserves, while leaving the majority of the earth in ruins. Challenging both narratives, Merchant argues that the green veneer of city-park conservation has become a cover for the corruption of the earth and the neglect of its environment. Reinventing Eden is a bold new way to think about the earth that includes green political parties, sustainable development and a partnership between humans and earth that is nothing short of an ecological revolution.

The Metropolitan

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Metropolitan written by and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Earth That Modernism Built

Author : Kenny Cupers
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477329838
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book The Earth That Modernism Built written by Kenny Cupers and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2024-11-26 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis. The Earth That Modernism Built traces the rise of planetary design to an imperialist discourse about the influence of the earthly environment on humanity. Kenny Cupers argues that to understand how the earth became an object of design, we need to radically shift the terms of analysis. Rather than describing how new design ideas and practices traveled and transformed people and places across the globe, this book interrogates the politics of life and earth underpinning this process. It demonstrates how approaches to modern housing, landscape design, and infrastructure planning are indebted to an understanding of planetary and human ecology fueled by settler colonialism and imperial ambition. Cupers draws from both canonical and unknown sources and archives in Germany, Namibia, and Poland to situate Wilhelmine and Weimar design projects in an expansive discourse about the relationship between soil, settlement, and race. This reframing reveals connections between colonial officials planning agricultural hinterlands, garden designers proselytizing geopolitical theory, soil researchers turning to folklore, and Bauhaus architects designing modern communities according to functionalist principles. Ultimately, The Earth That Modernism Built shows how the conviction that we can design our way out of environmental crisis is bound to exploitative and divisive ways of inhabiting the earth.

New under the Sun

Author : Dr. Netta Cohen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520397258
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book New under the Sun written by Dr. Netta Cohen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New under the Sun explores Zionist perceptions of—and responses to—Palestine’s climate. From the rise of the Zionist movement in the late 1890s to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Netta Cohen traces the production of climactic knowledge through a rich archive that draws from medicine and botany, technology and economics, and architecture and planning. As Cohen convincingly argues, this knowledge was not only shaped by Jewish settlers’ Eurocentric views but was also indebted to colonial practices and institutions. Zionists’ claims to the land were often based on the construction of Jewish settlers as natives, even while this was complicated by their alienated responses to Palestine’s climate. New under the Sun offers a highly original environmental lens on the ways in which Zionism’s spatial ambitions and racial fantasies transformed the lives of humans and nonhumans in Palestine.

Thinking Russia's History Environmentally

Author : Catherine Evtuhov
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805390279
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Russia's History Environmentally written by Catherine Evtuhov and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2023 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians of Russia were relative latecomers to the field of environmental history. Yet, in the past decade, the exploration of Russian environmental history has burgeoned. Thinking Russia's History Environmentally showcases collaboration amongst an international set of scholars who focus on the contribution that the study of Russian environments makes to the global environmental field. Through discerning analysis of natural resources, the environment as a factor in historical processes such as industrialization, and more recent human-animal interactions, this volume challenges stereotypes of Russian history and inso doing, highlights the unexpected importance of Russian environments across a time framewell beyond the ecological catastrophes of the Soviet period.

Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution

Author : Anne O'Donnell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069120554X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution written by Anne O'Donnell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most histories of economic life explore how markets are built. This book looks instead at how they have been dismantled. Soon after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia, they began the process of transforming the economy, and indeed all of society, in accordance with communist ideology. Asserting their authority and creating a Soviet republic involved confiscating property and demolishing existing systems of exchanging goods. At a national level, industries like transport and banking were brought under state control. At the local level, everything from apartments to personal possessions were subject to seizure. In analyzing the confiscation of property and its redistribution, historian Anne O'Donnell focuses on the lived experience of revolution, drawing upon archival sources such as popular petitions, neighborhood meeting transcripts, audits of state agencies, and testimony in court cases. Telling the stories of both people who were dispossessed and the bureaucrats who inventoried and managed the property that now belonged to the state, O'Donnell reveals the making of an illiberal state, arguing that Soviet statecraft was built upon imperfect attempts to install new forms of valuation consistent with communist principles through chaotic property seizures. The work also offers a novel look at the everyday life of revolutionary Russia"--

Automotive Empire

Author : Andrew Denning
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501775375
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Automotive Empire written by Andrew Denning and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Automotive Empire, Andrew Denning uncovers how roads and vehicles began to transform colonial societies across Africa but rarely in the manner Europeans expected. Like seafaring ships and railroads, automobiles and roads were more than a mode of transport—they organized colonial spaces and structured the political, economic, and social relations of empire, both within African colonies and between colonies and the European metropole. European officials in French, Italian, British, German, Belgian, and Portuguese territories in Africa shared a common challenge—the transport problem. While they imagined that roads would radiate commerce and political hegemony by collapsing space, the pressures of constructing and maintaining roads rendered colonial administration thin, ineffective, and capricious. Automotive empire emerged as the European solution to the transport problem, but revealed weakness as much as it extended power. As Automotive Empire reveals, motor vehicles and roads seemed the ideal solution to the colonial transport problem. They were cheaper and quicker to construct than railroads, overcame the environmental limitations of rivers, and did not depend on the recruitment and supervision of African porters. At this pivotal moment of African colonialism, when European powers transitioned from claiming territories to administering and exploiting them, automotive empire defined colonial states and societies, along with the brutal and capricious nature of European colonialism itself.

Governing Climate

Author : Zeke Baker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520401328
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Governing Climate written by Zeke Baker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After decades of debate about global warming, the fact of the climate crisis is finally widely accepted. People at all scales—from the household to the global market—are attempting to govern climate to deal with its causes and impacts. Although the stakes are different now, governing climate is centuries old. In this book, Zeke Baker develops a genealogy of climate science that traces the relationship between those who have created knowledge of the climate and those who have attempted to gain power and govern society, right up to the present, historic moment. Baker draws together over two centuries of science, politics, and environmental change to demonstrate the "co-production" of climate knowledge and power-seeking activity, with a focus on the United States. This book provides a fresh account of contemporary issues transecting science and climate politics, specifically the rise of "climate security," and examines how climate science can either facilitate or reconcile the unequal distribution of power and resources.

No Return

Author : Rowan Dorin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691240922
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book No Return written by Rowan Dorin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Expulsion, Jews, and Usury: Trajectories of Christian Thought and Practice -- Inventing Expulsion in England, 1154-1272 -- Inventing Expulsion in France, 1144-1270 -- Canonizing Expulsion: The Second Council of Lyon, 1274 -- Disseminating Expulsion: Synods, Summas, and Sermons -- Emulating Expulsion: England and France, 1274-1306 -- Ignoring Expulsion: Episcopal Evasion and Papal Inaction, 1274-1400 -- Expanding (and Impeding) Expulsion: Jews, Usury, and Canon Law, 1300-1492 -- Conclusion.