Ecology, Climate, and Empire: Colonialism and Global Environmental History, 1400-1940
By Richard H. Grove (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) This collection of essays from a pioneering scholar in the field of environmental history vividly demonstrates that concerns about climate change are far from being a uniquely modern phenomenon. Grove traces the origins of present-day environmental debates about soil erosion, deforestation and climate change in the writings of … Continued