Conservation's Roots

Managing for Sustainability in Preindustrial Europe, 1100-1800

Conservation's Roots
Paul Warde, Abigail Dowling, Richard Keyser
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 362pg
1 Jun 2020 UK
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9781789206920
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The ideas and practices that comprise "conservation" are often assumed to have arisen within the last two centuries. However, while conservation today has been undeniably entwined with processes of modernity, its historical roots run much deeper. Considering a variety of preindustrial European settings, this book assembles case studies from the medieval and early modern eras to demonstrate that practices like those advocated by modern conservationists were far more widespread and intentional than is widely acknowledged. As the first book-length treatment of the subject, Conservation's Roots provides broad social, historical, and environmental context for the emergence of the nineteenth-century conservation movement.
"The essays in Conservation's Roots represent a thoughtful and compelling contribution to the field. They continue the scholarly conversation about the importance of pre-modern history to understanding sustainability, conservation, and the degrees to which people have both influenced their environments and understood the scale and import of their interventions." Ellen Arnold, Ohio Wesleyan University"This collection is valuable and timely, with fresh insights in abundance. It will serve as an excellent reader for students and scholars of environmental history, as both a contribution to scholarship in its own right and a point of entry into the specialist literature." Angus J L Winchester, Lancaster University
Abigail P. Dowling is an Assistant Professor of History at Mercer University. Richard Keyser is a Senior Lecturer in the Legal Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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ISBN-13: 9781789206920
Published: 1 Jun 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 362

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