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Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon.
Author : Bernhard Gissibl,
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,84 MB
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0857455257
Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon.
Author : Bernhard Gissibl
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0857455273
National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of these ecological and political systems cannot be understood as a simple reaction to mounting environmental problems, nor can it be explained by the spread of environmental sensibilities. Shifting the focus from the usual emphasis on national parks in the United States, this volume adopts an historical and transnational perspective on the global geography of protected areas and its changes over time. It focuses especially on the actors, networks, mechanisms, arenas, and institutions responsible for the global spread of the national park and the associated utilization and mobilization of asymmetrical relationships of power and knowledge, contributing to scholarly discussions of globalization and the emergence of global environmental institutions and governance.
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Author : Margrit Pernau
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 22,91 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0198745532
Traces the history of the concepts of civility and civilization in nineteenth-century Europe and Asia and explores why and how emotions were an asset in civilizing peoples and societies - their control and management, but also their creation and their ascription to different societies and social groups.
Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 40,30 MB
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0143122010
Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think this is the most violent age ever seen. Yet as bestselling author Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true.
Author : Richard J. Schneider
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 34,31 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1571139605
7: Nature and the Origins of American Civilization in Cape Cod -- Part IV. America's Destiny and Ecological Succession -- 8: Thoreau and Manifest Destiny -- Works Cited -- Index
Author : Kavita Philip
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813533612
Annotation "An interdisciplinary exploration of science, nature, and race in colonial India."
Author : W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 19,59 MB
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0674737660
Pulitzer Prize Finalist Silver Gavel Award Finalist “A sobering history of how American communities and institutions have relied on torture in various forms since before the United States was founded.” —Los Angeles Times “That Americans as a people and a nation-state are violent is indisputable. That we are also torturers, domestically and internationally, is not so well established. The myth that we are not torturers will persist, but Civilizing Torture will remain a powerful antidote in confronting it.” —Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell “Remarkable...A searing analysis of America’s past that helps make sense of its bewildering present.” —David Garland, author of Peculiar Institution Most Americans believe that a civilized state does not torture, but that belief has repeatedly been challenged in moments of crisis at home and abroad. From the Indian wars to Vietnam, from police interrogation to the War on Terror, US institutions have proven far more amenable to torture than the nation’s commitment to liberty would suggest. Civilizing Torture traces the history of debates about the efficacy of torture and reveals a recurring struggle to decide what limits to impose on the power of the state. At a time of escalating rhetoric aimed at cleansing the nation of the undeserving and an erosion of limits on military power, the debate over torture remains critical and unresolved.
Author : Patrick Kupper
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1782383743
The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book. Unlike Yellowstone Park, which embodied close cooperation between state-supported conservation and public recreation, the Swiss park put in place an extraordinarily strong conservation program derived from a close alliance between the state and scientific research. This deliberate reinterpretation of the American idea of the national park was innovative and radical, but its consequences were not limited to Switzerland. The Swiss park became the prime example of a “scientific national park,” thereby influencing the course of national parks worldwide.
Author : Howard L. Kaye
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429776926
This book offers a new account of Freud’s work by reading him as the social theorist and philosopher he always aspired to be, and not as the medical scientist he publicly claimed to be. In doing so, the author demonstrates that’s Freud’s social, moral, and cultural thought constitutes the core of his life’s work as a theorist, and is the thread that binds his voluminous writings together: from his earliest essays on the neuroses, to his foundational writings on dreams and sexuality, and to his far-ranging reflections on art, religion, and the dynamics of culture. Returning to the fundamental questions and concerns that animate Freud’s work - the nature of evil; the origins of religion, morality, and tradition; and the looming threat of resurgent barbarism - Freud as a Social and Cultural Theorist provides the first systematic re-examination of Freud’s social and cultural thought in more than a generation. As such, it will be of interest to social and cultural theorists, social philosophers, intellectual and cultural historians, and those with interests in psychoanalysis and its origins.