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urn:uuid:0ad5cd8b-bc43-4dea-9364-528be357748b 03 01 01 urn:uuid:0ad5cd8b-bc43-4dea-9364-528be357748b 15 9781912186822 06 10.3197/63831593227779.book DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:0ad5cd8b-bc43-4dea-9364-528be357748b 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63831593227779.book.pdf 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63831593227779.book.epub 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/product/entire-of-itself/ 1 B01 Milica Prokic 2 B01 Pavla Šimková 01 eng 00 367 03 12 HBG 10 HIS037000 20 islands 93 NHB 20 environmental history 12 HBTB 10 HIS054000 93 NHTB 12 HBTM 10 HIS057000 93 NHTM 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 03 03 <p><p>The study of islands is booming. Small wonder: islands have played a key role in the history of continents, have been crucial locales of state-making, have served dictatorships as sites of prison systems and have acted as frontiers and stepping stones of empires. However, the role that island environments have played in creating and shaping these histories has so far received little attention. To understand why an island became a penal colony, an atomic test site or a tourist destination we need to take a close look at its environmental peculiarities: its physical shape, its geology, its climate, its flora and fauna, and its position vis-à-vis other places. And to more deeply comprehend an island’s place in history we must consider the changing ways in which it was perceived, used, valued or dismissed, protected or mistreated over time.<break/>Through fourteen stories of islands and archipelagos from around the globe Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands showcases islands as dynamic entities that both shape history and are shaped by it. Covering time periods from antiquity to the present day, Entire of Itself? attempts a group portrait of this exceptional category of places in the context of environmental history. Exploring the intertwined temporal, material and identity layers of island environments, and their transformations in response to human endeavours of conservation, exploitation and experimentation, the contributions in this volume challenge the traditional center-periphery perspective, and instead take an island-centred approach, delving into both the islands’ own stories and their role in larger historical developments.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63831593227779.book_frontcover.png The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press https://www.whpress.co.uk/ Winwick, Cambs. 04 20240315 2024 02 WORLD 13 15 9781912186839 13 15 9781912186846 06 15 9781912186822 06 15 9781917813242 The White Horse Press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:03ecb260-44bb-4fb2-8d31-001d7da919eb 03 01 01 urn:uuid:03ecb260-44bb-4fb2-8d31-001d7da919eb 15 9781912186334 06 10.3197/9781912186334.book DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:03ecb260-44bb-4fb2-8d31-001d7da919eb 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/9781912186334.book.pdf 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2011/01/31/environmental-and-social-justice-in-the-city/ 1 B01 Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud 01 ORCID 0000-0002-2584-7684 2 B01 Richard Rodger 01 ORCID 0000-0002-4602-6471 01 eng 00 302 03 20 environmental injustice 10 HIS010000 12 TQ 12 HBTB 10 HIS049000 20 history 20 cities 12 HBG 10 SOC041000 20 Europe 20 discrimination 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 03 03 <p><p>The world is full of environmental injustices and inequalities, yet few European historians have tackled these subjects head on; nor have they explored their relationships with social inequalities. In this innovative collection of historical essays the contributors consider a range of past environmental injustices, spanning seven northern and western European countries and with several chapters adding a North American perspective. In addition to an introductory chapter that surveys approaches to this area of environmental history, individual chapters address inequalities in the city as regards water supply, air pollution, waste disposal, factory conditions, industrial effluents, fuel poverty and the administrative and legal arrangements that discriminated against segments of society.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/9781912186334.book_frontcover.jpg The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press https://www.whpress.co.uk/ Winwick, UK 04 20110131 2011 02 WORLD 13 15 9781874267614 06 15 9781912186334 The White Horse Press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:0838519e-4963-49c3-8902-ee814c501c75 03 01 01 urn:uuid:0838519e-4963-49c3-8902-ee814c501c75 15 9781917813037 06 10.63308/63897247289532.book DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:0838519e-4963-49c3-8902-ee814c501c75 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.63308/63897247289532.book.pdf 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2025/11/05/graspingsoil/ 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.63308/63897247289532.book.epub 1 B01 Emily Brownell 01 ORCID 0000-0001-8539-8270 2 A01 Cynthia Browne 3 A01 Amiel Bize 4 A01 Seth Denizen 01 ORCID 0000-0003-4587-8629 5 A01 Dotan Halevy 6 A01 Basil Ibrahim 7 A01 Brian Jones 8 A01 Paul Kurek 9 A01 Johannes Lehmann 10 A01 Tamar Novick 11 A01 Jayson Porter 12 A01 Steven Stoll 13 A01 Lulu Tessua 14 A12 Natasha Russell 01 eng 00 200 03 93 RNCB 12 RNCB 10 SCI088000 10 NAT045000 12 RNF 93 RNF 10 NAT038000 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 03 03 <p><p>Soil is a nearly ubiquitous presence in our lives, regardless of whether we spend much time noticing it. Soil holds worlds within itself and also builds other worlds; it devours and remakes things; it sustains life and gives cover to the dead. Grasping Soil is a collectively-authored syllabus and series of essays, all examining, with different inflections, the fundamental question: what comes into view when we ‘grasp’ soil as a vessel of human history and point of view for inquiry?</p><p>Part I is an interdisciplinary syllabus that traces the contours of a growing body of work in the humanities that uses soil as a bridge between human and more-than-human histories. The syllabus offers a template of readings, discussion questions and assignments with an accompanying website for easy access to the supporting materials. The essays that follow in Part 2 explore particular moments and locations in which communities have modified, depleted or remade soil to suit a particular need. In examining these engagements with soil, each essay provides a particular view on the social, political or economic conditions that they reflect and create. The essays range from mountain top mining in Appalachia to the construction of a load-bearing monolith in Nazi-era Berlin, and the layered, residual histories of agricultural projects in Tanzania. As these essays make clear, soil is a lively presence not an inert recipient of human desires and actions. It is a living and not always governable community with ever-changing stories to tell.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.63308/63897247289532.book_frontcover.jpg The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press https://www.whpress.co.uk/ Winwick, Cambs. 04 20260301 2026 02 WORLD 13 15 9781917813020 06 15 9781917813037 06 15 9781917813099 The White Horse Press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:7b590835-ce80-4b96-901f-4eddce9e36ca 03 01 01 urn:uuid:7b590835-ce80-4b96-901f-4eddce9e36ca 15 9781912186778 06 10.3197/63824846758018.book DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:7b590835-ce80-4b96-901f-4eddce9e36ca 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2023/03/03/pal/ 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63824846758018.book.pdf 1 B01 Viktor Pál 01 ORCID 0000-0003-1301-7517 2 B01 Tuomas Räsänen 01 ORCID 0000-0003-4288-2710 3 B01 Mikko Saikku 01 ORCID 0000-0002-4238-6912 01 eng 00 239 03 20 Greenwashing 12 HBJD 10 HIS044000 93 NHD 20 Finland 10 NAT011000 93 RNF 12 RNF 20 Conservation 20 Scandinavia 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ 03 03 <p><p>Finland has often been labelled a ‘green superpower’, lauded as one of the world’s cleanest and greenest countries. Nordic countries in general have tended to be idealised as ‘pristine and green’, in contrast to the rest of the rapidly contaminating world where the race for markets and profits has enormously accelerated consumption, imposing on the environment an alarming level of extraction and commerce, and a wide array of new and old forms of pollution. <break/>Environmental historians, however, can perceive that the reputed ‘greenness’ of the Nordic countries is partly an illusion. Authors in this volume argue that Finland, similarly to Denmark, Norway and Sweden, has evolved into a green superpower at the cost of considerable environmental problems. Ironically, Finland’s current leading position in sustainable development has been built on the heavy use of natural resources and by sacrificing ecosystem health. <break/>This volume thus seeks to acquaint the reader with many stories of long-lasting negative environmental impacts in and around Finland: old-growth forests have been replaced by intensive forest farming for lumber and pulp industries; most wetlands have been drained for agriculture, forest cultivation and peat extraction; wild animal populations have been decimated; and Finland today is confined to the south and west by arguably the most polluted sea in the world.<break/>There are lessons for the future to be learnt from Finland’s tendency to rest on the laurels of a positive environmental reputation built at least in part on myth. In the twenty-first century, the world badly needs less greenwashing and a truer commitment to green-ness.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63824846758018.book_frontcover.png The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press https://www.whpress.co.uk/ Winwick, Cambridgeshire, UK 04 20231001 2023 02 WORLD 13 15 9781912186761 06 15 9781912186778 The White Horse Press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:1f505df7-5d2d-4e6c-be45-c167f02576f6 03 01 01 urn:uuid:1f505df7-5d2d-4e6c-be45-c167f02576f6 15 9781912186877 06 10.3197/63853892508906.book DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:1f505df7-5d2d-4e6c-be45-c167f02576f6 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63853892508906.book.pdf 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2024/03/20/heritage-at-war/ 1 B01 Mark Dunkley 01 ORCID 0000-0001-7873-5857 2 B01 Lisa Mol 01 ORCID 0000-0001-5272-3671 3 B01 Anna Tulliach 01 ORCID 0000-0003-4993-7403 01 eng 00 238 03 10 ART059000 93 GLZ 20 Heritage 93 GTU 10 POL034000 20 War 20 Conflict 10 HIS027000 93 JWX 10 POL012000 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en 03 03 <p><p>The right of access to, and enjoyment of, cultural heritage is enshrined in human rights norms and the devastating effects of armed conflict on cultural heritage are well documented, with the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage having been an integral part of warfare throughout history. Culture now, once again, finds itself on war’s frontline.<break/>Marking the 70th anniversary of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, and in the current context of devastating conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan, among others, Heritage at War – Plan and Prepare brings together military, academic,and heritage practitioners’ voices from across the Euro-Atlantic, North Africa and the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific to explore how lessons learned from past experiences of conflict can inform approaches to the safeguarding of cultural heritage today. Emerging from and building upon an international conference held at the V&A Museum in February 2023, the book addresses how the military, the heritage sector and other stakeholders in Human Security can, and must, collaborate to give primacy to people and protect tangible and intangible cultural heritage under attack. <break/>The volume’s case studies highlight interdisciplinary efforts to protect heritage in conflict zones, drawing out guidance for those working in the Heritage Sector in these contexts, with specific relevance to those engaged in cultural heritage protection and those working in related interdisciplinary fields. Reviewing the historic relationship between heritage and armed conflict, and offering lessons for present-day practitioners, Heritage at War shows how, in different contexts, heritage can be a catalyst and target of conflict, an obstacle to stabilisation, and yet also a potential vector of peace-building and the return to normality.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63853892508906.book_frontcover.jpg The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press https://www.whpress.co.uk/ Winwick, Cambs. 04 20241015 2024 02 WORLD 13 15 9781912186860 06 15 9781912186877 The White Horse Press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:2786894e-899d-4572-a820-3ed787f4f3de 03 01 01 urn:uuid:2786894e-899d-4572-a820-3ed787f4f3de 15 9781912186723 06 10.3197/63817505877903.book DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:2786894e-899d-4572-a820-3ed787f4f3de 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63817505877903.book.pdf 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2022/11/25/mountsacred/ 1 A01 Jon Mathieu 01 eng 02 ger 00 157 03 12 HR 20 mountains 10 REL000000 20 religion 12 RN 10 SCI026000 20 environmental history 12 HBG 10 HIS037000 20 geography 20 cultural history 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 03 03 <p><p>Mount Kailash in Asia, the Black Hills in North America, Uluru in Australia: around the globe there are numerous mountains that have been and continue to be attributed sacredness. Worship of these mountains involves prayer, meditation and pilgrimage. Christianity, which for a long time showed little interest in nature, provides a foil to these practices and was one factor in the tensions that arose in the age of colonialism. Decolonisation and the 'ecological turn' changed the religious power of interpretation and gave discourses about sacred mountains new meaning. Globally, however, they remain an outstanding example of cultural diversity, also touching on issues of gender justice and environmental protection. A translation from the original German.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63817505877903.book_frontcover.png The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press https://www.whpress.co.uk/ Winwick, UK 04 20230515 2023 02 WORLD 13 15 9781912186716 06 15 9781912186723 The White Horse Press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:d6df9aac-1808-4206-81fe-720835586c83 03 01 01 urn:uuid:d6df9aac-1808-4206-81fe-720835586c83 15 9781912186976 06 10.63308/63891908548751.book DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:d6df9aac-1808-4206-81fe-720835586c83 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2025/03/10/movingdeserts/ 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.63308/6330863891908548751.book.pdf 1 A01 Greta Semplici 01 ORCID 0000-0002-1509-5650 01 eng 00 316 03 93 JBS 10 SOC026000 93 JBSL1 10 SOC008010 93 JPSL 10 SOC042000 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en 03 03 <p><p>Moving Deserts re-examines the concept of resilience, as applied in the development sector. It gives central stage to the voices, experiences, memories and everyday lives of the people whose resilience is the subject of much international attention and financial aid flows. Building a bridge between the perspectives of practitioners and local communities, Moving Deserts reveals a story about life, struggle and hope among Turkana herders, a story woven by following the movements and relations of the author's hosts and interlocutors during fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork. The volume argues that it is in their very mobility that the meaning of resilience resides: mobility as physical movements to reach ephemeral and unevenly spread resources; mobility as social connections to weave a social fabric that also works as safety net; mobility as fluid identities, never static but plastic, capable of taking on new shapes and adapting to changes. The drylands and their inhabitants, largely pastoral populations, are the spine of the book. Drylands often fall in the imaginary of the remote, the deserted, the unproductive, a powerful imaginary rooted in romantic narratives, as well as in political and economic interests. At a time of rising alarm about climate change, mass migrations and energy requirements, drylands are returning to the international stage with a focus on building resilience. This book asks what we can learn about ‘pastoral development’, currently discussed in the international development regime under the label of resilience, by switching perspective and following pastoralists’ lived experiences?</p></p> 04 01 https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.63308/6330863891908548751.book_frontcover.jpg The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press https://www.whpress.co.uk/ Winwick, Cambs., UK 04 20251015 2025 02 WORLD 13 15 9781912186969 06 15 9781912186976 The White Horse Press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:4cc9e4e8-9bcd-4b55-9acf-2a42b65b1816 03 01 01 urn:uuid:4cc9e4e8-9bcd-4b55-9acf-2a42b65b1816 15 9781912186945 06 10.63308/63878687083054.book DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:4cc9e4e8-9bcd-4b55-9acf-2a42b65b1816 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2025/03/04/meam-2/ 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.63308/63878687083054.book.pdf 1 B01 Andrea Petitt 01 ORCID 0000-0003-3811-0531 2 B01 Anke Tonnaer 01 ORCID 0000-0003-0804-369X 3 B01 Véronique Servais 01 ORCID 0000-0002-9006-685X 4 B01 Catrien Notermans 01 ORCID 0009-0009-3354-0226 5 B01 Natasha Fijn 01 ORCID 0000-0002-2474-3365 01 eng 00 207 03 93 JHMC 10 SOC002010 10 ART078000 93 WNC 10 NAT001000 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 03 03 <p><p>Multispecies Ethnography and Artful Methods explores the potential of multimodal art practices in doing qualitative research beyond the human. Through artful endeavours such as creative writing, photography, filmmaking, drawing and poetry, the volume aims to overcome the shortcomings of conventional, anthropocentric and logocentric methods in multispecies research. To move beyond the limitations of language and linguistic communication, the contributors build on the long tradition of visual and sensory anthropology while also engaging in and consciously reflecting on innovative, creative and artistic methods. Taking a multispecies and more-than-human perspective – ranging from snow and trees to animals and an AI oracle – the volume investigates ways to touch, speak, listen, feel, walk with and reach across different species.</p><p>This book and accompanying multimedia website advance the frontier of publishing artful expressions of academic research by highlighting how creative practices can be the very core of data collection, analysis and the communication of research. As such, the artful pieces are not ‘just’ illustrations of textual representations, but are practised as part of an iterative process of data collection and analysis. </p><p>The contributions by well-established scholars, early career researchers and postgraduates who carry out new, cutting-edge research offer an engaging range of analytical, methodological and empiric orientations, while conversing at the intersection of multispecies ethnography and artful methods.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.63308/63878687083054.book.jpg The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press https://www.whpress.co.uk/ Winwick, Cambs., UK 04 20250701 2025 02 WORLD 13 15 9781912186938 06 15 9781912186945 The White Horse Press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:312a7996-c412-4a03-bb41-f2c89ed44836 03 01 01 urn:uuid:312a7996-c412-4a03-bb41-f2c89ed44836 15 9781912186990 06 10.63308/63881023874820.book DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:312a7996-c412-4a03-bb41-f2c89ed44836 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.63308/63881023874820.book.pdf 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2025/05/02/nordicclimatehistories/ 1 B01 Dominik Collet 01 ORCID 0000-0001-8970-970X 2 B01 Ingar Ingar Gundersen 3 B01 Heli Huhtamaa 01 ORCID 0000-0001-5829-5575 4 B01 Fredrik Ljungqvist 01 ORCID 0000-0003-0220-3947 5 B01 Astrid Ogilvie 01 ORCID 0000-0001-9711-7878 6 B01 Sam White 01 ORCID 0000-0002-1046-3944 01 eng 00 360 03 10 HIS035000 93 NHA 93 RNPG 10 SCI092000 93 RBPC 10 SCI042000 93 1DN 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en 03 03 <p><p>Down the centuries, the people of the Nordic countries have confronted challenges from climatic variability and change and sought ways to survive and adapt. In a time of accelerating global warming, these climate histories take on new contemporary significance. Drawing on tools from the natural and historical sciences, the innovative scholarship in this volume addresses questions such as: How did Nordic societies cope with past climatic hazards? What was the historical significance of the ‘Little Ice Age’ or the ‘Medieval Climate Anomaly’ for Nordic countries? And how do we study, narrate and learn from these past experiences?<break/> <break/>This volume is the first to collect climate histories from across all the Nordic countries. It combines research from climatologists, historians, archaeologists and museologists to explore how climate and culture interacted in the past and what we might learn from these interactions today.<break/> <break/>The chapters range from in-depth case studies to reflexive meta-histories; cover periods from the Bronze Age to the present; and draw on sources from tree rings to material culture to poetry. They also discuss how these histories can be communicated today, including how museums and literature can bring them into conversation with a current audience looking for lived experiences of climate adaptation.<break/> <break/>The volume was conceived during an international conference at the University of Oslo in May 2024. This interdisciplinary forum connected leading scholars in the field with practitioners and stakeholders. The essays presented here engage a rapidly growing field of intense public and political concern in the Nordics and beyond.<break/> <break/>The book speaks to various academic communities (climatology, history, literature) and stakeholders (museum practitioners, climate communicators and advocates). It includes the growing research and student community invested in this topic across several disciplines, practitioners and communicators in the field and the wider public interested in the vibrant debates about climate adaptation and experience.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.63308/63881023874820.book_frontcover.jpg The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press https://www.whpress.co.uk/ Winwick, Cambs. 04 20250815 2025 02 WORLD 13 15 9781912186983 06 15 9781912186990 The White Horse Press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:f4b32b82-db42-4c25-8a81-49e87ea79ac2 03 01 01 urn:uuid:f4b32b82-db42-4c25-8a81-49e87ea79ac2 15 9781912186365 06 10.3197/63801707455742.book DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:f4b32b82-db42-4c25-8a81-49e87ea79ac2 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63801707455742.book.pdf 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2015/05/01/anne-franks-tree/ 1 A01 Eric Katz 01 eng 00 212 03 12 HBQ 10 PHI000000 20 philosophy 10 NAT011000 12 RN 20 technology 20 ecological restoration 12 HBTZ1 10 HIS043000 20 holocaust 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 03 03 <p><p>In this important and original interdisciplinary work, well-known environmental philosopher Eric Katz explores technology’s role in dominating, and thus destroying, both nature and human life and society. <break/>Katz’s argument innovatively connects two distinct areas: the fundamental goal of the Holocaust, including Nazi environmental policy, to heal the degenerate elements of society; and the plan to heal degraded natural systems that informs the contemporary environmental policy of ‘ecological restoration’. In both arenas of ‘healing’, Katz argues that technology drives action, while domination emerges as the prevailing ideology. Katz’s work is a plea for the development of a technology that does not dominate and destroy but instead promotes autonomy and freedom. <break/>Anne Frank, a victim of Nazi ideology and action, saw the titular tree behind her secret annex as a symbol of freedom and moral goodness. In Katz’s argument, the tree represents a free and autonomous nature. 'Anne Frank’s Tree' is rooted in an empirical approach to philosophy, seating complex ethical ideas in a powerful narrative of historical fact and deeply personal lived experience.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63801707455742.book_frontcover.png The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press https://www.whpress.co.uk/ Winwick, UK 04 20150501 2015 02 WORLD 13 15 9781874267911 13 15 9781874267850 06 15 9781912186365 The White Horse Press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:27d44345-da5e-4cba-94e3-f3e72c0241c7 03 01 01 urn:uuid:27d44345-da5e-4cba-94e3-f3e72c0241c7 15 9781912186631 06 10.3197/9781912186228.vol1 DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:27d44345-da5e-4cba-94e3-f3e72c0241c7 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/9781912186228.vol1.pdf 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2023/06/01/a-perfect-storm-in-the-amazon-wilderness/ 1 A01 Timothy J. Killeen 01 ORCID 0000-0002-2711-1646 01 eng 00 484 03 20 Amazon 10 NAT011000 93 RNK 10 NAT038000 20 rain forest 93 RNF 20 environmental impact 93 RNP 10 SOC026000 20 natural resources 93 RNT 20 economy 93 RGBL1 93 1KLS 93 1QMT 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 03 03 <p><p>In a lucid style backed by encyclopaedic knowledge, Killeen unpicks the extremely complex ecological and socio-political threads that comprise the recent history and the vital future of the Pan Amazon region. The fight to save the Amazon is a fight for sustainability that is emblematic of the entire future of human co-existence with Nature on Earth. Killeen is an authoritative and impassioned guide, eschewing soundbites in favour of a clearsighted and highly nuanced picture of the realities on the ground. Only in understanding present realities and how they came to pass, he argues, can we proceed hopefully into the future. Events of the last ten years are discussed in detail, because future events will have to build upon – or modify – the cultural and economic forces driving events in the Pan Amazon. Nonetheless, the text provides a longer historical perspective to show how policies create legacies that reverberate over decades, long after they have been recognised as being fundamentally flawed.</p><p>The book does not demonise stakeholder groups or economic actors, but explains the social and economic realities that constrain their decisions and motivates them to act as they do. Likewise, it identifies the policies that have created a foundation for positive change, as well as those that are not delivering the benefits their advocates had hoped to generate.</p><p>The broad scope and descriptive detail of the narrative will provide the reader with an understanding of the synergies among the multiple complex phenomena that threaten the conservation of the Amazon, as well as an objective analysis of the alternative production models and regulatory reforms that are essential for bending the arc of history and saving an ecosystem on critical importance to the planet Killeen makes no attempt to predict the future via a ‘scenarios analysis’, but he does identify certain phenomena that will most definitely happen (regardless of new policies or market forces), those that might or might not happen (depending on new policies and markets forces), some that should never happen (e.g., extreme climate change), and those that absolutely must happen in order to change the current trajectory of Amazonian development (e.g., revenue transfers that can change human behaviour).</p></p> 04 01 https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/9781912186228.vol1_frontcover.jpg The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press https://www.whpress.co.uk/ Winwick, UK 04 20220101 2022 02 WORLD 13 15 9781912186235 06 15 9781912186631 The White Horse Press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:4f2eac27-d84f-47cc-a525-fbaebb3d918f 03 01 01 urn:uuid:4f2eac27-d84f-47cc-a525-fbaebb3d918f 15 9781912186310 06 10.3197/9781912186310.book DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:4f2eac27-d84f-47cc-a525-fbaebb3d918f 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/9781912186310.book.pdf 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2012/03/30/changing-deserts/ 1 B01 Lisa Mol 01 ORCID 0000-0001-5272-3671 2 B01 Troy Sternberg 01 eng 00 346 03 20 deserts 12 HBTP 10 HIS049000 20 drylands 10 NAT045010 12 RGBA 20 environment 10 NAT024000 12 RNK 10 HIS054000 20 history 12 RG 20 cultures 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 03 03 <p><p>Deserts – vast, empty places where time appears to stand still. The very word conjures images of endless seas of sand, blistering heat and a virtual absence of life. However, deserts encompass a large variety of landscapes and life beyond our stereotypes. As well as magnificent Saharan dunes under blazing sun, the desert concept encompasses the intensely cold winters of the Gobi, the snow-covered expanse of Antarctica and the rock-strewn drylands of Pakistan. Deserts are environments in perpetual flux and home to peoples as diverse as their surroundings, peoples who grapple with a broad spectrum of cultural, political and environmental issues as they wrest livelihoods from marginal lands.<break/>The cultures, environments and histories of deserts, while fundamentally entangled, are rarely studied as part of a network. To bring different disciplines together, the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Deserts Conference in March 2010 brought together a wide range of researchers from backgrounds as varied as physics, history, archaeology anthropology, geology and geography. This volume draws on the diversity of papers presented to give an overview of current research in deserts and drylands. Readers are invited to explore the wide range of desert environments and peoples and the ever-evolving challenges they face.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/9781912186310.book_frontcover.jpg The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press https://www.whpress.co.uk/ Winwick, UK 04 20120330 2012 02 WORLD 13 15 9781874267690 06 15 9781912186310 The White Horse Press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:21612ce1-1004-4cd4-b9d4-84c02ab16b96 03 01 01 urn:uuid:21612ce1-1004-4cd4-b9d4-84c02ab16b96 15 9781912186792 06 10.3197/63842832816954.book DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:21612ce1-1004-4cd4-b9d4-84c02ab16b96 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63842832816954.book.pdf 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2023/06/05/paradise-blues/ 1 A01 Christof Mauch 2 B06 Lucy Jones 01 eng 02 ger 00 298 03 20 America 10 TRV010000 12 WTL 93 WTL 20 environment 10 TRV025000 93 WTHC 12 WTHC 12 1KBB 93 1KBB 20 travel 10 TRV026020 20 history 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 03 03 <p><p>Paradise Blues is an unconventional history of the United States of America, an unusual travel guide that follows and renders visible the country’s paths of nature, history and civilisation. Christof Mauch is a leading German historian who has spent many years in the US and in this book he attempts, from a European perspective, to grasp the diversity of American culture and the transformation of its environments, combining travel reporting with nature writing, personal observation and philosophical reflection. Mauch seeks the familiar in unfamiliar places and the curious in places that seem common and well-known. <break/>The journey begins in tiny Wiseman, Alaska and the final portrait is of Portland, Oregon, famously America’s most sustainable city. In between, Mauch’s wanderings in space and time, his serendipitous and planned encounters with places and people, bring to light the tension and ambivalence in most Americans’ attitudes towards their often-perilous environment, the intertwining throughout history of valuation, conservation and destruction. Interactions between human beings and the environment have settled like sediment down the centuries and may be read in the present – in the form of landscapes and collective memory, in bodies of water and the earth’s strata, tree rings and human cells. One of Mauch’s dominant themes is that the grand hopes and bitter disappointments of the American paradise are not equally distributed – the blues is the voice of the dispossessed and disadvantaged; and here environmental injustice toward Black, Indigenous and other marginalised people is a recurring and haunting motif.<break/>This is a book of melancholia and hope – Mauch exposes the beauty, the imperilment, at times the wreckage, of the American environment. And he shows us that, more powerfully than abstract ideas, governmental edicts or technological forces, stories reveal the infinite discoveries to be made in humans’ relationship to nature – in beautiful landscapes where danger lurks as well as in visions and behaviours that change the world and ecosystems. Above all, stories demonstrate that where we come from and where we are going are intimately connected and therefore nothing has to remain as it is. The stories told in Paradise Blues demonstrate that vulnerabilities and pressures are almost always political constructions and, for that reason, it must be possible to deconstruct them.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63842832816954.book_frontcover.png The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press https://www.whpress.co.uk/ Winwick, Cambridgeshire, UK 04 20240115 2024 02 WORLD 13 15 9781912186785 06 15 9781912186792 The White Horse Press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:62842c74-dd0e-4887-8970-4806cecc1264 03 01 01 urn:uuid:62842c74-dd0e-4887-8970-4806cecc1264 15 9781912186600 06 10.3197/63787710662654.book DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:62842c74-dd0e-4887-8970-4806cecc1264 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63787710662654.book.pdf 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2022/07/01/pathways/ 1 B01 Daniel Svensson 01 ORCID 0000-0002-2914-4476 2 B01 Katarina Saltzmann 3 B01 Sverker Sörlin 01 eng 00 331 03 12 GM 10 HIS049000 20 walking 10 SPO050000 20 trails 12 WSZC 20 heritage 10 SOC015000 20 history 20 environment 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 03 03 <p><p>Trails and paths are pathways to the past – and serve as a physical and cultural infrastructure of human memory. While they lead the way forward for anyone out walking, they also point backwards, towards history. <break/>Walking has been a common denominator for human life everywhere, at all times. While other forms of mobility have grown in importance and changed our societies in dramatic ways, most of us still depend on walking in our daily life. The massive number of human steps throughout history has created a rich and widespread network of trails that cross the globe and connect places. It has also resulted in a vast immaterial heritage through literature, art and music about walking. Paths and trails accommodate both the material and the immaterial, and challenge not only conventional heritage management but also the very essence of the nature/culture divide. <break/>In our current age, the Anthropocene, traces of people’s movements can be regarded as a distinct kind of cultural heritage, a ‘movement heritage’ that is dependent on continuous use or memory work to remain. It also points to historical and current forms of land use that is sustainable in the most basic meaning of the word, i.e. that these activities can be and de facto has been practiced over long periods of time without causing large-scale environmental degradation. Few other forms of human mobility can make similar claims.<break/>So, while traces and remains from different kinds of movement may be small in physical scale, they are monumental in terms of their importance for the understanding of how a landscape has been used historically. Traces of mobility form lines that, with Tim Ingold, tie together the life worlds of the past with those of the present.<break/>Walking tracks, paths, and trails are usually ephemeral and often also neglected traces of humans moving by foot through landscapes in the past and the present. These subtle landscape features seem to be difficult to handle within established heritage management regimes, partly because of their fugitive and timid nature. However, their uses and impacts have often been decisive and important for individuals and communities across spatial and temporal scales.<break/>In this anthology, we will explore possibilities to acknowledge human motion, and traces thereof, as heritage. Today, with the increasing interest in local and sustainable connections, and in bodily and spiritual enhancement, we see a growing use of walking tracks both in landscapes within reach from urban centres and in more remotely located or ‘wild’ areas. The corona pandemic has further propelled these trends. Of course, landscapes that are commonly understood as wilderness or ‘nature’ are in most cases clearly influenced by human actions and movements. While walking trails tend to be regarded as pathways to experience nature and as tools to promote public health, they could also be seen and used as routes to culture and history, indeed as pathways to the past. Based on a Swedish research project with the aim to explore the multiple dimensions of walking, paths and movement we will in this volume engage and discuss the potential effects of such an expansion of the heritage register.<break/>Landscapes of mobility have been shaped by hiking, hunting, outdoor life, tourism, sports, and physical training for centuries. They are historical remains of those activities, while simultaneously being the infrastructure for present-day usages. The demand for places suitable for movement, training and events continue to grow, and hiking trails are a key component in the rise of nature-based tourism, sport events such as trail running and mountain biking, and the increasing interest in outdoor life and hiking. So far, the historical and heritage aspects of these developments have been underarticulated. However, the Norwegian heritage board together with the Norwegian Tourist Association (Den Norske Turistforening, DNT) have initiated a project around historical hiking trails that have been attracting attention over the last couple of years. Similar attempts are now being made in Sweden, England, and elsewhere. There is need for a more explicit discussion about trails as heritage. With this anthology we will contribute with precisely that through gathering leading scholars in Europe and beyond around this subject and engaging them in dialogue.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63787710662654.book_frontcover.jpg The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press https://www.whpress.co.uk/ Winwick, Cambs. 04 20220731 2022 02 WORLD 13 15 9781912186556 06 15 9781912186600 The White Horse Press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:cae777fc-8739-4940-bac6-09fcb7c9a132 03 01 01 urn:uuid:cae777fc-8739-4940-bac6-09fcb7c9a132 15 9781912186624 06 10.3197/63823481143229.book DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:cae777fc-8739-4940-bac6-09fcb7c9a132 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63823481143229.book.pdf 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2021/09/21/policy-and-practice-in-rural-tanzania/ 1 A01 Antonio Allegretti 01 eng 00 208 03 12 JHM 10 SOC002000 20 Tanzania 12 GTF 20 policy 10 SOC042000 12 1HFGT 20 agriculture 10 BUS092000 20 fishing 20 rural people 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 03 03 <p><p>Who are the rural people of Africa? What does it mean to be part of a ‘rural’ community in contemporary Tanzania? And why is it important to debate questions of African rurality beyond the mere GDP contribution of rural land-based production? This book seeks to address questions like these. Rural people(s) in contemporary Africa are often conceived of in terms of how to efficiently integrate them into international markets and global value chains; this book analyses the question of integration of rural people in Tanzania by delving into how they deal with local-global connections and engage with policy objectives on their own terms, between local forms of associational life and global markets. In so doing, it explores local socio-economic dynamics that find little space in the national and global policy vision of a rural sector geared towards growth – a vision that is peculiar to African states, including Tanzania. <break/>Informed by anthropological theory and de-re-agrarianisation/de-re-peasantisation debates, and grounded in ethnographic evidence, the book eschews ‘orthodox’ approaches that see (rural) people as passive recipients of policies, and policies as instruments of oppression. Instead, it departs from the rural land/place-based practices of grazing, fishing and farming to look at rurality in Tanzania as a blend of old and new meanings, values and practices at the local-global interface, continually reshuffled as rural people encounter different social and economic spheres. As the world rediscovers the urgency of questions connected to neo-colonialism and de-colonisation, this book brings to the forefront the position, worldview and ambitions of African rural peoples intersecting with international policy models, visions and objectives.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63823481143229.book_frontcover.jpg The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press https://www.whpress.co.uk/ Winwick, UK 04 20220401 2022 02 WORLD 13 15 9781912186266 06 15 9781912186624 The White Horse Press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:7cb361f2-54b2-4ba9-adc6-46b1e1ec1fbf 03 01 01 urn:uuid:7cb361f2-54b2-4ba9-adc6-46b1e1ec1fbf 15 9781912186921 06 10.63308/63899870973021.book DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:7cb361f2-54b2-4ba9-adc6-46b1e1ec1fbf 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.63308/63899870973021.book.pdf 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2025/02/06/ruraltransitions/ 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.63308/63899870973021.book.epub 1 B01 Ariell Ahearn 01 ORCID 0000-0001-9911-4996 3 B01 Gantulga Munkherdene 01 ORCID 0000-0001-7116-078X 4 B01 Takahiro Ozaki 01 ORCID 0000-0002-4623-9426 01 eng 00 300 03 93 JHMC 20 pastoralism 10 SOC002010 20 Central Asia 93 JBSL 10 SOC008020 93 JBFN 20 resilience 10 SOC057000 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 03 03 <p><p>Focusing on pastoral and rural communities, this volume highlights ongoing transitions in rural Central Asia. Informed by in-depth case studies from Mongolia, Buryatia and Kyrgyzstan, the essays focus on themes in contemporary pastoralism, including the adaptation and resilience of rural pastoralist livelihoods during and after the Covid-19 pandemic; healing, food and wellbeing, including an examination of rural experiences of wellbeing and the re-invention and revival of traditional foods; and economic relations, including changing spatialisation of labour spurred by mineral extraction, the role of digital media and urban-rural dynamics. The volume presents insights into contemporary human geography and anthropology of the Inner Asian region; highlights the ongoing importance of scholarship on rural places; and offers a critical lens on broader processes of change affecting the region. A collaboration between scholars spanning Japan, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, the UK and the USA, the volume showcases work by diverse authors with longstanding engagement in Inner Asia.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.63308/63899870973021.book_frontcover.jpg The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press https://www.whpress.co.uk/ Winwick, Cambs. 04 20260215 2026 02 WORLD 13 15 9781912186914 06 15 9781912186921 06 15 9781917813082 The White Horse Press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:8d5cc2e8-42fa-4f6b-ba0a-823d82980dc5 03 01 01 urn:uuid:8d5cc2e8-42fa-4f6b-ba0a-823d82980dc5 15 9781912186655 06 10.3197/63800040695086.book DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:8d5cc2e8-42fa-4f6b-ba0a-823d82980dc5 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63800040695086.book.pdf 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2022/11/01/age-of-soybean/ 1 B01 Claiton Marcio da Silva 01 ORCID 0000-0002-4582-4586 2 B01 Claudio de Majo 01 ORCID 0000-0003-4747-9947 01 eng 00 366 03 12 HBT 10 HIS000000 20 soya 20 agriculture 10 NAT011000 12 TV 20 environmental history 10 NAT026000 12 WN 20 global history 12 RNK 10 SOC055000 20 commodities 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 03 03 <p><p>The soybean is far more than just a versatile crop whose derivates serve the protein needs of a meatless diet. One of the world’s most important commodities, soy represents the embodiment of mechanised industrial agriculture and is one of the main actors behind the socioeconomic, political and ecological transformations of industrial farming in several world regions. Despite the crop’s potential as a cheap source of vegetal protein for human consumers, most industrial soybean production has fuelled the global meat industrial complex, as animal feed. Soybean is thus, paradoxically, still a relatively ‘invisible’ crop to the public at large, although its global yields continue to increase at stupendous rates, lining the pockets of agribusiness and to the detriment of traditional agriculture.<break/>The transnational socio-ecological and economic entanglements characterising this versatile legume’s global expansion have prompted scholarly attention as researchers around the world have begun to unveil the main historical drivers behind the rise of the soybean in the global food chain. This book aims to expand the analysis, offering the most significant effort so far at an environmental history of soybeans. Interrogating the socioeconomic and ecological transformations determined by (and determining) the rise of soy in international food chains during the Great Acceleration, the volume gathers contributions from an international cast of researchers, working in numerous geographical contexts, from Japan and China, to India, African nations, the Southern Cone of Latin America, Northern Europe and the United States. Soybean farming, breeding, processing and marketing have bound together the histories of these diverse regions and altered beyond recognition their ecological and socio-economic contexts.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63800040695086.book_frontcover.jpg The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press https://www.whpress.co.uk/ Winwick, UK 04 20221101 2022 02 WORLD 13 15 9781912186648 06 15 9781912186655 The White Horse Press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:04b66d69-76b9-42ac-9cd8-c35a56ac694f 03 01 01 urn:uuid:04b66d69-76b9-42ac-9cd8-c35a56ac694f 15 9781912186013 06 10.3197/63833942852628.book DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:04b66d69-76b9-42ac-9cd8-c35a56ac694f 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2016/12/17/the-eclipse-of-urbanism-and-the-greening-of-public-space/ 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63833942852628.book.pdf 1 A01 Mark Luccarelli 01 eng 00 256 03 20 cities 10 HIS036000 12 RNK 93 RNK 10 HIS036020 20 landscape 93 RNA 12 RNA 12 HBTB 10 HIS036030 93 NHTB 20 USA 20 environmental history 12 HBJK 10 HIS036040 93 NHK 12 1KBB 93 1KBB 10 NAT011000 12 3JD 93 3MG 12 3JF 93 3ML 12 3JH 93 3MN 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 03 03 <p><p>In "The Eclipse of Urbanism and the Greening of Public Space: Image Making and the Search for a Commons in the United States, 1682–1865", Mark Luccarelli pushes past unproductive mind/body debates by rooting the rise of environmental awareness in the political and geographical history of the US. Considering history in terms of the categorical development of space – social, territorial and conceptual – the book examines the forces that drove people to ignore their surroundings by distancing culture from place and by assiduously advancing the dissolution of social bonds. Thus beneath the question of the surround, and the key to its renewal today, is the quest to re-engage the common. The latter is still a part of the approach to space, its arrangement and disposition, and has a necessary environmental dimension. Concepts of urbanism, place identity, picturesque landscape and nature are part of a larger Western intellectual and cultural context but, by examining the imaging of cities and landscape, Luccarelli links particular American geographic settings – as well as the political ideals and practices of the republic – to the application and aesthetic reading of these ideas. The advocates of these various perspectives shared an aesthetic orientation as a means of redefining or recovering the common. The book looks at various American urban and regional contexts, as well as the work of artists, writers and public figures, including painter and engraver William Birch, Thomas Jefferson, engraver John Hill, Henry David Thoreau and Frederick Law Olmsted. Luccarelli embeds his environmental study in the works of these men and in the course of American history between the planting of the city of Philadelphia and the establishment of Olmsted’s major urban parks.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63833942852628.book_frontcover.jpg The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press https://www.whpress.co.uk/ Winwick, UK 04 20161215 2016 02 WORLD 13 15 9781874267942 06 15 9781912186013 The White Horse Press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:7f473052-39ca-4f60-85a3-44648950dda6 03 01 01 urn:uuid:7f473052-39ca-4f60-85a3-44648950dda6 15 9781912186198 06 10.3197/63811648691469.book DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:7f473052-39ca-4f60-85a3-44648950dda6 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2020/09/16/the-environment-and-the-european-public-sphere/ 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63811648691469.book.pdf 1 B01 Christian Wenkel 2 B01 Eric Bussière 3 B01 Anahita Grisoni 4 B01 Hélène Miard-Delacroix 01 eng 00 358 03 93 GTM 12 HBJD 20 public policy 10 SOC053000 20 environment 10 NAT011000 12 RNB 93 RNK 12 1D 20 Europe 12 1QFE 20 EU 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 03 03 <p><p>Since the 1970s, environmental issues have become a major concern for European citizens and thus for European politicians. In the same time frame the political sphere in Europe, and in particular within the European Union, has also been undergoing major transformations. Dealing with environmental issues over more than fifty years in a historical perspective enables us to gain a better understanding of these transformations, notably the emergence of a European public sphere and how this is changing decision-making processes. Drawing on recent research results from various disciplines, including history, sociology, law and political sciences, this volume addresses the methodological challenge of a European perspective on a transnational subject – one that is commonly distorted by a national prism. It shows how perceptions of the environment are increasingly converging and how these convergences of views across political or linguistic borders in the long run exert an undeniable influence not only on political debates but also on political decisions across Europe.<break/>Revealing European characteristics of perceptions, debates and policies, this volume contributes to a history of Europeanisation beyond the usual political turning points and limits.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63811648691469.book_frontcover.jpg The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press https://www.whpress.co.uk/ Winwick, UK 04 20200915 2020 02 WORLD 13 15 9781912186143 06 15 9781912186198 The White Horse Press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:5baa9887-b6ad-451a-b0e9-0387f1ccb0c5 03 01 01 urn:uuid:5baa9887-b6ad-451a-b0e9-0387f1ccb0c5 15 9781917813013 06 10.3197/63885234492375.book DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:5baa9887-b6ad-451a-b0e9-0387f1ccb0c5 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2025/06/27/piruzai/ 1 A01 Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper 2 A01 Richard Tapper 01 eng 00 394 03 93 JHMC 20 Piruzai 10 SOC002010 20 Afghanistan 93 AJC 10 PHO004000 20 Pastoralism 20 Photography 01 06 03 03 <p><p>In the early 1970s Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper and Richard Tapper spent a year living with the Piruzai, pastoralists and farmers in northern Afghanistan. They joined the Piruzai in the spring pastures, trekked with Piruzai families, their camels, horses, sheep, goats and dogs, to the high mountains of the Hazarajat in the summer and returned with them to their farmlands in the autumn. And they took hundreds of photographs. <break/>This book reproduces 380 of those photos, most in colour. It is a visual ethnography of the beauty of the people they met and the landscape in which they lived and travelled. The pictures are an evocation of a time of peace before the country was engulfed in nearly fifty years of war, and an historical record of the lives of people who have since had to cope with great tragedy and whose relatives and descendants have been major actors in more recent events. <break/>This book is also a work of art. The landscapes are simply spectacular. But equally striking are the pictures of family groups, of people working and the intimate portraits of women and men and children. All too often Afghans have been stereotyped for other people’s political purposes, but here you meet warm, clear-sighted individuals who can laugh at themselves and are kind, curious and wise about others. <break/>This book is published by the authors in association with The White Horse Press.</p></p> 04 01 https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/9781917813013.png The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press https://www.whpress.co.uk/ Winwick, Cambs. 04 20250630 2025 02 WORLD 13 15 9781917813006 06 15 9781917813013 The White Horse Press 09 99 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:b1eb909b-d863-4655-917f-25bba6e3a0f7 03 01 01 urn:uuid:b1eb909b-d863-4655-917f-25bba6e3a0f7 15 9781912186730 06 10.3197/63811987103618.book DG 002 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:b1eb909b-d863-4655-917f-25bba6e3a0f7 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2021/08/16/return-of-malthus/ 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63811987103618.book.pdf 1 A01 Björn-Ola Linnér 01 ORCID 0000-0001-9910-3779 2 A23 Donald Worster 01 eng 00 324 03 12 JHBD 20 Malthus 10 TEC010000 12 HBT 20 population 10 SCI026000 10 BUS054000 20 fear of scarcity 12 RNA 20 food supply 12 HB 20 environmental history 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 03 03 <p><p>The Return of Malthus is the first comprehensive analysis of the post-war fear of scarcity. Linnér traces the development of an international discourse of crisis through the influence of such thinkers as William Vogt, Fairfield Osborn and Georg Börgström, labelled ‘neo-Malthusians’ for their emphasis on an impending clash between population growth and resource limits, after the manner of the nineteenth-century father of scarcity economics. The book analyses the role of science and technology in securing food supply, the transmutation of older ideas about preserving nature into a new conservation ideology based on sustainable use, and the preoccupation of the industrialised nations with forestalling communism and controlling power relations.</p><p>First published by The White Horse Press in 2003. Even more relevant today, this revised edition charts perceptions of and prescriptions for crises of population growth and resource shortage, which have had profound influence on agricultural, population and security policies from the Second World War to the present.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.3197/63811987103618.book_frontcover.jpg The White Horse Press 01 The White Horse Press https://www.whpress.co.uk/ Winwick, UK 04 20230417 2023 02 WORLD 13 15 9781912186747 13 15 9781874267515 06 15 9781912186730 The White Horse Press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD