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Nation-states are failing to resolve global problems that transcend the abilities of single governments or even groups of governments to address. This book argues that this dilemma is not as new as is sometimes claimed. It offers crucial context and even lessons for present-day debates about resolving the most urgent environmental problems.
Erika Marie Bsumek, University of Texas at Austin;David Kinkela, SUNY Fredonia;Mark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas at Austin
Contributors; Introduction; Erika Marie Bsumek, David Kinkela, and Mark Atwood Lawrence; Part I: Nature, Nation-States, and the Regulatory Dilemma; 1. Europe's River: The Rhine as Prelude to Transnational Cooperation and the Common Market, Mark Cioc; 2. National Sovereignty, the International Whaling Commission, and the Save the Whales Movement, Kurk Dorsey; 3. Global Borders and the Fish that Ignore Them: The Cold War Roots of Overfishing, Mary Carmel Finley; 4. Making Parks out of Making Wars: Transnational Nature Conservation and Environmental Diplomacy in the Twenty-First Century, Greg Bankoff; 5. Going Global After Vietnam: The End of Agent Orange and the Rise of an International Environmental Regime, David Zierler; 6. The Paradox of U.S. Pesticide Policy during the Age of Ecology, David Kinkela; Part II: Nature, Nations, and the Circulation of Knowledge; 7. The Imperial Politics of Hurricane Prediction: From Calcutta and Havana to Manila and Galveston, 1839-1900, Gregory T. Cushman; 8. Biological Control, Transnational Exchange, and the Construction of Environmental Thought in the United States, 1840-1920, James E. McWilliams; 9. Bird Day: Promoting the Gospel of Kindness in the Philippines during the American Occupation, Janet M. Davis; 10. Salmon Migrations, Nez Perce Nationalism, and the Global Economy, Benedict J. Colombi; 11. The Brazilian Amazon and the Transnational Environment, 1940-1990, Seth Garfield; 12. International Trash and the Politics of Poverty: Conceptualizing the Transnational Waste Trade, Emily Brownell; Afterword: International Systems and Their Discontents, J.R. McNeill
Show moreNation-states are failing to resolve global problems that transcend the abilities of single governments or even groups of governments to address. This book argues that this dilemma is not as new as is sometimes claimed. It offers crucial context and even lessons for present-day debates about resolving the most urgent environmental problems.
Erika Marie Bsumek, University of Texas at Austin;David Kinkela, SUNY Fredonia;Mark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas at Austin
Contributors; Introduction; Erika Marie Bsumek, David Kinkela, and Mark Atwood Lawrence; Part I: Nature, Nation-States, and the Regulatory Dilemma; 1. Europe's River: The Rhine as Prelude to Transnational Cooperation and the Common Market, Mark Cioc; 2. National Sovereignty, the International Whaling Commission, and the Save the Whales Movement, Kurk Dorsey; 3. Global Borders and the Fish that Ignore Them: The Cold War Roots of Overfishing, Mary Carmel Finley; 4. Making Parks out of Making Wars: Transnational Nature Conservation and Environmental Diplomacy in the Twenty-First Century, Greg Bankoff; 5. Going Global After Vietnam: The End of Agent Orange and the Rise of an International Environmental Regime, David Zierler; 6. The Paradox of U.S. Pesticide Policy during the Age of Ecology, David Kinkela; Part II: Nature, Nations, and the Circulation of Knowledge; 7. The Imperial Politics of Hurricane Prediction: From Calcutta and Havana to Manila and Galveston, 1839-1900, Gregory T. Cushman; 8. Biological Control, Transnational Exchange, and the Construction of Environmental Thought in the United States, 1840-1920, James E. McWilliams; 9. Bird Day: Promoting the Gospel of Kindness in the Philippines during the American Occupation, Janet M. Davis; 10. Salmon Migrations, Nez Perce Nationalism, and the Global Economy, Benedict J. Colombi; 11. The Brazilian Amazon and the Transnational Environment, 1940-1990, Seth Garfield; 12. International Trash and the Politics of Poverty: Conceptualizing the Transnational Waste Trade, Emily Brownell; Afterword: International Systems and Their Discontents, J.R. McNeill
Show moreContributors
Introduction
Erika Marie Bsumek, David Kinkela, and Mark Atwood Lawrence
Part I: Nature, Nation-States, and the Regulatory Dilemma
1. Europe's River: The Rhine as Prelude to Transnational
Cooperation and the Common Market, Mark Cioc
2. National Sovereignty, the International Whaling Commission, and
the Save the Whales Movement, Kurk Dorsey
3. Global Borders and the Fish that Ignore Them: The Cold War Roots
of Overfishing, Mary Carmel Finley
4. Making Parks out of Making Wars: Transnational Nature
Conservation and Environmental Diplomacy in the Twenty-First
Century, Greg Bankoff
5. Going Global After Vietnam: The End of Agent Orange and the Rise
of an International Environmental Regime, David Zierler
6. The Paradox of U.S. Pesticide Policy during the Age of Ecology,
David Kinkela
Part II: Nature, Nations, and the Circulation of Knowledge
7. The Imperial Politics of Hurricane Prediction: From Calcutta and
Havana to Manila and Galveston, 1839-1900, Gregory T. Cushman
8. Biological Control, Transnational Exchange, and the Construction
of Environmental Thought in the United States, 1840-1920, James E.
McWilliams
9. Bird Day: Promoting the Gospel of Kindness in the Philippines
during the American Occupation, Janet M. Davis
10. Salmon Migrations, Nez Perce Nationalism, and the Global
Economy, Benedict J. Colombi
11. The Brazilian Amazon and the Transnational Environment,
1940-1990, Seth Garfield
12. International Trash and the Politics of Poverty:
Conceptualizing the Transnational Waste Trade, Emily Brownell
Afterword: International Systems and Their Discontents, J.R.
McNeill
Erika Marie Bsumek is Associate Professor of History at the
University of Texas at Austin and the author of Indian-Made: Navajo
Culture in the Marketplace, 1868-1940.
David Kinkela is Associate Professor of History at the State
University of New York Fredonia and the author of DDT and the
American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the
Pesticide that Changed the World.
Mark Atwood Lawrence is Associate Professor of History at the
University of Texas at Austin and the author of Assuming the
Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam and
The Vietnam War: A Concise International History.
"Nation-States and the Global Environment is an ambitious,
important, and useful book....Historians and interested citizens
will find much in Nation-States and the Global Environment to keep
them pondering. One of its great virtues is its global reach and
its regional-issue specificity, demonstrating again how
environmental problems always occupy multiple spaces."--Oregon
Historical Quarterly
"A commendable compilation. Suitable for use in seminars in either
environmental or diplomatic history."--CHOICE
"We often make our judgments on our biological future as looming
and/or glowing in accordance with our assessment of choices we made
on such momentous matters in the past. I advise that we should
start that assessment by reading Nation-States and the Global
Environment."--Alfred W. Crosby, author of Children of the Sun: A
History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy
"This valuable collection is the most up-to-date and wide-ranging
set of essays available on modern environmental history in global
context. It tackles one of the most important tensions facing the
contemporary world: the cross-national nature of key environmental
problems, yet the centrality of nation states to the solution of
these problems. The authors provide essential historical depth to
current policy discussions and public debate on environmental
issues, and pioneering contributions to global and transnational
history."--Ian Tyrrell, University of New South Wales
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