Trees by Sarah Johnson

Trees by Sarah Johnson

The fifth volume in the reader series, 'Themes in Environmental History'. Comprising essays selected from Environment and History and Environmental Values, these inexpensive paperbacks address important aspects of environmental history through theoretical essays and case studies. The readers are attracting increasing interest from course-organisers. Trees addresses the roots of environmental history in forest history, offering a substantial section on forestry practice and ideology and the power-relations that have been and continue to be played out in global forests. While histories of forests and forestry have at times, by focus on the woods, obscured our vision of the trees, this volume contains several essays about the nurturing of specific trees, from street trees to penal planting. A theme that runs through many of the essays is the psycho-social significance of trees, from nationalism to legend, imperialism to post-modern uncertainty; trees can be aligned with identity, power, betrayal or redemption.The human relationship with trees that Dargavel and Johann have figured as one of 'science and hope' is an arena for endlessly diversified construction and negotiation, experiment and experience.

SARAH L. JOHNSON is Reference Librarian and Associate Professor at Booth Library, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois. A longtime reader and collector of historical novels, Johnson is the book review editor for the Historical Novels Review (a historical fiction review journal for the United States and Great Britain). She also writes readers' advisory articles for the NoveList database and reviews historical fiction for Booklist.

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ISBN 13	9781874267881
ISBN 10	187426788X
Titre	Trees
Auteur	Sarah Johnson
Série	Themes In Environmental History
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	White Horse Press
Année de publication	2015-03-01
Nombre de pages	380
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