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dc.contributor.authorRitvo, Harriet
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-19T19:23:29Z
dc.date.available2013-12-19T19:23:29Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.isbn9780415716567
dc.identifier.isbn9780415716574
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/83082
dc.description.abstractResearch from a humanist perspective has much to offer in interrogating the social and cultural ramifications of invasion ecologies. The impossibility of securing national boundaries against accidental transfer and the unpredictable climatic changes of our time have introduced new dimensions and hazards to this old issue. Written by a team of international scholars, this book allows us to rethink the impact on national, regional or local ecologies of the deliberate or accidental introduction of foreign species, plant and animal. Modern environmental approaches that treat nature with naïve realism or mobilize it as a moral absolute, unaware or unwilling to accept that it is informed by specific cultural and temporal values, are doomed to fail. Instead, this book shows that we need to understand the complex interactions of ecologies and societies in the past, present and future over the Anthropocene, in order to address problems of the global environmental crisis. It demonstrates how humanistic methods and disciplines can be used to bring fresh clarity and perspective on this long vexed aspect of environmental thought and practice.en_US
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415716574/en_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/en_US
dc.sourceRitvo via Michelle Baildonen_US
dc.titleBack Story: Migration, Assimilation and Invasion in the Nineteenth Century [book chapter]en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationRitvo, Harriet. "Back Story: Migration, Assimilation, and Invasion in the Nineteenth Century." in Rethinking Invasion Ecologies from the Environmental Humanities, edited by Jodi Frawley, Iain McCalman. (New York: Routledge, 2014), chapter 2.en_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. History Sectionen_US
dc.contributor.approverRitvo, Harrieten_US
dc.contributor.mitauthorRitvo, Harrieten_US
dc.relation.journalRethinking Invasion Ecologies from the Environmental Humanitiesen_US
dc.eprint.versionAuthor's final manuscripten_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/BookItemen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/NonPeerRevieweden_US
dspace.orderedauthorsRitvo, Harrieten_US
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6278-3571
mit.licenseOPEN_ACCESS_POLICYen_US
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