Preface

The New Environmentalisms

Jill Ker Conway

Kenneth Keniston

Leo Marx

I. HISTORICAL STUDIES

Introduction (JKC)

As the World Runs out of Breath: Metaphorical Perspectives on the Heavens and the Atmosphere in the Ancient World

Gregory Nagy

Climate and History: Lessons from the Great Plains

Donald Worster

Consumed by Either Fire or Fire: A Prolegomenon to Anthropogenic Fire

Stephen J. Pyne

Only a World Perspective Is Significant: Settlement Frontiers and Property Rights in Early Modern World History

John F. Richards

II. SOCIAL STUDIES

Introduction (KK)

Environmentalism and Indian Peoples

Richard White

Indigenous Rights, Environmental Protection, and the Struggle over Forest Resources in the Amazon: The Case of the Brazilian Kayapo

Terence Turner

Grassroots Environmental Activism: The Toxics Movement and Directions for Social Change

Barbara Epstein

Russian Environmental Movements

Oleg N. Yanitsky

Gender and Environmental Action

Bina Agarwal

III. THE QUESTION OF MODERNITY

Introduction (LM)

Gender, Environment, and Nature: Two Episodes in Feminist Politics

Jill Ker Conway

Yaakov Garb

Modernity and the Environment as a Public Issue in Today's Russia

Anton Struchkov

Modernity and Literary Theory

Louis Menand

Environmental Degradation and the Ambiguous Social Role of Science and Technology

Leo Marx

Appendix

Notes on Contributors