Inventing Global Ecology: Tracking the Biodiversity Ideal in India, 1947-1997

by Michael L. Lewis

Book Overview

Blue jeans, MTV, Coca-Cola, and... ecology? We don't often think of conservation sciences as a U.S. export, but in the second half of the twentieth century an astounding array of scientists and ideas flowed out from the United States into the world, preaching the gospel of conservation-oriented ecology.

Inventing Global Ecology grapples with how we should understand the development of global ecology in the twentieth century--a science...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821415409
• ISBN13: 9780821415405
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"