Reflections: What Can U.S. Environmental Historians Learn from Non-U.S. Environmental Historiography
Author(s)
Sutter, Paul
Abstract
The preservationist ideal of protecting wilderness has been challenged by a movement drawing from international historiographies. These perspectives focus on the outcomes of colonialism and environmentalism as environmental processes. While U.S. environmental movements have focused on the impact of capitalism on nature, other movements have focused on the impacts of state political orientations on nature. Examples are drawn from South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Philippines.
