About this title: This omnibus edition brings together three seminal works by one of India's best-known historians and environmentalist Ramachandra Guha "The Unquiet Woods", "A Global History " and "Savaging the Civilised".
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Binding: Hardbound
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New Delhi
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780195668117ISBN:0195668111
Description: New. pp. 803. As New. Contents Introduction. I. The Unquiet woods ecological change and peasant resistance in the Himalaya Preface. Glossary. 1. A sociology of domination and resistance. 2. The mountains and their people. 3. Scientific forestry and social change. 4. Rebellion as custom. 5. Rebellion as confrontation. 6. The March of commercial forestry. 7. Chipko social history of an environmental movement. 8. Peasants and history. Epilogue. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. II. Environmentalism a ... read more
Description: Brand New in Brand New jacket. Condition: NEW ~ This is an omnibus edition of three path-breaking works by a historian described in the New York Times as perhaps the best among Indias non-fiction writers. The Unquiet Woods puts into historical perspective the well-known Chipko movement, a peasant movement against commercial forestry in Uttarakhand. The author forcefully establishes that Chipko was but a continuation of an earlier history of social protest, in which peasants had consistently ... read more
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