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100 _aWall, Derek
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245 _aCommons in history - culture, conflict and ecology
260 _aLondon
_bMIT Press
_c2014
300 _axv,165p.
440 _aHistory for a sustainable future Ed. by Michael Egan
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505 _aCONTENTS Foreword xi Acknowledgments xvii 1.Commons Ecology 1 Overview 2 Commons, Sustainability, and Environmental History 3 What Is the Commons? 4 Contested Commons 10 The Tragedy of the Commons 18 Commons as a Solution 20 Commons History: England, Mongolia, and India 23 Successful Commons 32 Ecologically Failed Commons 37 2.Culture in Common? 43 Commons as an Economic Solution 47 Culture as a Means of Conservation 52 Culture versus Economics 56 The Gift Economy 59 Contested Cultures 62 Misreading the Cultural Commons 67 3.Commons in Conflict 71 The Assault on the Commons 73 Enclosure and Colonization 79 Ecological Imperialism 84 The Radical Case for the Commons 86 Conflicted Commons 90 Commons, Conflict, and Gender 96 Continuing Commons 98 4.Questions for Good Ancestors 101 How Do We Research the Commons? 105 How Can the Commons Sustain the Environment? 110 How Do We Socially Share? 114 How Do We Fight the Crab ? 119 How Do We Love the Land? 126 Before Time People 129 Notes 137 Selected Readings on the Commons 155 Index 157
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