Taina Syrjämaa
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
This book examines an extremely topical phenomenon, the massive industrial exploitation of animals, from a previously neglected perspective. It explores the history and development of animal industries in Nordic countries from their establishment in the late nineteenth century to the present day. These countries are often considered to be progressive and advanced in animal protection, but consumption practices in this area are actually excessive in...
2) Locating the Global: Spaces, Networks and Interactions from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
This volume adds to the plurality of global histories by locating the global through its articulation and manifestation within particular localities. It accomplishes this by bringing together interlinked case-studies that analyse various temporal and spatial dimensions of the global in the local and the interactions between the local and the global. The case-studies apply a spatial approach to analyse how global questions of space, movement, networks,...