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English
Wiley-Blackwell
24 April 2015
The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past developments, current controversies, and future developments for specialists and newcomers alike.

Combines temporal, geographic, thematic and contextual approaches from prehistory to the present day Explores environmental thought and action around the world, to give readers a cultural, intellectual and political context for engagement with the environment in modern times Brings together environmental historians from around the world, including scholars from South Africa, Brazil, Germany, and China
Edited by:   , ,
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 246mm,  Width: 173mm,  Spine: 26mm
Weight:   857g
ISBN:   9781118977538
ISBN 10:   111897753X
Series:   Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
Pages:   576
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
List of Maps x  Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgments xv Global Environmental History: An Introduction xvi J. R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin Part I Times 1  1 Global Environmental History: The First 150,000 Years 3  J. R. McNeill  2 The Ancient World, c. 500 BCE to 500 CE 18  J. Donald Hughes  3 The Medieval World, 500 to 1500 CE 39  Daniel Headrick  4 The (Modern) World since 1500 57  Robert B. Marks  Part II Places79  5 Southeast Asia in Global Environmental History 81  Peter Boomgaard  6 Environmental History in Africa 96  Jane Carruthers  7 Latin America in Global Environmental History 116  Shawn W. Miller  8 The United States in Global Environmental History 132  Erin Stewart Mauldin  9 The Arctic and Subarctic in Global Environmental History 153  Liza Piper  10 The Middle East in Global Environmental History 167  Alan Mikhail  11 Australia in Global Environmental History 182  Libby Robin  12 Oceania: The Environmental History of One-Third of the Globe 196  Paul D ’ Arcy  13 The Environmental History of the Soviet Union 222  Stephen Brain  Part III Drivers Of Change And Environmental Transformations 245 14 The Grasslands of North America and Russia 247 David Moon 15 Global Forests 263  Nancy Langston  16 Fishing and Whaling 279  Micah S. Muscolino 17 Riverine Environments 297  Alan Roe  18 War and the Environment 319  Richard P. Tucker  19 Technology and the Environment 340  Paul Josephson  20 Cities and the Environment 360  Jordan Bauer and Martin V. Melosi  21 Evolution and the Environment 377  Edmund Russell  22 Climate Change in Global Environmental History 394  Sam White  23 Industrial Agriculture 411  Meredith McKittrick  24 Biological Exchange in Global Environmental History 433  J. R. McNeill  Part IV Environmental Thought And Action 453  25 Environmentalism in Brazil: A Historical Perspective 455  José Augusto Pádua 26 Environmentalism and Environmental Movements in China since 1949 474  Bao Maohong  27 Religion and Environmentalism 493  Joachim Radkau  28 The Environmentalism of the Poor: Its Origins and Spread 513  Joan Martinez-Alier Index 530

J.R. McNeill is Professor of History at Georgetown University, where he held the Cinco Hermanos Chair in Environmental and International Affairs before becoming University Professor in 2006. His book Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World was listed by The Times as one of the best science books ever written. The book was co-winner of the World History Association and Forest History Society book prizes and runner-up for the BP Natural World book prize. McNeill has authored a number of other award-winning books on environmental history, and in 2010 he was awarded the Toynbee Prize for ‘academic and public contributions to humanity.' Erin Stewart Mauldin is an Assistant Professor of History at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. Her current project examines the ecological implications of the Civil War for agriculture in the U.S. South.

Reviews for A Companion to Global Environmental History

?Those whose interest is world environmental history will find this book a pleasure to read from cover to cover, and the bibliographies current and extensive? Choice ?There is much in this book that will be of interest to environmentalists, geographers and politicians, and the general public. Environmental historians should find this a useful overview of their topic.? Reference Reviews


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