Global Environmental History An Introductory Reader

Name: Global Environmental History An Introductory Reader
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ISBN: 9780415520539

ISBN-10: 0415520533

ISBN-13: 9780415520539

Edition: 2012

Authors: John R. McNeill, Alan Roe

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An introduction to the rapidly developing field of global environmental history, edited by one of its foremost practitioners, and featuring a broad and thought-provoking range of expert contributions. Environmental history is a subject especially suited to global and transnational approaches and, over the course of the present generation, an increasing number of scholars have taken up the challenge that it presents. in this unique volume, John McNeill and Alan Roe pull together a number of leading perspectives on the field, chosen for their readability and representativeness, to cover the full historical depth of interactions between humankind and the natural world. The collection begins…

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List price: $46.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 11/8/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 454
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

J. R. McNeill is professor of history at Georgetown University. He is the author of "The Mountains of the Mediterranean World" & other works.




Global Perspectives



Changing Times: The Holocene Legacy




Dark is the World to Thee: A Historical Perspective on Environmental Forewarnings




Opportunities in Marine Environmental History




Gender and Environmental History




Forged in Fire: History, Land, and Anthropogenic Fire




Rubber, Blight, and Mosquitoes: Biogeography Meets the Global Economy




Animal Planet




Evolutionary History: Prospectus for a New Field




Ecological Imperialism: The Overseas Migration of Western Europeans as a Biological Phenomenon




Regional Perspectives



Environment and Society: Long-Term Trends in Latin American Mining




Exceptionalism in European Environmental History




Three Thousand Years of Unsustainable Growth: China's Environment from Archaic Times to the Present




The Predatory Tribute-Taking State: A Framework for Understanding Russian Environmental History




Ecology and Culture in West Africa




Environmentalisms



The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature




Ecology and the Poor: A Neglected Dimension of Latin American History




Conservation Movement in Post-War Japan