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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Environmental History as Political Ecology | |
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| The Environment in World-System History: Tracing Social Processes in Nature | |
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| Environmental Impacts of the Roman Economy and Social Structure: Augustus to Diocletian | |
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| "People Said Extinction Was Not Possible": Two Thousand Years of Environmental Change in South China | |
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| Precolonial Landesque Capital: A Global Perspective | |
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| Food, War, and Crisis: The Seventeenth-Century Swedish Empire | |
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| The Role of Deforestation in Earth and World-System Integration | |
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| Silver, Ecology, and the Origins of the Modern World, 1450-1640 | |
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| Trade, "Trinkets," and Environmental Change at the Edge of World-Systems: Political Ecology and the East African Ivory Trade | |
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| Steps to an Environmental History of the Western Llanos of Venezuela: A World-System Perspective | |
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| The Extractive Economy: An Early Phase of the Globalization of Diet, and Its Environmental Consequences | |
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| Yellow Jack and Geopolitics: Environment, Epidemics, and the Struggles for Empire in the American Tropics, 1640-1830 | |
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| Ecology and Unequal Exchange: Unraveling Environmental Injustice in the Modern World | |
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| Marxism, Social Metabolism, and International Trade | |
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| Natural Values and the Physical Inevitability of Uneven Development under Capitalism | |
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| Footprints in the Cotton Fields: The Industrial Revolution as Time-Space Appropriation and Environmental Load Displacement | |
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| Uneven Ecological Exchange and Consumption-Based Environmental Impacts: A Cross-National Investigation | |
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| Combining Social Metabolism and Input-Output Analyses to Account for Ecologically Unequal Trade | |
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| Physical Trade Flows of Pollution-Intensive Products: Historical Trends in Europe and the World | |
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| Environmental Issues at the U.S.-Mexico Border and the Unequal Territorialization of Value | |
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| Surrogate Money, Technology, and the Expansion of Savanna Soybeans in Brazil | |
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| Scale and Dependency in World-Systems: Local Societies in Convergent Evolution | |
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| The Ecology and the Economy: What Is Rational? | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Contributors | |