Companion to Global Environmental History

Name: Companion to Global Environmental History
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ISBN: 9781444335347

ISBN-10: 1444335340

ISBN-13: 9781444335347

Edition: 2012

Authors: J. R. McNeill, Erin Stewart Mauldin, Erin Stewart Mauldin

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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 dayExplores 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

Book details

List price: $282.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/5/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 568
Size: 7.20" wide x 10.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 2.288
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.



List of Maps


Notes on Contributors


Acknowledgments


Global Environmental History: An Introduction




Times



Global Environmental History: The First 150,000 Years




The Ancient World, c. 500 BCE to 500 CE




The Medieval World, 500 to 1500 CE




The (Modern) World since 1500




Places



Southeast Asia in Global Environmental History




Environmental History in Africa




Latin America in Global Environmental History




The United States in Global Environmental History




The Arctic and Subarctic in Global Environmental History




The Middle East in Global Environmental History




Australia in Global Environmental History




Oceania: The Environmental History of One-Third of the Globe




The Environmental History of the Soviet Union




Drivers of Change and Environmental Transformations



The Grasslands of North America and Russia




Global Forests




Fishing and Whaling




Riverine Environments




War and the Environment




Technology and the Environment




Cities and the Environment




Evolution and the Environment




Climate Change in Global Environmental History




Industrial Agriculture




Biological Exchange in Global Environmental History




Environmental Thought and Action



Environmentalism in Brazil: A Historical Perspective




Environmentalism and Environmental Movements in China since 1949




Religion and Environmentalism




The Environmentalism of the Poor: Its Origins and Spread



Index