Global Environmental History

An Introductory Reader
Herausgeber: Mcneill, John R.; Roe, Alan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Global Environmental History introduces this rapidly developing field through a broad and thought-provoking range of expert contributions, it will be an essential resource for students of Environmental History and Global History.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 482
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 886g
• ISBN-13: 9780415520522
• ISBN-10: 0415520525
• Artikelnr.: 35054258

Autorenporträt

John R. McNeill is University Professor in the Department of History and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. His previous works include Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, winner of the Beveridge Prize of the American Historical Association, and Something New Under The Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-century World, winner of the World History Association Book Prize. Alan Roe is a Ph.D. student in Russian environmental history at the Department of History, Georgetown University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Global Perspectives 1. Changing Times: The Holocene Legacy William
Dickinson 2. Dark is the World to Thee: A Historical Perspective on
Environmental Forewarnings Teresa Kwiatowska and Alan Holland 3.
Opportunities in Marine Environmental History W. Jeffrey Bolster 4. Gender
and Environmental History Carolyn Merchant 5. Forged in Fire: History,
Land, and Anthropogenic Fire Stephen Pyne 6. Rubber, Blight, and
Mosquitoes: Biogeography Meets the Global Economy Donald Kennedy and
Marjorie Lucks 7. Animal Planet Harriet Ritvo 8. Evolutionary History:
Prospectus for a New Field Edmund Russell 9. Ecological Imperialism: The
Overseas Migration of Western Europeans as a Biological Phenomenon Alfred
Crosby Part 2: Regional Perspectives 10. Environment and Society: Long-Term
Trends in Latin American Mining Elizabeth Dore 11. Exceptionalism in
European Environmental History Joachim Radkau 12. Three Thousand Years of
Unsustainable Growth: China's Environment from Archaic Times to the Present
Mark Elvin 13. The Predatory Tribute-Taking State: A Framework for
Understanding Russian Environmental History Douglas Weiner 14. Ecology and
Culture in West Africa James L. Webb Part 3: Environmentalisms 15. The
Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature William
Cronon 16. Ecology and the Poor: A Neglected Dimension of Latin American
History Joan Martinez-Alier 17. Conservation Movement in Post-War Japan
Catherine Knight