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.
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.
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
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
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