
Title:
A companion to global environmental history
Author:
McNeill, John Robert, editor.
ISBN:
9781119988229
9781119988212
9781119988205
Edition:
Second edition.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Series:
Wiley-Blackwell companions to world history
Wiley-Blackwell companions to history.
Contents:
Global Environmental History: An Updated Introduction / J. R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin -- Global Environmental History: The First 300,000 Years / J. R. McNeill -- The Ancient World, c. 500 BCE to 500 CE / J. Donald Hughes and J.R. McNeill -- The Medieval World, 500 to 1500 CE / Daniel Headrick -- The (Modern) World since 1500 / Robert B. Marks and J.R. McNeill -- The Environmental History of Southeast Asia / Peter Boomgaard and Michitake Aso -- The Environmental History of Africa / Jeremiah Kitunda -- The Environmental History of Latin America / Shawn W. Miller -- The Environmental History of the United States / Erin Stewart Mauldin -- The Environmental History of the Arctic and Subarctic / Liza Piper -- The Environmental History of the Middle East / Alan Mikhail and Faisal Husain -- The Environmental History of Australia / Emily O'Gorman and Libby Robin -- Oceania: The Environmental History of One-Third of the Globe / Paul D'Arcy -- The Environmental History of the Soviet Union / Stephen Brain -- The Environmental History of China / Yuan Julian Chen -- The Environmental History of South Asia / Michael H. Fisher -- The Environmental History of Central Eurasia / Yuan Gao -- The Grasslands of North America and Northern Eurasia / David Moon -- Global Forests / Nancy Langston and Michael J. Dockry -- Fishing and Whaling / Micah S. Muscolino -- Riverine Environments / Alan Roe and Iftekhar Iqbal -- War and the Environment / Richard P. Tucker and J.R. McNeill -- Technology and the Environment / Paul Josephson -- Evolution and the Environment / Edmund Russell -- Climate Change in Global Environmental History / Sam White -- Industrial Agriculture / Meredith McKittrick -- Biological Exchange in Global Environmental History / J. R. McNeill -- Urban Environmental History / Janna Coomans -- Environmentalism in Brazil: A Historical Perspective / Jose̹ Augusto Pa̹dua -- Environmentalism and Environmental Movements in China since 1949 / Bao Maohong -- Religion and Environmentalism / Joachim Radkau -- The Environmentalism of the Poor: Its Origins and Spread / Joan Martinez-Alier -- Global Environmental Governance / Iris Borowy -- Modern Environmentalism in Europe / Jan-Henrik Meyer -- Index
Abstract:
"The Companion to Global Environmental History, 2nd Edition, by John McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin provides an ideal point of reference for the field of Environmental History. It is a comprehensive cross-section of current research in the field, serving as a jumping off point for further studies. Global Environmental History focuses on how humans shape and are shaped by their environment. It welcomes methodologies from Archaeology, History, Politics, Geography and the sciences to create insights into the complex and dynamic relationship between humans and nature. Since its first emergence in the 1960s and 1970s, environmental history has generated ground-breaking research. This new edition will fascinate readers with its thorough research by preeminent scholars in the field"-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note:
John Wiley and Sons
Subject Term:
Electronic Access:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119988229Copies:
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