The Environment and World History /

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Since around 1500 C.E., humans have shaped the global environment in ways that were previously unimaginable. Bringing together leading environmental historians and world historians, this book offers an overview of global environmental history throughout this remarkable 500-year period. In eleven ess...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pomeranz, Kenneth (Editor), Burke, Edmund, III, 1940- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Umweltveränderung
Humanökologie
Historische Umweltforschung
Gesellschaft
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Human ecology.
Environmental sciences.
HISTORY > World.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Sciences de l'environnement > Histoire.
Homme > Influence sur la nature > Histoire.
Environmental sciences > History.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > History.
Human ecology > History.
History.
Electronic resource.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures, Maps, and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE: OVERVIEW; 1. Introduction: World History and Environmental History; 2. The Big Story: Human History, Energy Regimes, and the Environment; 3. Toward a Global System of Property Rights in Land; PART TWO: RIVERS, REGIONS, AND DEVELOPMENTALISM; 4. The Transformation of the Middle Eastern Environment, 1500 B.C.E.-2000 C.E.; 5. The Transformation of China's Environment, 1500-2000; 6. The Rhine as a World River.
  • 7. Continuity and Transformation: Colonial Rice Frontiers and Their Environmental Impact on the Great River Deltas of Mainland Southeast AsiaPART THREE: LANDSCAPES, CONQUESTS, COMMUNITIES, AND THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE; 8. Beyond the Colonial Paradigm: African History and Environmental History in Large-Scale Perspective; 9. Environmental Histories of India: Of States, Landscapes, and Ecologies; 10. Latin American Environmental History: A Shifting Old/New Field; 11. The Predatory Tribute-Taking State: A Framework for Understanding Russian Environmental History; Select Bibliography.
  • List of ContributorsIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

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