Global Environmental History : An Introductory Reader

ISBN-13: 9780415520539 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 480 str.

Opis

An introduction to the field of global environmental history, featuring a range of expert contributions. It pulls together a number of leading perspectives on the field to cover the full historical depth of interactions between humankind and the natural world.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.