Global environmental history : an introductory reader / edited by John R. McNeill and Alan Roe.

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TextPublication details: New York : Routledge, c2013.Description: xxvi, 449 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:

9780415520539 (pbk.)
9780415520522 (hbk.)

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304.209 GLO 23 006706

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Table of contents

Contents:

Changing times : the Holocene legacy / William R. Dickinson -- Dark is the world to thee : a historical perspective on environmental forewarnings / Teresa Kwiatkowska and Alan Holland -- Opportunities in marine environmental history / W. Jeffrey Bolster -- Gender and environmental history / Carolyn Merchant -- Consumed by either fire or fire : a review of the environmental consequences of anthropogenic fire / Stephen J. Pyne -- Rubber, blight, and mosquitos : biogeography meets the global economy / Donald Kennedy and Marjorie Lucks -- Animal planet / Harriet Ritvo -- Evolutionary history : prospectus for a new field / Edmund Russell -- Ecological imperialism : the overseas migration of western Europeans as a biological phenomenon / Alfred W. Crosby -- Environment and society : long-term trends in Latin American mining / Elizabeth Dore -- Exceptionalism in European environmental history / Joachim Radkau -- Three thousand years of unsustainable growth : China's environment from archaic times to the present / Mark Elvin -- The predatory tribute-taking state : a framework for understanding Russian environmental history / Douglas R. Wiener -- Ecology and culture in West Africa / James L.A. Webb Jr. -- The trouble with wilderness : or, getting back to the wrong nature / William Cronon -- 'Annihilating natural productions' : nature's economy, colonial crisis and the origins of Brazilian political environmentalism (1786-1810) / José A. Pádua -- Conservation movement in post-war Japan / Catherine Knight -- The authoritarian biologist and the arrogance of anti-humanism : wildlife conservation in the third world / Ramachandra Guha.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Changing times : the Holocene legacy / William R. Dickinson --
Dark is the world to thee : a historical perspective on environmental forewarnings / Teresa Kwiatkowska and Alan Holland --
Opportunities in marine environmental history / W. Jeffrey Bolster --
Gender and environmental history / Carolyn Merchant --
Consumed by either fire or fire : a review of the environmental consequences of anthropogenic fire / Stephen J. Pyne --
Rubber, blight, and mosquitos : biogeography meets the global economy / Donald Kennedy and Marjorie Lucks --
Animal planet / Harriet Ritvo --
Evolutionary history : prospectus for a new field / Edmund Russell --
Ecological imperialism : the overseas migration of western Europeans as a biological phenomenon / Alfred W. Crosby --
Environment and society : long-term trends in Latin American mining / Elizabeth Dore --
Exceptionalism in European environmental history / Joachim Radkau --
Three thousand years of unsustainable growth : China's environment from archaic times to the present / Mark Elvin --
The predatory tribute-taking state : a framework for understanding Russian environmental history / Douglas R. Wiener --
Ecology and culture in West Africa / James L.A. Webb Jr. --
The trouble with wilderness : or, getting back to the wrong nature / William Cronon --
'Annihilating natural productions' : nature's economy, colonial crisis and the origins of Brazilian political environmentalism (1786-1810) / José A. Pádua --
Conservation movement in post-war Japan / Catherine Knight --
The authoritarian biologist and the arrogance of anti-humanism : wildlife conservation in the third world / Ramachandra Guha.

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.

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