A companion to global environmental history [[electronic resource]] / edited by J.R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910265223103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, England, : Wiley-Blackwell, c2012
• ISBN: 1-78268-468-9; 1-118-38138-6; 1-118-27951-4; 1-118-27953-0; 1-299-15785-8; 1-118-27954-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxiv, 544 p. ) : maps
• Collana: Wiley-Blackwell Companions to History
• Altri autori (Persone): MauldinErin Stewart; McNeillJohn Robert
• Disciplina: 304.209
• Soggetti: Human ecology - History; Global environmental change - History; Environmental policy - History; Environmental protection - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: List of Maps x Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgments xv Global Environmental History: An Introduction xvi J. R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin PART I TIMES 1 1 Global Environmental History: The First 150,000 Years 3 J. R. McNeill 2 The Ancient World, c. 500 BCE to 500 CE 18 J. Donald Hughes 3 The Medieval World, 500 to 1500 CE 39 Daniel Headrick 4 The (Modern) World since 1500 57 Robert B. Marks PART II PLACES 79 5 Southeast Asia in Global Environmental History 81 Peter Boomgaard 6 Environmental History in Africa 96 Jane Carruthers 7 Latin America in Global Environmental History 116 Shawn W. Miller 8 The United States in Global Environmental History 132 Erin Stewart Mauldin 9 The Arctic and Subarctic in Global Environmental History 153 Liza Piper 10 The Middle East in Global Environmental History 167 Alan Mikhail 11 Australia in Global Environmental History 182 Libby Robin ; 12 Oceania: The Environmental History of One-Third of the Globe 196 Paul D'Arcy 13 The Environmental History of the Soviet Union 222 Stephen Brain PART III DRIVERS OF CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATIONS 245 14 The Grasslands of North America and Russia 247 David Moon 15 Global Forests 263 Nancy Langston 16 Fishing and Whaling 279 Micah S. Muscolino 17 Riverine Environments 297 Alan Roe 18 War and the Environment 319 Richard P. Tucker 19 Technology and the Environment 340 Paul Josephson 20 Cities and the Environment 360 Jordan Bauer and Martin V. Melosi 21 Evolution and the Environment 377 Edmund Russell 22 Climate Change in Global Environmental History 394 Sam White 23 Industrial Agriculture 411 Meredith McKittrick 24 Biological Exchange in Global Environmental History 433 J. R. McNeill PART IV ENVIRONMENTAL THOUGHT AND ACTION 453 25 Environmentalism in Brazil: A Historical Perspective 455 Jose Augusto Padua 26 Environmentalism and Environmental Movements in China since 1949 474 Bao Maohong 27 Religion and Environmentalism 493 Joachim Radkau 28 The Environmentalism of the Poor: Its Origins and Spread 513 Joan Martinez-Alier Index 530
• Sommario/riassunto: This title offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of global environmental history, providing an essential road map to past interpretations, current controversies, and future developments for specialists and newcomers alike.