LEADER 04678nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910464892403321 005 20210623220825.0 010 $a1-282-77257-0 010 $a9786612772573 010 $a0-520-94348-1 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520943483 035 $a(CKB)3390000000007003 035 $a(EBL)922910 035 $a(OCoLC)794663678 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000436004 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11925686 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000436004 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10426737 035 $a(PQKB)10200547 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC922910 035 $a(OCoLC)670484281 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30793 035 $a(DE-B1597)519456 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520943483 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL922910 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10675748 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL277257 035 $a(EXLCZ)993390000000007003 100 $a20080916d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe environment and world history$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Edmund Burke III and Kenneth Pomeranz 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (381 p.) 225 1 $aThe California world history library ;$v9 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-25687-5 311 0 $a0-520-25688-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 317-336) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tTHE CALIFORNIA WORLD HISTORY LIBRARY --$tCONTENTS --$tFIGURES, MAPS, AND TABLES --$tPREFACE --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$t1. Introduction: World History and Environmental History --$t2. The Big Story: Human History, Energy Regimes, and the Environment --$t3. Toward a Global System of Property Rights in Land --$t4. The Transformation of the Middle Eastern Environment, 1500 b.c.e.-2000 C.E.. --$t5. The Transformation of China's Environment, 1500-2000 --$t6. The Rhine as a World River --$t7. Continuity and Transformation: Colonial Rice Frontiers and Their Environmental Impact on the Great River Deltas of Mainland Southeast Asia --$t8. Beyond the Colonial Paradigm: African History and Environmental History in Large-Scale Perspective --$t9. Environmental Histories of India: Of States, Landscapes, and Ecologies --$t10. Latin American Environmental History: A Shifting Old/New Field --$t11. The Predatory Tribute-Taking State: A Framework for Understanding Russian Environmental History --$tSelect Bibliography --$tList of Contributors --$tIndex 330 $aSince around 1500 C.E., humans have shaped the global environment in ways that were previously unimaginable. Bringing together leading environmental historians and world historians, this book offers an overview of global environmental history throughout this remarkable 500-year period. In eleven essays, the contributors examine the connections between environmental change and other major topics of early modern and modern world history: population growth, commercialization, imperialism, industrialization, the fossil fuel revolution, and more. Rather than attributing environmental change largely to European science, technology, and capitalism, the essays illuminate a series of culturally distinctive, yet often parallel developments arising in many parts of the world, leading to intensified exploitation of land and water. The wide range of regional studies-including some in Russia, China, the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Southern Africa, and Western Europe-together with the book's broader thematic essays makes The Environment and World History ideal for courses that seek to incorporate the environment and environmental change more fully into a truly integrative understanding of world history. CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Adas, William Beinart, Edmund Burke III, Mark Cioc, Kenneth Pomeranz, Mahesh Rangarajan, John F. Richards, Lise Sedrez, Douglas R. Weiner 410 0$aCalifornia world history library ;$v9. 606 $aHuman ecology$xHistory 606 $aNature$xEffect of human beings on$xHistory 606 $aEnvironmental sciences$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHuman ecology$xHistory. 615 0$aNature$xEffect of human beings on$xHistory. 615 0$aEnvironmental sciences$xHistory. 676 $a304.2 686 $aNB 5600$2rvk 702 $aBurke$b Edmund$f1940- 702 $aPomeranz$b Kenneth 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464892403321 996 $aThe environment and world history$92312871 997 $aUNINA