A companion to global environmental history /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: McNeill, John Robert, Mauldin, Erin Stewart
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2012.
• Σειρά: Blackwell companions to history.
• Θέματα: Human ecology > History > Cross-cultural studies.; Global environmental change > History > Cross-cultural studies.; Environmental policy > History > Cross-cultural studies.; Environmental protection > History > Cross-cultural studies.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.; Environmental policy.; Environmental protection.; Global environmental change.; Human ecology.; Historische Umweltforschung; Miljöpolitik > historia.; Miljöskydd > historia.; Electronic books.; Cross-cultural studies.; History.

The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past developments, current controversies, and future developments for specialists and newcomers alike.Combines...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Global Environmental History: An Introduction / J.R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldi
• PART I. Times. 1 Global Environmental History: The First 150,000 Years / J.R. McNeill ; 2 The Ancient World, c. 500 BCE to 500 CE / J. Donald Hughes ; 3 The Medieval World, 500 to 1500 CE / Daniel Headrick ; 4 The (Modern) World since 1500 / Robert B. Marks.
• PART II. Places. 5 Southeast Asia in Global Environmental History / Peter Boomgaard ; 6 Environmental History in Africa / Jane Carruthers ; 7 Latin America in Global Environmental History / Shawn W. Miller ; 8 The United States in Global Environmental History / Erin Stewart Mauldin ; 9 The Arctic and Subarctic in Global Environmental History / Liza Piper ; 10 The Middle East in Global Environmental History / Alan Mikhail ; 11 Australia in Global Environmental History / Libby Robin ; 12 Oceania: The Environmental History of One-Third of the Globe / Paul D'Arcy ; 13 The Environmental History of the Soviet Union / Stephen Brain.
• PART III. Drivers of change and environmental transformations. 14 The Grasslands of North America and Russia / David Moon ; 15 Global Forests / Nancy Langston ; 16 Fishing and Whaling / Micah S. Muscolino ; 17 Riverine Environments / Alan Roe ; 18 War and the Environment / Richard P. Tucker ; 19 Technology and the Environment / Paul Josephson ; 20 Cities and the Environment / Jordan Bauer and Martin V. Melosi ; 21 Evolution and the Environment / Edmund Russell ; 22 Climate Change in Global Environmental History / Sam White ; 23 Industrial Agriculture / Meredith McKittrick ; 24 Biological Exchange in Global Environmental History / J.R. McNeill.
• PART IV. Environmental thought and action. 25 Environmentalism in Brazil: A Historical Perspective / José Augusto Pádua ; 26 Environmentalism and Environmental Movements in China since 1949 / Bao Maohong ; 27 Religion and Environmentalism / Joachim Radkau ; 28 The Environmentalism of the Poor: Its Origins and Spread / Joan Martinez-Alier.