A companion to global environmental history
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Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell companions to history
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118279519 |
Item Description: | Includes index. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 544 p.) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
1444335340 9781444335347 9781118279519 1118279514 9781118381380 (electronic bk.) 1118381386 (electronic bk.) |
Index Number: | GF13 |
CLC: | X-09 |
Contents: | Global environmental history: an introduction / J. R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin -- Global environmental history: the first 150,000 years / J. R. McNeill -- The ancient world, c. 500 BCE to 500 CE / J. Donald Hughes -- The medieval world, 500 to 1500 CE / Daniel Headrick -- The (modern) world since 1500 / Robert B. Marks -- Southeast Asia in global environmental history / Peter Boomgaard -- Environmental history in Africa / Jane Carruthers -- Latin America in global environmental history / Shawn W. Miller -- The United States in global environmental history / Erin Stewart Mauldin -- The Arctic and subarctic in global environmental history / Liza Piper -- The Middle East in global environmental history / Alan Mikhail -- Australia in global environmental history / Libby Robin -- Oceania: the environmental history of one-third of the globe / Paul D'Arcy -- The environmental history of the Soviet Union / Stephen Brain -- The grasslands of North America and Russia / David Moon -- Global forests / Nancy Langston -- Fishing and whaling / Micah S. Muscolino -- Riverine environments / Alan Roe -- War and the environment / Richard P. Tucker -- Technology and the environment / Paul Josephson -- Cities and the environment / Jordan Bauer and Martin V. Melosi -- Evolution and the environment / Edmund Russell -- Climate change in global environmental history / Sam White -- Industrial agriculture / Meredith McKittrick -- Biological exchange in global environmental history / J. R. McNeill -- Environmentalism in Brazil: a historical perspective / José Augusto Pádua -- Environmentalism and environmental movements in China since 1949 / Bao Maohong -- Religion and environmentalism / Joachim Radkau -- The environmentalism of the poor: its origins and spread / Joan Martinez-Alier. |