Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• McNeill, John Robert
• Mauldin, Erin Stewart

Description

xxiv, 544 pages : maps; 25 cm

Summary

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

Series Statement

Wiley-Blackwell companions to world history

Uniform Title

Wiley Blackwell companions to world history.

Alternative Title

Global environmental history

Subjects

• Environmental policy > History > Cross-cultural studies
• Human ecology > History > Cross-cultural studies
• Global environmental change > History > Cross-cultural studies
• Environmental protection > History > Cross-cultural studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

GF13

ISBN

• 9781444335347
• 1444335340

OCLC

921883956

Title

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

Publisher

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Wiley-Blackwell companions to world history

Wiley Blackwell companions to world history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

McNeill, John Robert, editor.

Mauldin, Erin Stewart, editor.

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR GF13 .C63 2012