Research Catalog

Title

Rethinking environmental history : world-system history and global environmental change / edited by Alf Hornborg, J.R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier.

Publication

Lanham : AltaMira Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

• Hornborg, Alf.
• McNeill, John Robert.
• Martínez Alier, Juan.

Description

xi, 408 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Globalization and the environment series

Uniform Title

Globalization and the environment.

Subject

• Global environmental change > History
• World history

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: environmental history as political ecology / Alf Hornborg -- Pt. I. The environment in world-system history : tracing social processes in nature -- Ch. 1. Environmental impacts of the Roman economy and social structure : Augustus to Diocletian / J. Donald Hughes -- Ch. 2. "People said extinction was not possible" : 2000 years of environmental change in south China / Robert B. Marks -- Ch. 3. Precolonial landesque capital : a global perspective / Mats Widgren -- Ch. 4. Food, war, and crisis : the seventeenth century Swedish empire / Janken Myrdal -- Ch. 5. The role of deforestation in Earth and world system integration / Michael Williams -- Ch. 6. Silver, ecology, and the origins of the modern world, 1450-1640 / Jason W. Moore -- Ch. 7. Trade, "trinkets," and environmental change at the edge of world-systems : political ecology and the East African ivory trade / N. Thomas Hakansson -- Ch. 8. Steps to an environmental history of the western Llanos of Venezuela : a world-system perspective / Rafael A. Gasson -- Ch. 9. The extractive economy : an early phase of the globalization of diet, and its environmental consequences / Richard Wilk -- Ch. 10. Yellow Jack and geopolitics : environment, epidemics, and the struggles for empire in the American tropics, 1640-1830 / J. R. McNeill -- Pt. II. Ecology and unequal exchange : unraveling environmental injustice in the modern world -- Ch. 11. Marxism, social metabolism, and international trade / Joan Martinez-Alier -- Ch. 12. Natural values and the physical inevitability of uneven development under capitalism / Stephen G. Bunker -- Ch. 13. Footprints in the cotton fields : the industrial revolution as time-space appropriation and environmental load displacement / Alf Hornborg -- Ch. 14. Uneven ecological exchange and consumption-based environmental impacts : a cross-national investigation / Andrew K. Jorgenson and James Rice -- Ch. 15. Combining social metabolism and input-output economics to account for ecologically unequal trade / Helga Weisz -- Ch. 16. Physical trade flows of pollution-intensive products : historical trends in Europe and the world / Roldan Muradian and Stefan Giljum -- Ch. 17. Environmental issues at the U.S.-Mexico border and the unequal territorialization of value / Josiah Heyman -- Ch. 18. Surrogate money, technology, and the expansion of savanna soybeans in Brazil / William H. Fisher -- Ch. 19. Scale and dependency in world-systems : local societies in convergent evolution / Joseph A. Tainter -- Ch. 20. The ecology and the economy : what is rational? / Immanuel Wallerstein.

ISBN

• 9780759110274 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0759110271 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780759110281 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 075911028X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006021775
• 9780759110274
• 9780759110281

OCLC

• OCM70265531
• 70265531
• SCSB-5319145

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries