A Companion to Global Environmental History

J. R. McNeill , Erin Stewart Mauldin 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2012년 08월 22일 출간

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List of Maps x Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgments xv Global Environmental History: An Introduction xviJ. R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin PART I TIMES 11 Global Environmental History: The First 150,000 Years 3J. R. McNeill 2 The Ancient World, c. 500 BCE to 500 CE 18J. Donald Hughes 3 The Medieval World, 500 to 1500 CE 39Daniel Headrick 4 The (Modern) World since 1500 57Robert B. Marks PART II PLACES 79 5 Southeast Asia in Global Environmental History 81Peter Boomgaard 6 Environmental History in Africa 96Jane Carruthers 7 Latin America in Global Environmental History 116Shawn W. Miller 8 The United States in Global Environmental History 132Erin Stewart Mauldin 9 The Arctic and Subarctic in Global Environmental History 153Liza Piper 10 The Middle East in Global Environmental History 167Alan Mikhail 11 Australia in Global Environmental History 182Libby Robin 12 Oceania: The Environmental History of One-Third of the Globe 196Paul D'Arcy 13 The Environmental History of the Soviet Union 222Stephen Brain PART III DRIVERS OF CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATIONS 245&14 The Grasslands of North America and Russia 247David Moon 15 Global Forests 263Nancy Langston 16 Fishing and Whaling 279Micah S. Muscolino 17 Riverine Environments 297Alan Roe 18 War and the Environment 319Richard P. Tucker 19 Technology and the Environment 340Paul Josephson 20 Cities and the Environment 360Jordan Bauer and Martin V. Melosi 21 Evolution and the Environment 377Edmund Russell 22

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“Those whose interest is world environmental history will find this book a pleasure to read from cover to cover, and the bibliographies current and extensive” Choice “There is much in this book that will be of interest to environmentalists, geographers and politicians, and the general public. Environmental historians should find this a useful overview of their topic.” Reference Reviews

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저자(글) J. R. McNeill

J.R. McNeill is Professor of History at Georgetown University, where he held the Cinco Hermanos Chair in Environmental and International Affairs before becoming University Professor in 2006. His book Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World was listed by The Times as one of the best science books ever written. The book was co-winner of the World History Association and Forest History Society book prizes and runner-up for the BP Natural World book prize. McNeill has authored a number of other award-winning books on environmental history, and in 2010 he was awarded the Toynbee Prize for ‘academic and public contributions to humanity.' Erin Stewart Mauldin is an Assistant Professor of History at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. Her current project examines the ecological implications of the Civil War for agriculture in the U.S. South.

저자(글) Erin Stewart Mauldin