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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade Review“This broad-ranging and ambitious book, edited by J.R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin, sees the welcome convergence of two fertile historiographical trends of the past several decades: globalism and environmentalism. . . Nevertheless, the editors have produced a volume of a consistently high standard, with all the essays of good quality.” (English Historical Review, 1 August 2014)
“In 28 chapters, the book provides a broad introduction that is aimed at historians with an interest in striking topics and issues as well as at environmental history researchers wishing to widen or deepen their knowledge.” (H-Soz-u-Kult, June 2014)
"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, Vol. 28 no. 1, 2014)
"Those whose interest is world environmental history will find this book a pleasure to read from cover to cover, and the bibliographies are current and extensive." (Choice, September 2013)
Table of ContentsList of Maps x
Notes on Contributors xi
Acknowledgments xv
Global Environmental History: An Introduction xvi
J. R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin
PART I TIMES 1
1 Global Environmental History: The First 150,000 Years 3
J. R. McNeill
2 The Ancient World, c. 500 BCE to 500 CE 18
J. Donald Hughes
3 The Medieval World, 500 to 1500 CE 39
Daniel Headrick
4 The (Modern) World since 1500 57
Robert B. Marks
PART II PLACES 79
5 Southeast Asia in Global Environmental History 81
Peter Boomgaard
6 Environmental History in Africa 96
Jane Carruthers
7 Latin America in Global Environmental History 116
Shawn W. Miller
8 The United States in Global Environmental History 132
Erin Stewart Mauldin
9 The Arctic and Subarctic in Global Environmental History 153
Liza Piper
10 The Middle East in Global Environmental History 167
Alan Mikhail
11 Australia in Global Environmental History 182
Libby Robin
12 Oceania: The Environmental History of One-Third of the Globe 196
Paul D'Arcy
13 The Environmental History of the Soviet Union 222
Stephen Brain
PART III DRIVERS OF CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATIONS 245
14 The Grasslands of North America and Russia 247
David Moon
15 Global Forests 263
Nancy Langston
16 Fishing and Whaling 279
Micah S. Muscolino
17 Riverine Environments 297
Alan Roe
18 War and the Environment 319
Richard P. Tucker
19 Technology and the Environment 340
Paul Josephson
20 Cities and the Environment 360
Jordan Bauer and Martin V. Melosi
21 Evolution and the Environment 377
Edmund Russell
22 Climate Change in Global Environmental History 394
Sam White
23 Industrial Agriculture 411
Meredith McKittrick
24 Biological Exchange in Global Environmental History 433
J. R. McNeill
PART IV ENVIRONMENTAL THOUGHT AND ACTION 453
25 Environmentalism in Brazil: A Historical Perspective 455
José Augusto Pádua
26 Environmentalism and Environmental Movements in China since 1949 474
Bao Maohong
27 Religion and Environmentalism 493
Joachim Radkau
28 The Environmentalism of the Poor: Its Origins and Spread 513
Joan Martinez-Alier
Index 530
