The environment and world history / edited by Edmund Burke III and Kenneth Pomeranz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burke, Edmund, III, 1940- ed.

Pomeranz, Kenneth, ed.

Series:

California world history library ; 9.

The California world history library ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--History.

Human ecology.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--History.

Nature.

Environmental sciences--History.

Environmental sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since around 1500 C.E., humans have shaped the global environment in ways that were previously unimaginable. Bringing together leading environmental historians and world historians, this book offers an overview of global environmental history throughout this remarkable 500-year period. In eleven essays, the contributors examine the connections between environmental change and other major topics of early modern and modern world history: population growth, commercialization, imperialism, industrialization, the fossil fuel revolution, and more. Rather than attributing environmental change largely to European science, technology, and capitalism, the essays illuminate a series of culturally distinctive, yet often parallel developments arising in many parts of the world, leading to intensified exploitation of land and water. The wide range of regional studies-including some in Russia, China, the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Southern Africa, and Western Europe-together with the book's broader thematic essays makes The Environment and World History ideal for courses that seek to incorporate the environment and environmental change more fully into a truly integrative understanding of world history. CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Adas, William Beinart, Edmund Burke III, Mark Cioc, Kenneth Pomeranz, Mahesh Rangarajan, John F. Richards, Lise Sedrez, Douglas R. Weiner

Contents:

Front matter

THE CALIFORNIA WORLD HISTORY LIBRARY

CONTENTS

FIGURES, MAPS, AND TABLES

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1. Introduction: World History and Environmental History

2. The Big Story: Human History, Energy Regimes, and the Environment

3. Toward a Global System of Property Rights in Land

4. The Transformation of the Middle Eastern Environment, 1500 b.c.e.-2000 C.E..

5. The Transformation of China's Environment, 1500-2000

6. The Rhine as a World River

7. Continuity and Transformation: Colonial Rice Frontiers and Their Environmental Impact on the Great River Deltas of Mainland Southeast Asia

8. Beyond the Colonial Paradigm: African History and Environmental History in Large-Scale Perspective

9. Environmental Histories of India: Of States, Landscapes, and Ecologies

10. Latin American Environmental History: A Shifting Old/New Field

11. The Predatory Tribute-Taking State: A Framework for Understanding Russian Environmental History

Select Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-336) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612772573

9781282772571

1282772570

9780520943483

0520943481

OCLC:

794663678