A COMPANION TO GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY Equips both specialists and newcomers with the historical, intellectual, and political context for engagement with the environment Providing multiple points of entry into a dynamic, fast-growing field, A Companion to Global Environmental History explores the many contours of the relationship between human societies and the natural world on which they depend. Bringing together essays by an international roster of both established experts and emerging scholars, this volume covers a uniquely broad range of temporal, geographic, thematic, and contextual…mehr
A COMPANION TO GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY Equips both specialists and newcomers with the historical, intellectual, and political context for engagement with the environment Providing multiple points of entry into a dynamic, fast-growing field, A Companion to Global Environmental History explores the many contours of the relationship between human societies and the natural world on which they depend. Bringing together essays by an international roster of both established experts and emerging scholars, this volume covers a uniquely broad range of temporal, geographic, thematic, and contextual approaches to the practice of global environmental history. Thirty-three detailed chapters describe how the relationship between society and nature has changed over time, examine the various drivers of change and environmental transformations, survey different types of environmental thought and action around the world, and more. Now in its second edition, the Companion is fully revised to reflect major research developments and new trajectories within the field. Updated chapters that present new evidence for longstanding debates and innovative applications of environmental history are accompanied by six entirely new chapters on India, China, Africa, early modern cities, global environmental governance, and European environmentalism. Offering fresh insights into environmental thought, culture, policy, and politics, A Companion to Global Environmental History, Second Edition, is an ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate students and an invaluable reference for scholars, researchers, and environmental historians.
J. R. McNeill is the former President of the American Society for Environmental History and the American Historical Association. The author or editor of 23 books, McNeill is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academia Europaea, and the Royal Academy of Morocco. He received the Heineken Award for History from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018. Erin Stewart Mauldin is the John Hope Franklin Chair of Southern History at the University of South Florida. She is the author of the award-winning Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South and the co-editor of the Environmental History and the American South series.
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List of Maps and Figures viii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiv Global Environmental History: An Updated Introduction xv J. R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin Part I Times 1 1 Global Environmental History: The First 300,000 Years 3 J. R. McNeill 2 The Ancient World, c. 500 bce- 500 ce 16 J. Donald Hughes and J. R. McNeill 3 The Medieval World, 500- 1500 ce 34 Daniel Headrick 4 The (Modern) World Since 1500 49 Robert B. Marks and J. R. McNeill Part II Places 63 5 The Environmental History of Southeast Asia 65 Peter Boomgaard and Michitake Aso 6 The Environmental History of Africa 80 Jeremiah Kitunda 7 The Environmental History of Latin America 93 Shawn W. Miller 8 The Environmental History of the United States 109 Erin Stewart Mauldin 9 The Environmental History of the Arctic and Subarctic 124 Liza Piper 10 The Environmental History of the Middle East 137 Alan Mikhail and Faisal H. Husain 11 The Environmental History of Australia 151 Emily O'Gorman and Libby Robin 12 Oceania: The Environmental History of One-Third of the Globe 165 Paul D'Arcy 13 The Environmental History of the Soviet Union 187 Stephen Brain 14 The Environmental History of China 205 Yuan Julian Chen 15 The Environmental History of South Asia 221 Michael H. Fisher 16 The Environmental History of Central Eurasia 244 Yuan Gao Part III Drivers of Change and Environmental Transformations 259 17 The Grasslands of North America and Northern Eurasia 261 David Moon 18 Global Forests 275 Nancy Langston and Michael J. Dockry 19 Fishing and Whaling 288 Micah S. Muscolino 20 Riverine Environments 304 Alan Roe and Iftekhar Iqbal 21 War and the Environment 314 Richard P. Tucker and J.R. McNeill 22 Technology and the Environment 331 Paul Josephson 23 Evolution and the Environment 349 Edmund Russell 24 Climate Change in Global Environmental History 361 Sam White 25 Industrial Agriculture 375 Meredith McKittrick 26 Biological Exchange in Global Environmental History 395 J. R. McNeill 27 Urban Environmental History 412 Janna Coomans Part IV Environmental Thought and Action 427 28 Environmentalism in Brazil: A Historical Perspective 429 José Augusto Pádua 29 Environmentalism and Environmental Movements in China Since 1949 448 Bao Maohong 30 Religion and Environmentalism 463 Joachim Radkau 31 The Environmentalism of the Poor: Its Origins and Spread 479 Joan Martinez-Alier 32 Global Environmental Governance 493 Iris Borowy 33 Modern Environmentalism in Europe 510 Jan-Henrik Meyer Index 527
List of Maps and Figures viii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiv Global Environmental History: An Updated Introduction xv J. R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin Part I Times 1 1 Global Environmental History: The First 300,000 Years 3 J. R. McNeill 2 The Ancient World, c. 500 bce- 500 ce 16 J. Donald Hughes and J. R. McNeill 3 The Medieval World, 500- 1500 ce 34 Daniel Headrick 4 The (Modern) World Since 1500 49 Robert B. Marks and J. R. McNeill Part II Places 63 5 The Environmental History of Southeast Asia 65 Peter Boomgaard and Michitake Aso 6 The Environmental History of Africa 80 Jeremiah Kitunda 7 The Environmental History of Latin America 93 Shawn W. Miller 8 The Environmental History of the United States 109 Erin Stewart Mauldin 9 The Environmental History of the Arctic and Subarctic 124 Liza Piper 10 The Environmental History of the Middle East 137 Alan Mikhail and Faisal H. Husain 11 The Environmental History of Australia 151 Emily O'Gorman and Libby Robin 12 Oceania: The Environmental History of One-Third of the Globe 165 Paul D'Arcy 13 The Environmental History of the Soviet Union 187 Stephen Brain 14 The Environmental History of China 205 Yuan Julian Chen 15 The Environmental History of South Asia 221 Michael H. Fisher 16 The Environmental History of Central Eurasia 244 Yuan Gao Part III Drivers of Change and Environmental Transformations 259 17 The Grasslands of North America and Northern Eurasia 261 David Moon 18 Global Forests 275 Nancy Langston and Michael J. Dockry 19 Fishing and Whaling 288 Micah S. Muscolino 20 Riverine Environments 304 Alan Roe and Iftekhar Iqbal 21 War and the Environment 314 Richard P. Tucker and J.R. McNeill 22 Technology and the Environment 331 Paul Josephson 23 Evolution and the Environment 349 Edmund Russell 24 Climate Change in Global Environmental History 361 Sam White 25 Industrial Agriculture 375 Meredith McKittrick 26 Biological Exchange in Global Environmental History 395 J. R. McNeill 27 Urban Environmental History 412 Janna Coomans Part IV Environmental Thought and Action 427 28 Environmentalism in Brazil: A Historical Perspective 429 José Augusto Pádua 29 Environmentalism and Environmental Movements in China Since 1949 448 Bao Maohong 30 Religion and Environmentalism 463 Joachim Radkau 31 The Environmentalism of the Poor: Its Origins and Spread 479 Joan Martinez-Alier 32 Global Environmental Governance 493 Iris Borowy 33 Modern Environmentalism in Europe 510 Jan-Henrik Meyer Index 527
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