| Description |
xi, 408 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Globalization and the environment series
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Globalization and the environment.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Environmental history as political ecology / Alf Hornborg -- Environmental impacts of the Roman economy and social structure : Augustus to Diocletian / J. Donald Hughes -- "People said extinction was not possible" : two thousand years of environmental change in South China / Robert B. Marks -- Precolonial landesque capital : a global perspective / Mats Widgren -- Food, war, and crisis : the seventeenth century Swedish empire / Janken Myrdal -- The role of deforestation in earth and world-system integration / Michael Williams -- Silver, ecology, and the origins of the modern world, 1450-1640 / Jason W. Moore -- Trade, "trinkets," and environmental change at the edge of world-systems : political ecology and the East African ivory trade / N. Thomas Håkansson -- Steps to an environmental history of the western Llanos of Venezuela : a world-system perspective / Rafael A. Gassón -- The extractive economy : an early phase of the globalization of diet, and its environmental consequences / Richard Wilk -- Yellow jack and geopolitics : environment, epidemics, and the struggles for empire in the American tropics, 1640-1830 / J.R. McNeill -- Marxism, social metabolism, and international trade / Joan Martínez-Alier -- Natural values and the physical inevitability of uneven development under capitalism / Stephen G. Bunker -- Footprints in the cotton fields : the industrial revolution as time-space appropriation and environmental load displacement / Alf Hornborg -- Uneven ecological exchange and consumption-based environmental impacts : a cross-national investigation / Andrew K. Jorgenson and James Rice -- Combining social metabolism and input-output analyses to account for ecologically unequal trade / Helga Weisz -- Physical trade flows of pollution-intensive products : historical trends in Europe and the world / Roldan Muradian and Stefan Giljum -- Environmental issues at the U.S.-Mexico border and the unequal territorialization of value / Josiah Heyman -- Surrogate money, technology, and the expansion of savanna soybeans in Brazil / William H. Fisher -- Scale and dependency in world-systems : local societies in convergent evolution / Joseph A. Tainter -- The ecology and the economy : what is rational? / Immanuel Wallerstein. |
| Subject |
Global environmental change -- History.
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Global environmental change. |
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History. |
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World history.
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World history. |
| Indexed Term |
Environmental history |
| Subject |
Changement global (Environnement) -- Histoire. |
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Histoire universelle. |
| Added Author |
Hornborg, Alf.
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McNeill, John Robert.
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Martínez Alier, Juan.
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| ISBN |
9780759110281 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780759110274 cloth alkaline paper |
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0759110271 cloth alkaline paper |
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075911028X paperback alkaline paper |
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