| Description |
1 online resource (381 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
California World History Library ; v. 9
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California world history library.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures, Maps, and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE: OVERVIEW; 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; PART TWO: RIVERS, REGIONS, AND DEVELOPMENTALISM; 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. |
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7. Continuity and Transformation: Colonial Rice Frontiers and Their Environmental Impact on the Great River Deltas of Mainland Southeast AsiaPART THREE: LANDSCAPES, CONQUESTS, COMMUNITIES, AND THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE; 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. |
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List of ContributorsIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-336) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- History.
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Human ecology. |
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History. |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- History.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
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Environmental sciences -- History.
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Environmental sciences. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic resource.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books -- History.
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| Added Author |
Burke, Edmund, III, 1940- editor.
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Pomeranz, Kenneth, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Environment and world history. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009 9780520256873 (DLC) 2008040826 (OCoLC)256534454 |
| ISBN |
9780520943483 (electronic book) |
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0520943481 (electronic book) |
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0520256883 |
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0520256875 |
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9780520256873 |
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9780520256880 |
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1282772570 |
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9781282772571 |
| Standard No. |
9786612772573 |
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