Global environmental history : an introductory reader / John R. McNeill and Alan Roe.
| Author/creator | McNeill, John Robert |
| Other author | Roe, Alan, 1942- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, ©2013. |
| Description | xxvi, 449 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Rewriting histories Rewriting histories. ^A601192 |
| Contents | Changing times : the Holocene legacy / William R. Dickinson -- Dark is the world to thee : a historical perspective on environmental forewarnings / Teresa Kwiatkowska and Alan Holland -- Opportunities in marine environmental history / W. Jeffrey Bolster -- Gender and environmental history / Carolyn Merchant -- Consumed by either fire or fire : a review of the environmental consequences of anthropogenic fire / Stephen J. Pyne -- Rubber, blight, and mosquitos : biogeography meets the global economy / Donald Kennedy and Marjorie Lucks -- Animal planet / Harriet Ritvo -- Evolutionary history : prospectus for a new field / Edmund Russell -- Ecological imperialism : the overseas migration of western Europeans as a biological phenomenon / Alfred W. Crosby -- Environment and society : long-term trends in Latin American mining / Elizabeth Dore -- Exceptionalism in European environmental history / Joachim Radkau -- Three thousand years of unsustainable growth : China's environment from archaic times to the present / Mark Elvin -- The predatory tribute-taking state : a framework for understanding Russian environmental history / Douglas R. Wiener -- Ecology and culture in West Africa / James L.A. Webb Jr. -- The trouble with wilderness : or, getting back to the wrong nature / William Cronon -- 'Annihilating natural productions' : nature's economy, colonial crisis and the origins of Brazilian political environmentalism (1786-1810) / José A. Pádua -- Conservation movement in post-war Japan / Catherine Knight -- The authoritarian biologist and the arrogance of anti-humanism : wildlife conservation in the third world / Ramachandra Guha. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Cross-cultural studies. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2012022062 |
| ISBN | 9780415520522 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0415520525 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780415520539 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0415520533 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | GF13 .M385 2013 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |