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A Companion to Global Environmental History
J. R. McNeill (Edited by), Erin Stewart Mauldin (Edited by)
9781119988182, Wiley
Hardback, published 10 April 2025
560 pages
25.9 x 18.5 x 3.8 cm, 1.066 kg
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.
List of Maps and Figures viii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiv Global Environmental History: An Updated Introduction xv Part I Times 1 1 Global Environmental History: The First 300,000 Years 3 2 The Ancient World, c. 500 bce– 500 ce 16 3 The Medieval World, 500– 1500 ce 34 4 The (Modern) World Since 1500 49 Part II Places 63 5 The Environmental History of Southeast Asia 65 6 The Environmental History of Africa 80 7 The Environmental History of Latin America 93 8 The Environmental History of the United States 109 9 The Environmental History of the Arctic and Subarctic 124 10 The Environmental History of the Middle East 137 11 The Environmental History of Australia 151 12 Oceania: The Environmental History of One-Third of the Globe 165 13 The Environmental History of the Soviet Union 187 14 The Environmental History of China 205 15 The Environmental History of South Asia 221 16 The Environmental History of Central Eurasia 244 Part III Drivers of Change and Environmental Transformations 259 17 The Grasslands of North America and Northern Eurasia 261 18 Global Forests 275 19 Fishing and Whaling 288 20 Riverine Environments 304 21 War and the Environment 314 22 Technology and the Environment 331 23 Evolution and the Environment 349 24 Climate Change in Global Environmental History 361 25 Industrial Agriculture 375 26 Biological Exchange in Global Environmental History 395 27 Urban Environmental History 412 Part IV Environmental Thought and Action 427 28 Environmentalism in Brazil: A Historical Perspective 429 29 Environmentalism and Environmental Movements in China Since 1949 448 30 Religion and Environmentalism 463 31 The Environmentalism of the Poor: Its Origins and Spread 479 32 Global Environmental Governance 493 33 Modern Environmentalism in Europe 510 Index 527
J. R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin
J. R. McNeill
J. Donald Hughes and J. R. McNeill
Daniel Headrick
Robert B. Marks and J. R. McNeill
Peter Boomgaard and Michitake Aso
Jeremiah Kitunda
Shawn W. Miller
Erin Stewart Mauldin
Liza Piper
Alan Mikhail and Faisal H. Husain
Emily O’Gorman and Libby Robin
Paul D’Arcy
Stephen Brain
Yuan Julian Chen
Michael H. Fisher
Yuan Gao
David Moon
Nancy Langston and Michael J. Dockry
Micah S. Muscolino
Alan Roe and Iftekhar Iqbal
Richard P. Tucker and J.R. McNeill
Paul Josephson
Edmund Russell
Sam White
Meredith McKittrick
J. R. McNeill
Janna Coomans
José Augusto Pádua
Bao Maohong
Joachim Radkau
Joan Martinez-Alier
Iris Borowy
Jan-Henrik Meyer
Subject Areas: History [HB]
