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The Environment and World History
Author | : Edmund Burke,Kenneth Pomeranz |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520256875 |
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In 11 essays, the contributors examine the connections between environmental change and other major topics of early modern world history: population growth, commercialization, imperialism, industrialization, the fossil fuel revolution, and more.
The Environment in World History
Author | : Stephen Mosley |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2023-11-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781000991444 |
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Now in its second edition and refreshed by a decade of new research, The Environment in World History uncovers the deep-rooted causes of interconnected climate, biodiversity, and ecological crises that have brought the environment to the top of the global political agenda in the twenty-first century. Its expanded chapters and case studies explore a wide range of issues including the following: the hunting of wildlife and the loss of biodiversity across the globe; deforestation and the development of strategies to protect the world’s forests; soil degradation caused by worldwide agricultural expansion, one of the most profound ways that humans have altered the planet; the widening impact of urban-industrial growth and the deepening ecological footprints of the world’s cities; and the rising levels of air, land and water pollution as the trade-off for continued economic growth worldwide. Covering the last five hundred years, it offers an essential environmental perspective on well-known world history narratives of imperialism and colonialism, trade and commerce, technological progress and the advance of civilisation. Clearly written and fully up-to-date, it is an invaluable resource for all students of world history and environmental studies.
The Environment
Author | : Paul Warde,Libby Robin,Sverker Sörlin |
Publsiher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2021-01-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781421440026 |
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The untold history of how people came to conceive, to manage, and to dispute environmental crisis, The Environment is essential reading for anyone who wants to help protect the environment from the numerous threats it faces today.
Humans Versus Nature
Author | : Daniel R. Headrick |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 625 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780190864712 |
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"This book is about the ongoing conflict between humanity and the natural environment. Over the past 200,000 years, humans have multiplied and populated the Earth. When they domesticated plants and animals and replaced foraging with agriculture and herding, they depleted natural resources, deforested the land, and caused mass extinctions. But nature has agency too, causing pandemics of plague, smallpox, measles, influenza, and other diseases and a climate change called the Little Ice Age. In recent centuries, industrialization has accelerated extinctions, deforestation, and resource depletion, even in the oceans. Twentieth-century developmentalism and mass consumerism have caused global warming and other climate changes. Environmental movements have argued for the need to mitigate the negative consequences of technological and economic change. The future of humanity and the Earth depends on choices between achieving a sustainable balance between humans and nature, carrying on as before, or learning to manage the biosphere. environment, mass extinction, domestication, agriculture, pandemic, industrialization, developmentalism, consumerism, global warming"--
Something New Under the Sun An Environmental History of the Twentieth Century World The Global Century Series
Author | : J. R. McNeill |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2001-04-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780393075892 |
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"One of those rare books that’s both sweeping and specific, scholarly and readable…What makes the book stand out is its wealth of historical detail." —Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his startling book, J. R. McNeill gives us our first general account of what may prove to be the most significant dimension of the twentieth century: its environmental history. To a degree unprecedented in human history, we have refashioned the earth's air, water, and soil, and the biosphere of which we are a part. Based on exhaustive research, McNeill's story—a compelling blend of anecdotes, data, and shrewd analysis—never preaches: it is our definitive account. This is a volume in The Global Century Series (general editor, Paul Kennedy).
A Companion to Global Environmental History
Author | : J. R. McNeill,Erin Stewart Mauldin |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2015-05-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781118977538 |
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The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past developments, current controversies, and future developments for specialists and newcomers alike. Combines temporal, geographic, thematic and contextual approaches from prehistory to the present day Explores environmental thought and action around the world, to give readers a cultural, intellectual and political context for engagement with the environment in modern times Brings together environmental historians from around the world, including scholars from South Africa, Brazil, Germany, and China
Nature and Power
Author | : Joachim Radkau |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-02-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521851299 |
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Environmental history, the author argues, is ultimately the history of human hopes and fears.
The Face of the Earth
Author | : Johnson Donald Hughes |
Publsiher | : M.E. Sharpe |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 076560423X |
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By adopting the ecological process as their major theme, the contributors of this volume show how the process of human interaction with the natural environment unfolded in the past, and offer perspective on the ecological crises in our world at the beginning of the 21st century.