TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burke,Edmund ,III
AU  - Pomeranz,Kenneth
TI  - The Environment and World History
T2  - California World History Library
SN  - 9780520943483
AV  - GF13 .E585 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Environmental sciences
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Nature
KW  - Social Science
KW  - Environmental Studies
KW  - History
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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; 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; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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
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