ISBN:
1444335340
,
1118279514
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9781118279519
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (PDF, 11112 KB, 568 S.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Blackwell Companions to World History
Parallel Title:
Print version A Companion to Global Environmental History
DDC:
304.209
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 dayExplores environmental thought and action around the world, to give readers a cultural, intellectual and political context for engagement with the environment in modern timesBrings toge
Abstract:
The Companion to Global Environmental Historyoffers 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 dayExplores environmental thought and action around the world, to give readers a cultural, intellectual and political context for engagement with the environment in modern timesBrings together environmental historians from around the world, including scholars from South Africa, Brazil, Germany, and China
Description / Table of Contents:
A COMPANION TO GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; Contents; List of Maps; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Global Environmental History: An Introduction; What Is Environmental History?; Global Environmental History; PART I TIMES; 1 Global Environmental History: The First 150,000 Years; The Environment Shapes Paleolithic Humans and Human Affairs; Paleolithic Humans Shape the Environment; Neolithic Farmers Shape Themselves and Their Environments; Conclusion; 2 The Ancient World, c.500 BCE to 500 CE; Periodization; Problems of Scholarship; Archeology ; Radiocarbon Dating; Paleoclimatology
Description / Table of Contents:
Pollen AnalysisDendrochronology; Environmental Factors in the Decline of Civilizations; Conclusion: Comparative Environmental History; 3 The Medieval World, 500 to 1500 CE; Sixth-Century Disasters; The Middle East; China; Europe; Fourteenth-Century Disasters; The Maya; Conclusion; 4 The (Modern) World since 1500; The Biological Old Regime, c.1500; The Columbian Exchange, c.1500-1600; European States and Colonial Empires, 1500-1800; The Ecological Limits of the Biological Old Regime; The Fossil-Fuel Escape from the Biological Old Regime, 1800-1900
Description / Table of Contents:
The Gap and the Making of the Third World, 1800-1900The Great Departure in the Twentieth Century; PART II PLACES; 5 Southeast Asia in Global Environmental History; The Southeast Asian Region; The Natural Environment; Natural Change Prior to the Human Presence; The Arrival of Hominids and Humans; Foraging and Agriculture; Crops and Livestock; Changing Agricultural Practice; Wet-Rice Cultivation; Livestock; Forests and Forestry; A Two-Track Pattern; 6 Environmental History in Africa; Continental Historiographical Challenges; Contours of African Environmental History
Description / Table of Contents:
Themes in African Environmental HistoryA Future Agenda?; Conclusion; 7 Latin America in Global Environmental History; The Region, Precontact; Conquest and Colonization; Export Orientations; Conservation; Current Trends and New Directions; 8 The United States in Global Environmental History; The Pre-Columbian Period; The Ecological Atlantic; The Early Republic and Antebellum Periods; Slavery and African-American Environmental History; The Civil War Era; Industrialization and Ecological Conflict; The American Century; Environmentalism and Environmental Justice; Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
9 The Arctic and Subarctic in Global Environmental HistoryMigration to the Arctic; The Fur Trade and Whaling; Colonization and the Destruction of Indigenous Economies; Nationalism and Conservation ; 10 The Middle East in Global Environmental History; Sources for Middle East Environmental History: Seasons of Want or Plenty?; Climate; Energy; Disease; Culture; Conclusion; 11 Australia in Global Environmental History; Origins of Environmental History in Australia; A Confluence of Disciplines on a Regional Environmental Scale; Australian Environmental Identity - a National Question?
Description / Table of Contents:
Global Environmental Stories from Australia
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1002/9781118279519
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