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  • 1
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520943481 , 1282772570 , 9780520943483 , 9781282772571
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (381 pages)
    Series Statement: California world history library
    DDC: 304.2
    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-2000 ; Environmental sciences / History ; Human ecology / History ; Nature / Effect of human beings on / History ; Social Science ; Environmental Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography ; HISTORY / World ; Environmental sciences ; Human ecology ; Nature / Effect of human beings on ; Geschichte ; Human ecology History ; Nature Effect of human beings on ; History ; Environmental sciences History ; Umweltveränderung ; Historische Umweltforschung ; Gesellschaft ; Humanökologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Umweltveränderung ; Gesellschaft ; Humanökologie ; Geschichte 1500-2000 ; Historische Umweltforschung
    Note: 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. , 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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  • 2
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    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520943483
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 361 p.
    Series Statement: California world history library 9
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-2000 ; Geschichte ; Human ecology History ; Nature Effect of human beings on ; History ; Environmental sciences History ; Humanökologie ; Gesellschaft ; Umweltveränderung ; Historische Umweltforschung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Umweltveränderung ; Gesellschaft ; Humanökologie ; Geschichte 1500-2000 ; Historische Umweltforschung
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-336) and index
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  • 3
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520943483 , 0520943481
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (381 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: California World History Library v.9
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Burke, Edmund , III The Environment and World History
    DDC: 304.2
    Keywords: Human ecology History ; Nature Effect of human beings on ; History ; Environmental sciences History ; Nature Effect of human beings on ; History ; Environmental sciences History ; Human ecology History ; Environmental sciences -- History ; Human ecology -- History ; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- History ; Social Science ; Environmental Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Human Geography ; HISTORY ; World ; Environmental sciences ; Human ecology ; Nature ; Effect of human beings on ; Gesellschaft ; Historische Umweltforschung ; Humanökologie ; Umweltveränderung ; History ; Electronic books History ; Electronic books ; Electronic resource ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: 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
    Note: Description based upon print version of record
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  • 4
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    Book
    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 978-0-520-24661-4
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 426 Seiten, 3 ungezählte Blätter Portraits , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: Second edition
    Keywords: Naher Osten Mittlerer Osten ; Ägypten ; Kuwait ; Bachtiaren ; Algerien ; Iran ; Palästina ; Syrien ; Gesellschaft ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Soziale Schichtung ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Sozialer Wandel ; Mittelklasse ; Geschichte ; Biographie ; Biographische Methode
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- 1. Middle Eastern societies and ordinary people's lives / Edmund Burke III and David N. Yaghoubian -- Part One. Precolonial lives -- 2. Assaf: a peasant of Mount Lebanon / Akram F. Khater and Antoine F. Khater -- 3. Shemsigul: a Circassian slave in mid-nineteenth-century Cairo / Ehud R. Toledano -- 4. Journeymen textile weavers in nineteenth-century Damascus: a collective biography / Sherry Vatter -- 5. Ahmad: a Kuwaiti pearl diver / Nels Johnson -- 6. Mohand N'Hamoucha: Middle Atlas Berber / Edmund Burke III -- 7. Bibi Maryam: a Bakhtiyari tribal woman / Julie Oehler -- Part Two. Colonial lives -- 8. The Shaykh and his daughter: coping in colonial Algeria / Julia Clancy-Smith -- 9. Izz al-Din al-Qassam: preacher and mujahid / Abdullah Schleifer -- 10. Abu Ali al-Kilawi: a Damascus qabaday / Philip S. Khoury -- 11. M'hamed Ali: Tunisian labor organizer / Eqbal Ahmad and Stuart Schaar -- 12. Hagob Hagobian: an Armenian truck driver in Iran / David N. Yaghoubian -- 13. Naji: an Iraqi country doctor / Sami Zubaida -- Part Three. Post-Colonial lives -- 14. Migdim: Egyptian bedouin matriarch / Lila Abu-Lughod -- 15. Rostam: Qashqai rebel / Lois Beck -- 16. An Iranian village boyhood / Mehdi Abedi and Michael M. J. Fischer -- 17. Gulab: an Afghan schoolteacher / Ashraf Ghani -- 18. Abu Jamal: a Palestinian urban villager / Joost Hiltermann -- 19. Haddou: a Moroccan migrant worker / David Mcmurray -- Part IV. Contemporary lives -- 20. Nasir: Sa'idi youth between Islamism and agriculture / Fanny colonna -- 21. Ghada: village rebel or political protestor? / Celia Rothenberg -- 22. Khanom Gohary: an Iranian community leader / Homa Hoodfar -- 23. Nadia: mother of the believers / Baya Gacemi -- 24. June Leavitt: West Bank settler / Tamara Neuman -- 25. Talal Rizk: a Syrian engineer in the Gulf / Michael Provence -- Glossary -- List of contributors
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