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The environment and world history

Edmund Burke and Kenneth Pomeranz
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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.
  • Frontmatter
  • List of Figures, Maps, and Tables (page ix)
  • Preface (page xi)
  • Acknowledgments (page xv)
  • PART ONE OVERVIEW
    • 1. Introduction: World History and Environmental History (Kenneth Pomeranz, page 3)
    • 2. The Big Story: Human History, Energy Regimes, and the Environment (Edmund Burke III, page 33)
    • 3. Toward a Global System of Property Rights in Land (John F. Richards, page 54)
  • PART TWO RIVERS, REGIONS, AND DEVELOPMENTALISM
    • 4. The Transformation of the Middle Eastern Environment, 1500 B.C.E.-2000 C.E. (Edmund Burke III, page 81)
    • 5. The Transformation of China's Environment, 1500-2000 (Kenneth Pomeranz, page 118)
    • 6. The Rhine as a World River (Mark Cioc, page 165)
    • 7. Continuity and Transformation: Colonial Rice Frontiers and Their Environmental Impact on the Great River Deltas of Mainland Southeast Asia (Michael Adas, page 191)
  • PART THREE LANDSCAPES, CONQUESTS, COMMUNITIES, AND THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE
    • 8. Beyond the Colonial Paradigm: African History and Environmental History in Large-Scale Perspective (William Beinart, page 211)
    • 9. Environmental Histories of India: Of States, Landscapes, and Ecologies (Mahesh Rangarajan, page 229)
    • 10. Latin American Environmental History: A Shifting Old/New Field (Lise Sedrez, page 255)
    • 11. The Predatory Tribute-Taking State: A Framework for Understanding Russian Environmental History (Douglas R. Weiner, page 276)
  • Select Bibliography (page 317)
  • List of Contributors (page 337)
  • Index (page 339)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JWH 23.2 (Jun. 2012): 413-416 http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/journal_of_world_history/v023/23.2.robinson.html
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Published: c2009
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520256880 (paper)
  • 9780520256873 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Comparative/World
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