جزییات کتاب
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 Content: Chapter One Global Environmental History: The First 150,000 Years (pages 1–17): J. R. McNeillChapter Two The Ancient World, c. 500 BCE to 500 CE (pages 18–38): J. Donald HughesChapter Three The Medieval World, 500 to 1500 CE (pages 39–56): Daniel HeadrickChapter Four The (Modern) World since 1500 (pages 57–78): Robert B. MarksChapter Five Southeast Asia in Global Environmental History (pages 79–95): Peter BoomgaardChapter Six Environmental History in Africa (pages 96–115): Jane CarruthersChapter Seven Latin America in Global Environmental History (pages 116–131): Shawn W. MillerChapter Eight The United States in Global Environmental History (pages 132–152): Erin Stewart MauldinChapter Nine The Arctic and Subarctic in Global Environmental History (pages 153–166): Liza PiperChapter Ten The Middle East in Global Environmental History (pages 167–181): Alan MikhailChapter Eleven Australia in Global Environmental History (pages 182–195): Libby RobinChapter Twelve Oceania: The Environmental History of One?Third of the Globe (pages 196–221): Paul D'ArcyChapter Thirteen The Environmental History of the Soviet Union (pages 222–243): Stephen BrainChapter Fourteen The Grasslands of North America and Russia (pages 245–262): David MoonChapter Fifteen Global Forests (pages 263–278): Nancy LangstonChapter Sixteen Fishing and Whaling (pages 279–296): Micah S. MuscolinoChapter Seventeen Riverine Environments (pages 297–318): Alan RoeChapter Eighteen War and the Environment (pages 319–339): Richard P. TuckerChapter Nineteen Technology and the Environment (pages 340–359): Paul JosephsonChapter Twenty Cities and the Environment (pages 360–376): Jordan Bauer and Martin V. MelosiChapter Twenty?One Evolution and the Environment (pages 377–393): Edmund RussellChapter Twenty?Two Climate Change in Global Environmental History (pages 394–410): Sam WhiteChapter Twenty?Three Industrial Agriculture (pages 411–432): Meredith McKittrickChapter Twenty?Four Biological Exchange in Global Environmental History (pages 433–451): J. R. McNeillChapter Twenty?Five Environmentalism in Brazil: A Historical Perspective (pages 453–473): Jose Augusto PaduaChapter Twenty?Six Environmentalism and Environmental Movements in China since 1949 (pages 474–492): Bao MaohongChapter Twenty?Seven Religion and Environmentalism (pages 493–512): Joachim RadkauChapter Twenty?Eight The Environmentalism of the Poor: Its Origins and Spread (pages 513–529): Joan Martinez?Alier