Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Titre(s) : A companion to global environmental history [Texte électronique] / edited by J.R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin
Publication : Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2012
Description matérielle : 1 online resource
Collection : Wiley-Blackwell companions to history
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record.
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
Autre(s) auteur(s) : McNeill, John Robert (1954-....). Fonction indéterminée
Mauldin, Erin Stewart. Fonction indéterminée
Sujet(s) : Politique de l'environnement
Environnement -- Protection
Changement global de l'environnement
Écologie humaine
Indice(s) Dewey :
304.209 (23e éd.) = Écologie humaine - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781118279519
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb446530882
Notice n° :
FRBNF44653088
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Global Environmental History: An Introduction / J.R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldi
; PART I. Times. 1 Global Environmental History: The First 150,000 Years / J.R. McNeill
; 2 The Ancient World, c. 500 BCE to 500 CE / J. Donald Hughes ; 3 The Medieval World,
500 to 1500 CE / Daniel Headrick ; 4 The (Modern) World since 1500 / Robert B. Marks.
PART II. Places. 5 Southeast Asia in Global Environmental History / Peter Boomgaard
; 6 Environmental History in Africa / Jane Carruthers ; 7 Latin America in Global
Environmental History / Shawn W. Miller ; 8 The United States in Global Environmental
History / Erin Stewart Mauldin ; 9 The Arctic and Subarctic in Global Environmental
History / Liza Piper ; 10 The Middle East in Global Environmental History / Alan Mikhail
; 11 Australia in Global Environmental History / Libby Robin ; 12 Oceania: The Environmental
History of One-Third of the Globe / Paul D'Arcy ; 13 The Environmental History of
the Soviet Union / Stephen Brain.
PART III. Drivers of change and environmental transformations. 14 The Grasslands of
North America and Russia / David Moon ; 15 Global Forests / Nancy Langston ; 16 Fishing
and Whaling / Micah S. Muscolino ; 17 Riverine Environments / Alan Roe ; 18 War and
the Environment / Richard P. Tucker ; 19 Technology and the Environment / Paul Josephson
; 20 Cities and the Environment / Jordan Bauer and Martin V. Melosi ; 21 Evolution
and the Environment / Edmund Russell ; 22 Climate Change in Global Environmental History
/ Sam White ; 23 Industrial Agriculture / Meredith McKittrick ; 24 Biological Exchange
in Global Environmental History / J.R. McNeill.
PART IV. Environmental thought and action. 25 Environmentalism in Brazil: A Historical
Perspective / José Augusto Pádua ; 26 Environmentalism and Environmental Movements
in China since 1949 / Bao Maohong ; 27 Religion and Environmentalism / Joachim Radkau
; 28 The Environmentalism of the Poor: Its Origins and Spread / Joan Martinez-Alier.
