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
List of Maps x
Notes on Contributors xi
Acknowledgments xv
Global Environmental History: An Introduction xvi
J. R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin
PART I TIMES 1
1 Global Environmental History: The First 150,000 Years 3
J. R. McNeill
2 The Ancient World, c. 500 BCE to 500 CE 18
J. Donald Hughes
3 The Medieval World, 500 to 1500 CE 39
Daniel Headrick
4 The (Modern) World since 1500 57
Robert B. Marks
PART II PLACES 79
5 Southeast Asia in Global Environmental History 81
Peter Boomgaard
6 Environmental History in Africa 96
Jane Carruthers
7 Latin America in Global Environmental History 116
Shawn W. Miller
8 The United States in Global Environmental History 132
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