A Century of Environmental Transitions [Paperback]

Tucker examines the environmental impact of industrialization, starting with its western origins in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and its complete globalization in the twentieth century.Tucker examines the environmental impact of industrialization, starting with its western origins in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and its complete globalization in the twentieth century.ForewordIndustrialization, Consumption and the Natural World, to 1914World War I: A Turning PointThe Interwar Years: North American Affluence and Global Competition for ResourcesWorld War IIThe Postwar BoomTropical and Subtropical Regions of the Postcolonial WorldThe Cold War: Militarization and Surrogate WarsToward Sustainability?Selected BibliographyRichard P. Tucker is adjunct professor of environmental history in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. His recent work includes Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World (2000, 2007), and works on the history of the environmental impact of war and environment.