The environment and world history /:

Since around 1500 C.E., humans have shaped the global environment in ways that were previously unimaginable. Bringing together leading environmental historians and world historians, this book offers an overview of global environmental history throughout this remarkable 500-year period. In eleven ess...

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Weitere Verfasser: Burke, Edmund, III, 1940- (HerausgeberIn), Pomeranz, Kenneth (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.
Schriftenreihe:California world history library.
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Zusammenfassung:Since around 1500 C.E., humans have shaped the global environment in ways that were previously unimaginable. Bringing together leading environmental historians and world historians, this book offers an overview of global environmental history throughout this remarkable 500-year period. In eleven essays, the contributors examine the connections between environmental change and other major topics of early modern and modern world history: population growth, commercialization, imperialism, industrialization, the fossil fuel revolution, and more. Rather than attributing environmental change largely to European science, technology, and capitalism, the essays illuminate a series of culturally distinctive, yet often parallel developments arising in many parts of the world, leading to intensified exploitation of land and water.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (381 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-336) and index.
ISBN:9780520943483
0520943481
0520256883
0520256875
9780520256873
9780520256880
9786612772573
6612772573