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The environment and world history [electronic resource] / edit ed by Edmund Burke III and Kenneth Pomeranz.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The California world history library ; 9 | California world history library ; 9. | ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.Description: xvi, 361 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmSubject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources:
Contents:
Introduction : world history and environmental history / Kenneth Pom eranz -- The big story : human history, energy regimes, and the environ ment / Edmund Burke III -- Toward a global system of property rights in land / John F. Richards -- The transformation of the Middle Eastern en vironment, 1500 B.C.E.-2000 C.E. / Edmund Burke III -- The transformati on of China's environment, 1500-2000 / Kenneth Pomeranz -- The Rhine as a world river / Mark Cioc -- Continuity and transformation : colonial rice frontiers and their environmental impact on the great river deltas of mainland Southeast Asia / Michael Adas -- Beyond the colonial parad igm : African history and environmental history in large-scale perspect ive / William Beinart -- Environmental histories of India : of states, landscapes, and ecologies / Mahesh Rangarajan -- Latin American environ mental history : a shifting old/new field / Lise Sedrez -- The predator y tribute-taking state : a framework for understanding Russian environm ental history / Douglas R. Weiner.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/Summary: In 11 essays, the contributors examine the connections between envir onmental change and other major topics of early modern world history: p opulation growth, commercialization, imperialism, industrialization, th e fossil fuel revolution, and more.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-336) and index.

Introduction : world history and environmental history / Kenneth Pom eranz -- The big story : human history, energy regimes, and the environ ment / Edmund Burke III -- Toward a global system of property rights in land / John F. Richards -- The transformation of the Middle Eastern en vironment, 1500 B.C.E.-2000 C.E. / Edmund Burke III -- The transformati on of China's environment, 1500-2000 / Kenneth Pomeranz -- The Rhine as a world river / Mark Cioc -- Continuity and transformation : colonial rice frontiers and their environmental impact on the great river deltas of mainland Southeast Asia / Michael Adas -- Beyond the colonial parad igm : African history and environmental history in large-scale perspect ive / William Beinart -- Environmental histories of India : of states, landscapes, and ecologies / Mahesh Rangarajan -- Latin American environ mental history : a shifting old/new field / Lise Sedrez -- The predator y tribute-taking state : a framework for understanding Russian environm ental history / Douglas R. Weiner.

In 11 essays, the contributors examine the connections between envir onmental change and other major topics of early modern world history: p opulation growth, commercialization, imperialism, industrialization, th e fossil fuel revolution, and more.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2013. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of a ccess: Intranet.

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