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• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• File Size : 42,7 Mb
• Release Date : 24 June 2024

In 11 essays, the contributors examine the connections between environmental change and other major topics of early modern world history: population growth, commercialization, imperialism, industrialization, the fossil fuel revolution, and more.

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• File Size : 45,7 Mb
• Release Date : 03 November 2023

Now in its second edition and refreshed by a decade of new research, The Environment in World History uncovers the deep-rooted causes of interconnected climate, biodiversity, and ecological crises that

• Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
• File Size : 27,5 Mb
• Release Date : 05 January 2021

The untold history of how people came to conceive, to manage, and to dispute environmental crisis, The Environment is essential reading for anyone who wants to help protect the environment

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• File Size : 55,5 Mb
• Release Date : 24 June 2024

"This book is about the ongoing conflict between humanity and the natural environment. Over the past 200,000 years, humans have multiplied and populated the Earth. When they domesticated plants and animals

• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• File Size : 36,5 Mb
• Release Date : 04 May 2015

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

• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• File Size : 35,6 Mb
• Release Date : 17 April 2001

"One of those rare books that’s both sweeping and specific, scholarly and readable…What makes the book stand out is its wealth of historical detail." —Elizabeth Kolbert, The New

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 55,8 Mb
• Release Date : 25 February 2010

Covering the last five hundred years of global history, The Environment in World History examines the processes that have transformed the Earth and put growing pressure on natural resources. Chapters

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 46,9 Mb
• Release Date : 23 July 2009

Environmental History as a distinct discipline is now over a generation old, with a large and diverse group of practitioners around the globe. This book provides a reflection on the

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 32,5 Mb
• Release Date : 11 February 2008

Environmental history, the author argues, is ultimately the history of human hopes and fears.

• Publisher : UCL Press
• File Size : 25,6 Mb
• Release Date : 09 April 2018

Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have