Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series)
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 YorkerThe history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his startling book, J. R. McNeill gives us our first general account of what may prove to be the most significant dimension of the twentieth century: its environmental history. To a degree unprecedented in human history, we have refashioned the earth's air, water, and soil, and the biosphere of which we are a part. Based o…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-07589-2
- EAN: 9780393075892
- Produktnummer: 34245785
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 448 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'785 KB
- Abbildungen: 40 b/w photographs, 15 maps
Über den Autor
J. R. McNeill is University Professor of History at Georgetown University. He is the author of award-winning works in world and environmental history. These include The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History (co-authored with his father and world-history founder, William H. McNeill), and Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World, both published by Norton. McNeill is a recent past president of the American Historical Association.
37 weitere Werke von J. R. Mcneill:
Cambridge World History: Volume 7, Production, Destruction and Connection 1750-Present, Part 2, Shared Transformations?
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