A Companion to Global Environmental History
The Companion to Global Environmental History orients readers to this dynamic and fast-growing field and provides an essential reference to current issues and controversies within the research arena. Bringing together environmental historians from around the world, it surveys past developments in scholarship, current contours of the field, and possible approaches for the future.Four themed sections encompass temporal, geographic and thematic approaches from prehistory to the present day, to offer multiple points of entry into the substance and historiography of environmental history. Chapters explore themes across times, places and processes,…
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Weitere Autoren: Stewart Mauldin, Erin
- ISBN: 978-1-118-97753-8
- EAN: 9781118977538
- Produktnummer: 16776572
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 568 S.
- Masse: H24.6 cm x B17.1 cm x D2.6 cm 856 g
- Gewicht: 856
Über den Autor
J.R. McNeill is Professor of History at Georgetown University, where he held the Cinco Hermanos Chair in Environmental and International Affairs before becoming University Professor in 2006. His book Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World was listed by The Times as one of the best science books ever written. The book was co-winner of the World History Association and Forest History Society book prizes and runner-up for the BP Natural World book prize. McNeill has authored a number of other award-winning books on environmental history, and in 2010 he was awarded the Toynbee Prize for 'academic and public contributions to humanity.'Erin Stewart Mauldin is an Assistant Professor of History at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. Her current project examines the ecological implications of the Civil War for agriculture in the U.S. South.
37 weitere Werke von J. R. McNeill:
Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series)
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Cambridge World History: Volume 7, Production, Destruction and Connection 1750-Present, Part 2, Shared Transformations?
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