Companion to Global Environmental History

A COMPANION TO GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY Equips both specialists and newcomers with the historical, intellectual, and political context for engagement with the environment Providing multiple points of entry into a dynamic, fast-growing field, A Companion to Global Environmental History explores the many contours of the relationship between human societies and the natural world on which they depend. Bringing together essays by an international roster of both established experts and emerging scholars, this volume covers a uniquely broad range of temporal, geographic, thematic, and contextual approaches to the practice of global environmental history. Thirty-three detailed chapters describe how the relationship between society and nature has changed over time, examine the various drivers of change and environmental transformations, survey different types of environmental thought and action around the world, and more. Now in its second edition, the Companion is fully revised to reflect major research developments and new trajectories within the field. Updated chapters that present new evidence for longstanding debates and innovative applications of environmental history are accompanied by six entirely new chapters on India, China, Africa, early modern cities, global environmental governance, and European environmentalism. Offering fresh insights into environmental thought, culture, policy, and politics, A Companion to Global Environmental History, Second Edition, is an ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate students and an invaluable reference for scholars, researchers, and environmental historians.

List of contents

List of Maps and Figures viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xiv
Global Environmental History: An Updated Introduction xv
J. R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin
Part I Times 1
1 Global Environmental History: The First 300,000 Years 3
J. R. McNeill
2 The Ancient World, c. 500 bce- 500 ce 16
J. Donald Hughes and J. R. McNeill
3 The Medieval World, 500- 1500 ce 34
Daniel Headrick
4 The (Modern) World Since 1500 49
Robert B. Marks and J. R. McNeill
Part II Places 63
5 The Environmental History of Southeast Asia 65
Peter Boomgaard and Michitake Aso
6 The Environmental History of Africa 80
Jeremiah Kitunda
7 The Environmental History of Latin America 93
Shawn W. Miller
8 The Environmental History of the United States 109
Erin Stewart Mauldin
9 The Environmental History of the Arctic and Subarctic 124
Liza Piper
10 The Environmental History of the Middle East 137
Alan Mikhail and Faisal H. Husain
11 The Environmental History of Australia 151
Emily O'Gorman and Libby Robin
12 Oceania: The Environmental History of One-Third of the Globe 165
Paul D'Arcy
13 The Environmental History of the Soviet Union 187
Stephen Brain
14 The Environmental History of China 205
Yuan Julian Chen
15 The Environmental History of South Asia 221
Michael H. Fisher
16 The Environmental History of Central Eurasia 244
Yuan Gao
Part III Drivers of Change and Environmental Transformations 259
17 The Grasslands of North America and Northern Eurasia 261
David Moon
18 Global Forests 275
Nancy Langston and Michael J. Dockry
19 Fishing and Whaling 288
Micah S. Muscolino
20 Riverine Environments 304
Alan Roe and Iftekhar Iqbal
21 War and the Environment 314
Richard P. Tucker and J.R. McNeill
22 Technology and the Environment 331
Paul Josephson
23 Evolution and the Environment 349
Edmund Russell
24 Climate Change in Global Environmental History 361
Sam White
25 Industrial Agriculture 375
Meredith McKittrick
26 Biological Exchange in Global Environmental History 395
J. R. McNeill
27 Urban Environmental History 412
Janna Coomans
Part IV Environmental Thought and Action 427
28 Environmentalism in Brazil: A Historical Perspective 429
José Augusto Pádua
29 Environmentalism and Environmental Movements in China Since 1949 448
Bao Maohong
30 Religion and Environmentalism 463
Joachim Radkau
31 The Environmentalism of the Poor: Its Origins and Spread 479
Joan Martinez-Alier
32 Global Environmental Governance 493
Iris Borowy
33 Modern Environmentalism in Europe 510
Jan-Henrik Meyer
Index 527

About the author

J. R. McNeill is the former President of the American Society for Environmental History and the American Historical Association. The author or editor of 23 books, McNeill is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academia Europaea, and the Royal Academy of Morocco. He received the Heineken Award for History from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.
Erin Stewart Mauldin is the John Hope Franklin Chair of Southern History at the University of South Florida. She is the author of the award-winning Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South and the co-editor of the Environmental History and the American South series.

Product details

• Authors: J. R. (Georgetown University Mcneill
• Assisted by: J. R. McNeill (Editor), Erin Stewart Mauldin (Editor), Stewart Mauldin Erin (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.10.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9781119988199
• ISBN: 978-1-119-98819-9
• No. of pages: 520
• Series: Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, HISTORY / Historical Geography, Historical Geography