Companion to Global Environmental History

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
Jose Augusto Padua

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

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