A Companion to Global Environmental History

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 developments, current controversies, and future developments for specialists and newcomers alike. Combines temporal, geographic, thematic and contextual approaches from prehistory to the present day Explores environmental thought and action around the world, to give readers a cultural, intellectual and political context for engagement with the environment in modern times Brings together environmental historians from around the world, including scholars from South Africa, Brazil, Germany, and China

List of Maps x  Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgments xv Global Environmental History: An Introduction xvi J. R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin Part I Times 1  1 Global Environmental History: The First 150,000 Years 3  J. R. McNeill  2 The Ancient World, c. 500 BCE to 500 CE 18  J. Donald Hughes  3 The Medieval World, 500 to 1500 CE 39  Daniel Headrick  4 The (Modern) World since 1500 57  Robert B. Marks  Part II Places79  5 Southeast Asia in Global Environmental History 81  Peter Boomgaard  6 Environmental History in Africa 96  Jane Carruthers  7 Latin America in Global Environmental History 116  Shawn W. Miller  8 The United States in Global Environmental History 132  Erin Stewart Mauldin  9 The Arctic and Subarctic in Global Environmental History 153  Liza Piper  10 The Middle East in Global Environmental History 167  Alan Mikhail  11 Australia in Global Environmental History 182  Libby Robin  12 Oceania: The Environmental History of One-Third of the Globe 196  Paul D ’ Arcy  13 The Environmental History of the Soviet Union 222  Stephen Brain  Part III Drivers Of Change And Environmental Transformations 245 14 The Grasslands of North America and Russia 247 David Moon 15 Global Forests 263  Nancy Langston  16 Fishing and Whaling 279  Micah S. Muscolino 17 Riverine Environments 297  Alan Roe  18 War and the Environment 319  Richard P. Tucker  19 Technology and the Environment 340  Paul Josephson  20 Cities and the Environment 360  Jordan Bauer and Martin V. Melosi  21 Evolution and the Environment 377  Edmund Russell  22 Climate Change in Global Environmental History 394  Sam White  23 Industrial Agriculture 411  Meredith McKittrick  24 Biological Exchange in Global Environmental History 433  J. R. McNeill  Part IV Environmental Thought And Action 453  25 Environmentalism in Brazil: A Historical Perspective 455  José Augusto Pádua 26 Environmentalism and Environmental Movements in China since 1949 474  Bao Maohong  27 Religion and Environmentalism 493  Joachim Radkau  28 The Environmentalism of the Poor: Its Origins and Spread 513  Joan Martinez-Alier Index 530