Table of Contents
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 247David 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