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Title:

The environment and world history / edited by Edmund Burke III and Kenneth Pomeranz.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xvi, 361 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Human ecology--History.
Nature--History.--History.
Environmental sciences--History.

Other Authors:

Burke, Edmund, 1940-
Pomeranz, Kenneth.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-336) and index.

Contents:

The predatory tribute-taking state : a framework for understanding Russian environmental history / Douglas R. Weiner. The big story : human history, energy regimes, and the environment / Edmund Burke III -- Toward a global system of property rights in land / John F. Richards -- The transformation of the Middle Eastern environment, 1500 B.C.E.-2000 C.E. / Edmund Burke III -- The transformation of China's environment, 1500-2000 / Kenneth Pomeranz -- The Rhine as a world river / Mark Cioc -- Continuity and transformation : colonial rice frontiers and their environmental impact on the great river deltas of mainland Southeast Asia / Michael Adas -- Beyond the colonial paradigm : African history and environmental history in large-scale perspective / William Beinart -- Environmental histories of India : of states, landscapes, and ecologies / Mahesh Rangarajan -- Latin American environmental history : a shifting old/new field / Lise Sedrez -- The predatory tribute-taking state : a framework for understanding Russian environmental history / Douglas R. Weiner.

Series:

The California world history library ; 9

ISBN:

0520256883 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520256880 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520256875 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520256873 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)256534454

LCCN:

2008040826

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)