Since around 1500 C.E., humans have shaped the global environment
in ways that were previously unimaginable. Bringing together
leading environmental historians and world historians, this book
offers an overview of global environmental history throughout this
remarkable 500-year period. In eleven essays, the contributors
examine the connections between environmental change and other
major topics of early modern and modern world history: population
growth, commercialization, imperialism, industrialization, the
fossil fuel revolution, and more. Rather than attributing
environmental change largely to European science, technology, and
capitalism, the essays illuminate a series of culturally
distinctive, yet often parallel developments arising in many parts
of the world, leading to intensified exploitation of land and
water. The wide range of regional studies - including some in
Russia, China, the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, Latin
America, Southern Africa, and Western Europe - together with the
book's broader thematic essays makes "The Environment and World
History" ideal for courses that seek to incorporate the environment
and environmental change more fully into a truly integrative
understanding of world history. The contributors include Michael
Adas, William Beinart, Edmund Burke-III, Mark Cioc, Kenneth
Pomeranz, Mahesh Rangarajan, John F. Richards, Lise Sedrez, and
Douglas R. Weiner.
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