TY  - GEN
AU  - Burke,Edmund
AU  - Pomeranz,Kenneth
TI  - The environment and world history
T2  - The California world history library
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - History
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Nature
KW  - Environmental sciences
N1  - E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal; American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about; Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-336) and index; Introduction : world history and environmental history / Kenneth Pomeranz -- 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
N2  - In 11 essays, the contributors examine the connections between environmental change and other major topics of early modern world history: population growth, commercialization, imperialism, industrialization, the fossil fuel revolution, and more
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb30978
ER  -