Rethinking environmental history: world-system history and global environmental change
by Hornborg, Alf Martínez Alier, Juan McNeill, John Robert
"This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J.R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the prominent social scientists, historians, and geographical scientists to provide a historical overview of the ecological dimension of global economic processes. Readers are challenged to integrate studies of the Earth-system with studies of the world-system, …
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- Full title :Rethinking environmental history : world-system history and global environmental change / edited by Alf Hornborg, J.R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier.
Summary
"This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J.R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the prominent social scientists, historians, and geographical scientists to provide a historical overview of the ecological dimension of global economic processes. Readers are challenged to integrate studies of the Earth-system with studies of the world-system, and to reconceptualize the relations between human beings and their environment, as well as the challenges of global sustainability."--Pub. desc
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- Publication Date:©2007.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Altamira Press
- Place of Publication:Lanham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2007.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xi, 408 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780759113978, 0759113971, 9781299762275, 1299762271
- oclc:ocn608291678
- LC Classification:GE149
- Dewey Decimal:333.7
Table of Contents
Introduction : Environmental history as political ecology / Alf Hornborg -- Environmental impacts of the Roman economy and social structure : Augustus to Diocletian / J. Donald Hughes -- "People said extinction was not possible" : two thousand years of environmental change in South China / Robert B. Marks -- Precolonial landesque capital : a global perspective / Mats Widgren -- Food, war, and crisis : the seventeenth century Swedish empire / Janken Myrdal -- The role of deforestation in earth and world-system integration / Michael Williams -- Silver, ecology, and the origins of the modern world, 1450-1640 / Jason W. Moore -- Trade, "trinkets," and environmental change at the edge of world-systems : political ecology and the East African ivory trade / N. Thomas Håkansson -- Steps to an environmental history of the western Llanos of Venezuela : a world-system perspective / Rafael A. Gassón -- The extractive economy : an early phase of the globalization of diet, and its environmental consequences / Richard Wilk -- Yellow jack and geopolitics : environment, epidemics, and the struggles for empire in the American tropics, 1640-1830 / J.R. McNeill -- Marxism, social metabolism, and inte…
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