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A Companion to Global Environmental History
The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past developments, current controversies, and future developments for specialists and newcomers alike. Combines temporal, geographic,...- $57.95
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Environmental Histories of the Cold War
Environmental Histories of the Cold War explores the links between the Cold War and the global environment, ranging from the environmental impacts of nuclear weapons to the political repercussions of environmentalism. Environmental change accelerated sharply during the Cold War years, and so did environmentalism...- $46.99
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Mosquito Empires
This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. Ecological changes made these landscapes especially suitable for the...- $32.99
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Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914
This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. Ecological changes made these landscapes especially suitable for the...- $108.00
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Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World
The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his startling book, J. R. McNeill gives us our first general account of what may prove to be the...- $21.99
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The Cambridge World History: Volume 7, Production, Destruction and Connection, 1750-Present, Part 1, Structures, Spaces, and Boundary Making
Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes of transport and communication. Volume 7 of the Cambridge World History series, divided into two books, offers a variety of angles...- $43.99
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The Cambridge World History: Volume 7, Production, Destruction and Connection, 1750-Present, Part 2, Shared Transformations?
Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes of transport and communication. Volume 7 of the Cambridge World History series, divided into two books, offers a variety of angles...- $43.99
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The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945
The pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a new age--the Anthropocene. Humans have altered the planet's biogeochemical systems without consciously managing them. The Great Acceleration explains the causes, consequences, and uncertainties of this massive uncontrolled...- $24.00
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The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History
World-historical questions such as these, the subjects of major works by Jared Diamond, David Landes, and others, are now of great moment as global frictions increase. In a spirited and original contribution to this quickening discussion, two renowned historians, father and son, explore the...- $30.25
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The Mountains of the Mediterranean World
This book describes and analyses the environmental history of the mountain areas of the Mediterranean world, focusing on Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Morocco. The author examines the land and its people and concludes that great changes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries created...- $39.99
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The Webs of Humankind: A World History
McNeill's The Webs of Humankind offers a refreshingly clear view of world history through the lens of connective "webs" of interaction--along which trade, religious beliefs, technologies, pathogens, and much else traveled. Instructors have hailed McNeill's approach as "integrative" and "accessible," and students call the...- $102.00
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