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A Companion to Global Environmental History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781118977538)
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xThe 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.
Author: J. R. McNeill
ISBN-10: 111897753X
ISBN-13: 9781118977538
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 05/04/2015
Pages: 576
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.80w x 1.10d
- Combines temporal, geographic, thematic and contextual approaches from prehistory to the present day
- Explores environmental thought and action around the world, to give readers a cultural, intellectual and political context for engagement with the environment in modern times
- Brings together environmental historians from around the world, including scholars from South Africa, Brazil, Germany, and China
Author: J. R. McNeill
ISBN-10: 111897753X
ISBN-13: 9781118977538
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 05/04/2015
Pages: 576
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.80w x 1.10d
By J. R. McNeill
xJ.R. McNeill is Professor of History at Georgetown University, where he held the Cinco Hermanos Chair in Environmental and International Affairs before becoming University Professor in 2006. His book Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World was listed by The Times as one of the best science books ever written. The book was co-winner of the World History Association and Forest History Society book prizes and runner-up for the BP Natural World book prize. McNeill has authored a number of other award-winning books on environmental history, and in 2010 he was awarded the Toynbee Prize for 'academic and public contributions to humanity.'
Erin Stewart Mauldin is an Assistant Professor of History at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. Her current project examines the ecological implications of the Civil War for agriculture in the U.S. South.
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