A Companion to Global Environmental History (McNeill/A Companion to Global Environmental History) || Global Environmental History: The First 150,000 Years

✍ Scribed by McNeill, J. R.; Mauldin, Erin Stewart

• Book ID: 119952796
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 89 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 1444335340
• DOI: 10.1002/9781118279519.ch1

✦ Synopsis

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, 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