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The environment and world history / edited by Edmund Burke III and Kenneth Pomeranz.

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University of California Press, c2009.

Human ecology -- History.

Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- History.

Environmental sciences -- History.

California world history library ; 9.

Table of contents only

9780520256873 (cloth : alk. paper)

0520256875 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780520256880 (pbk. : alk. paper)

0520256883 (pbk. : alk. paper)

xvi, 361 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

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.

Burke, Edmund, 1940-

Pomeranz, Kenneth.

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