A Companion to Global Environmental History (Blackwell Companions to World History) (Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History): 22 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1444335340 ISBN 13: 9781444335347

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

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

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Review:

"This broad-ranging and ambitious book, edited by J.R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin, sees the welcome convergence of two fertile historiographical trends of the past several decades: globalism and environmentalism. . . Nevertheless, the editors have produced a volume of a consistently high standard, with all the essays of good quality." (English Historical Review, 1 August 2014)

"In 28 chapters, the book provides a broad introduction that is aimed at historians with an interest in striking topics and issues as well as at environmental history researchers wishing to widen or deepen their knowledge." (H-Soz-u-Kult, June 2014)

"There is much in this book that will be of interest to environmentalists, geographers and politicians, and the general public. Environmental historians should find this a useful overview of their topic." (Reference Reviews, Vol. 28 no. 1, 2014)

"Those whose interest is world environmental history will find this book a pleasure to read from cover to cover, and the bibliographies are current and extensive." (Choice, September 2013)

From the Back Cover:

A Companion to Global Environmental History orients readers to this dynamic, fast-growing field and provides an essential reference to current issues and controversies within the research arena. Bringing together environmental historians from around the world, the Companion surveys past developments in scholarship, current contours of the field, and possible approaches for the future.

Four themed sections encompass temporal, geographic, and thematic approaches from prehistory to the present day, offering multiple points of entry into the substance and historiography of global environmental history. Chapters explore environmental processes, thought, and action across time and place to give readers a historical, cultural, and political context for engagement with the environment in modern times. The Companion is a road map, not only for scholars and students who are coming to environmental history for the first time, but also for professional historians and specialists looking for comparative perspectives.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1444335340
• ISBN 13: 9781444335347
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 568
• Editor: Stewart Mauldin Erin, McNeill J. R.