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<i>The Companion to Global Environmental History</i> 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. <ul><li>Combines temporal, geographic, thematic and contextual approaches from prehistory to the present day <li>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 <li>Brings together environmental historians from around the world, including scholars from South Africa, Brazil, Germany, and China </ul>Content: <br>Chapter One Global Environmental History: The First 150,000 Years (pages 1–17): J. R. McNeill<br>Chapter Two The Ancient World, c. 500 BCE to 500 CE (pages 18–38): J. Donald Hughes<br>Chapter Three The Medieval World, 500 to 1500 CE (pages 39–56): Daniel Headrick<br>Chapter Four The (Modern) World since 1500 (pages 57–78): Robert B. Marks<br>Chapter Five Southeast Asia in Global Environmental History (pages 79–95): Peter Boomgaard<br>Chapter Six Environmental History in Africa (pages 96–115): Jane Carruthers<br>Chapter Seven Latin America in Global Environmental History (pages 116–131): Shawn W. Miller<br>Chapter Eight The United States in Global Environmental History (pages 132–152): Erin Stewart Mauldin<br>Chapter Nine The Arctic and Subarctic in Global Environmental History (pages 153–166): Liza Piper<br>Chapter Ten The Middle East in Global Environmental History (pages 167–181): Alan Mikhail<br>Chapter Eleven Australia in Global Environmental History (pages 182–195): Libby Robin<br>Chapter Twelve Oceania: The Environmental History of One?Third of the Globe (pages 196–221): Paul D'Arcy<br>Chapter Thirteen The Environmental History of the Soviet Union (pages 222–243): Stephen Brain<br>Chapter Fourteen The Grasslands of North America and Russia (pages 245–262): David Moon<br>Chapter Fifteen Global Forests (pages 263–278): Nancy Langston<br>Chapter Sixteen Fishing and Whaling (pages 279–296): Micah S. Muscolino<br>Chapter Seventeen Riverine Environments (pages 297–318): Alan Roe<br>Chapter Eighteen War and the Environment (pages 319–339): Richard P. Tucker<br>Chapter Nineteen Technology and the Environment (pages 340–359): Paul Josephson<br>Chapter Twenty Cities and the Environment (pages 360–376): Jordan Bauer and Martin V. Melosi<br>Chapter Twenty?One Evolution and the Environment (pages 377–393): Edmund Russell<br>Chapter Twenty?Two Climate Change in Global Environmental History (pages 394–410): Sam White<br>Chapter Twenty?Three Industrial Agriculture (pages 411–432): Meredith McKittrick<br>Chapter Twenty?Four Biological Exchange in Global Environmental History (pages 433–451): J. R. McNeill<br>Chapter Twenty?Five Environmentalism in Brazil: A Historical Perspective (pages 453–473): Jose Augusto Padua<br>Chapter Twenty?Six Environmentalism and Environmental Movements in China since 1949 (pages 474–492): Bao Maohong<br>Chapter Twenty?Seven Religion and Environmentalism (pages 493–512): Joachim Radkau<br>Chapter Twenty?Eight The Environmentalism of the Poor: Its Origins and Spread (pages 513–529): Joan Martinez?Alier

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