Environmentalism and Eurocentrism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7783363 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James M Blaut |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 391-408 |
| Publication date | 1999-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1931-0846.1999.tb00225.x |
| OpenAlex | W2150158907 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 21 |
Environmental determinism has served to validate a Eurocentric world history for several centuries, and it continues to do so today. This essay looks briefly at the historical marriage between environmental determinism and Eurocentric history, then develops a detailed critique of the environmental determinism put forward in two recent world‐history books: Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997) and David Landes's The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (1998
Ancient history · Determinism · Economic history · Environmental ethics · Environmental history · Environmentalism · Epistemology · Eurocentrism · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Social science · Sociology · World history · Anthropology · Education, Philosophy, and Society · Flannery O'Connor and Thomas Merton · History · Law · Legal and Social Philosophy · Philosophy
Natural disasters and indicators of social cohesion
The Indo-European Controversy
Rain, Riches, and Empire
Government-funded productions in ecological civilization
Social Evolution and Environmental Context
Geography is not destiny
The Geographical Review's Historical Dimensions and Recentism
Geography, nature, and the question of development
New Horizons for Regional Geography
An African-centred approach to land education
Reconceptualising sparsely populated remote edges through the concept of region and space
Orientalist Knowledge and Social Theories
Neo‐Environmental Determinism, Intellectual Damage Control, and Nature/Society Science
Geographic Isolation
Debating Destiny
Nihilism and modernity
Scale, causality, and the new organism–environment interaction
The Modern Slavery‐Climate Change Nexus
The Political Economy of Merchant Empires
ReOrient
The Myth of Continents
The Origins And Spread Of Agriculture And Pastoralism In Eurasia
The East in the West
Europe and the people without history
The Colonizer's Model of the World
Rethinking World History
African Population and Capitalism
Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt
The Cambridge History of China
The Making of a Hinterland
Trypanosomiasis Control in African History
Diffusionism
Guns, Germs, and Steel
A World of Difference
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,78 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |