A Companion to Global Environmental History

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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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J. R. McNeill is Professor of History at GeorgetownUniversity, where he held the Cinco Hermanos Chair in Environmentaland International Affairs before becoming University Professor in2006. His book Something New under the Sun: An EnvironmentalHistory of the Twentieth-Century World was listed by TheTimes as one of the best science books ever written. The bookwas cowinner of the World History Association and Forest HistorySociety book prizes and runner-up for the BP Natural World bookprize. McNeill has authored a number of other award-winning bookson environmental history, and in 2010 he was awarded the ToynbeePrize for academic and public contributions tohumanity. Erin Stewart Mauldin is a PhD candidate in USenvironmental history at Georgetown University. She is currentlywriting her dissertation on the environmental history of theReconstruction period in the southern United States.

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October 5th, 2012

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Professional & Vocational

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Edited by Erin Stewart Mauldin
Edited by J.R. McNeill

Pages

568

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Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History

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183x254x33

ISBN-13

9781444335347

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19853140

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