Companion to Global Environmental History

J. R. McNeill is Professor of History at Georgetown University, where he held the Cinco Hermanos Chair in Environmental and International Affairs before becoming University Professor in 2006. His book Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World was listed by The Times as one of the best science books ever written. The book was cowinner of the World History Association and Forest History Society book prizes and runner-up for the BP Natural World book prize. McNeill has authored a number of other award-winning books on environmental history, and in 2010 he was awarded the Toynbee Prize for “academic and public contributions to humanity.”Erin Stewart Mauldin is a PhD candidate in US environmental history at Georgetown University. She is currently writing her dissertation on the environmental history of the Reconstruction period in the southern United States.

“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)

• List of Maps xNotes on Contributors xiAcknowledgments xvGlobal Environmental History: An Introduction xviJ. R. McNeill and Erin Stewart MauldinPART I TIMES 1 1 Global Environmental History: The First 150,000 Years 3J. R. McNeill2 The Ancient World, c. 500 BCE to 500 CE 18J. Donald Hughes3 The Medieval World, 500 to 1500 CE 39Daniel Headrick4 The (Modern) World since 1500 57Robert B. MarksPART II PLACES 795 Southeast Asia in Global Environmental History 81Peter Boomgaard6 Environmental History in Africa 96Jane Carruthers7 Latin America in Global Environmental History 116Shawn W. Miller8 The United States in Global Environmental History 132Erin Stewart Mauldin9 The Arctic and Subarctic in Global Environmental History 153Liza Piper10 The Middle East in Global Environmental History 167Alan Mikhail11 Australia in Global Environmental History 182Libby Robin12 Oceania: The Environmental History of One-Third of the Globe 196Paul D'Arcy13 The Environmental History of the Soviet Union 222Stephen BrainPART III DRIVERS OF CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATIONS 245  14 The Grasslands of North America and Russia 247David Moon15 Global Forests 263Nancy Langston16 Fishing and Whaling 279Micah S. Muscolino17 Riverine Environments 297Alan Roe18 War and the Environment 319Richard P. Tucker19 Technology and the Environment 340Paul Josephson20 Cities and the Environment 360Jordan Bauer and Martin V. Melosi21 Evolution and the Environment 377Edmund Russell22 Climate Change in Global Environmental History 394Sam White23 Industrial Agriculture 411Meredith McKittrick24 Biological Exchange in Global Environmental History 433J. R. McNeillPART IV ENVIRONMENTAL THOUGHT AND ACTION 45325 Environmentalism in Brazil: A Historical Perspective 455José Augusto Pádua26 Environmentalism and Environmental Movements in China since 1949 474Bao Maohong27 Religion and Environmentalism 493Joachim Radkau28 The Environmentalism of the Poor: Its Origins and Spread 513Joan Martinez-AlierIndex 530