A Companion to Global Environmental History Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History Series

• 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

List of Maps x

 Notes on Contributors xi

Acknowledgments xv

Global Environmental History: An Introduction xvi

J. R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin

Part I Times 1

 1 Global Environmental History: The First 150,000 Years 3
 J. R. McNeill

 2 The Ancient World, c. 500 BCE to 500 CE 18
 J. Donald Hughes

 3 The Medieval World, 500 to 1500 CE 39
 Daniel Headrick

 4 The (Modern) World since 1500 57
 Robert B. Marks

 Part II Places79

 5 Southeast Asia in Global Environmental History 81
 Peter Boomgaard

 6 Environmental History in Africa 96
 Jane Carruthers

 7 Latin America in Global Environmental History 116
 Shawn W. Miller

 8 The United States in Global Environmental History 132
 Erin Stewart Mauldin

 9 The Arctic and Subarctic in Global Environmental History 153
 Liza Piper

 10 The Middle East in Global Environmental History 167
 Alan Mikhail

 11 Australia in Global Environmental History 182
 Libby Robin

 12 Oceania: The Environmental History of One-Third of the Globe 196
 Paul D ’ Arcy

 13 The Environmental History of the Soviet Union 222
 Stephen Brain

 Part III Drivers Of Change And Environmental Transformations 245

14 The Grasslands of North America and Russia 247
David Moon

15 Global Forests 263
 Nancy Langston

 16 Fishing and Whaling 279
 Micah S. Muscolino

17 Riverine Environments 297
 Alan Roe

 18 War and the Environment 319
 Richard P. Tucker

 19 Technology and the Environment 340
 Paul Josephson

 20 Cities and the Environment 360
 Jordan Bauer and Martin V. Melosi

 21 Evolution and the Environment 377
 Edmund Russell

 22 Climate Change in Global Environmental History 394
 Sam White

 23 Industrial Agriculture 411
 Meredith McKittrick

 24 Biological Exchange in Global Environmental History 433
 J. R. McNeill

 Part IV Environmental Thought And Action 453

 25 Environmentalism in Brazil: A Historical Perspective 455
 José Augusto Pádua

26 Environmentalism and Environmental Movements in China since 1949 474
 Bao Maohong

 27 Religion and Environmentalism 493
 Joachim Radkau

 28 The Environmentalism of the Poor: Its Origins and Spread 513
 Joan Martinez-Alier

Index 530

Erin Stewart Mauldin is an Assistant Professor of History at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. Her current project examines the ecological implications of the Civil War for agriculture in the U.S. South.