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A Companion to Global Environmental History

J R McNeill editor Erin Stewart Mauldin editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:24th Apr '15

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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

 “Those whose interest is world environmental history will find this book a pleasure to read from cover to cover, and the bibliographies current and extensive” Choice

 “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

ISBN: 9781118977538

Dimensions: 246mm x 173mm x 26mm

Weight: 857g

576 pages