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| Genre/Form: | History Aufsatzsammlung |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Rethinking environmental history. Lanham : AltaMira Press, ©2007 (OCoLC)608291678 Online version: Rethinking environmental history. Lanham : AltaMira Press, ©2007 (OCoLC)609902894 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein; Alf Hornborg; John Robert McNeill; Juan Martínez Alier |
| ISBN: | 9780759110274 0759110271 9780759110281 075911028X |
| OCLC Number: | 70265531 |
| Description: | xi, 408 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : Environmental history as political ecology / Alf Hornborg -- Environmental impacts of the Roman economy and social structure : Augustus to Diocletian / J. Donald Hughes -- "People said extinction was not possible" : two thousand years of environmental change in South China / Robert B. Marks -- Precolonial landesque capital : a global perspective / Mats Widgren -- Food, war, and crisis : the seventeenth century Swedish empire / Janken Myrdal -- The role of deforestation in earth and world-system integration / Michael Williams -- Silver, ecology, and the origins of the modern world, 1450-1640 / Jason W. Moore -- Trade, "trinkets," and environmental change at the edge of world-systems : political ecology and the East African ivory trade / N. Thomas Håkansson -- Steps to an environmental history of the western Llanos of Venezuela : a world-system perspective / Rafael A. Gassón -- The extractive economy : an early phase of the globalization of diet, and its environmental consequences / Richard Wilk -- Yellow jack and geopolitics : environment, epidemics, and the struggles for empire in the American tropics, 1640-1830 / J.R. McNeill -- Marxism, social metabolism, and international trade / Joan Martínez-Alier -- Natural values and the physical inevitability of uneven development under capitalism / Stephen G. Bunker -- Footprints in the cotton fields : the industrial revolution as time-space appropriation and environmental load displacement / Alf Hornborg -- Uneven ecological exchange and consumption-based environmental impacts : a cross-national investigation / Andrew K. Jorgenson and James Rice -- Combining social metabolism and input-output analyses to account for ecologically unequal trade / Helga Weisz -- Physical trade flows of pollution-intensive products : historical trends in Europe and the world / Roldan Muradian and Stefan Giljum -- Environmental issues at the U.S.-Mexico border and the unequal territorialization of value / Josiah Heyman -- Surrogate money, technology, and the expansion of savanna soybeans in Brazil / William H. Fisher -- Scale and dependency in world-systems : local societies in convergent evolution / Joseph A. Tainter -- The ecology and the economy : what is rational? / Immanuel Wallerstein. |
| Series Title: | Globalization and the environment. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Alf Hornborg, J.R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier. |
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The contributors to Rethinking Environmental History argue for a truly global, historical, and transdisciplinary approach to environmental history, even when analyzing the most localized instances of degradation. They show how and why environmental degradations have been uneven throughout history-and in the process employ, critique, and extend world-systems analysis. -- Thomas D. Hall, Lester M. Jones Professor of Sociology, DePauw University, and editor of A World-Systems Reader This book offers new perspectives on global environmental problems at a time when many of these issues are discussed and taught in a historical and political-economic vacuum. It is coherent in theme, interdisciplinary in scope, historically innovative, and geographically far-reaching. A 'world-system' perspective provides a thread for a multifaceted view of distributive aspects of our interlinked economic and environmental histories. Rethinking Environmental History offers carefully crafted studies and provocative essays by some of the most respected scholars (and best writers!) on the topic. This volume brings much-needed depth to the scholarship of globalization and environment, and inauguates a new phase of inquiry in political ecology, environmental history, and environmental sciences in general. -- Eduardo S. Brondizio, Indiana University, Bloomington Environmental history is new, exciting, and protean-a veritable stem cell of scholarly inquiry. To sample it while its insights are fresh and provoke new views of even your own origins, read Rethinking Environmental History. -- Alfred W. Crosby, University of Texas at Austin This is the best overview we have of political ecology, which tries to link environmental change to political economy and social injustice. Through a set of richly layered and well-argued chapters, the authors demonstrate how empires and powerful nation-states have long enriched themselves and protected their own environments by extracting wealth from faraway places. These authors restore both ecology and economy to the center of environmental history. All historians and environmental policy makers should read their contributotions carefully and incorporate their ecological perspective into our understanding of the past. -- Donald E. Worster, University of Kansas We like to think that we are free agents and that everything is possible. Yet technological development today is highly uneven, just as it was throughout the past. All development is subject to various ecological constraints. How actors deal with these constraints and who ends up bearing their burden are often more complex processes than they may seem from local perspectives. The chapters in Hornborg, McNeill, and Martinez-Alier help illustrate these multifaceted problems in a number of fascinating and globally conscious ways. -- William Thompson, Indiana University, Bloomington, and past president of the International Studies Association Read more...
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