Ideas matter: A political history of the twentieth-century environment
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 99, Heft 640, S. 371-382
ISSN: 0011-3530
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In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 99, Heft 640, S. 371-382
ISSN: 0011-3530
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In: Journal of social history, Band 33, Heft 1, S. 248-249
ISSN: 1527-1897
In: Journal of world history: official journal of the World History Association, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 331-333
ISSN: 1045-6007
In: Journal of social history, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 701-703
ISSN: 1527-1897
In: Thrift and Thriving in AmericaCapitalism and Moral Order from the Puritans to the Present, S. 508-530
In: International security, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 178-195
ISSN: 0162-2889
Rezension von: Diamond, Jared: Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed. - New York/N.Y. : Viking, 2004
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- PART I The Great Frontier: FREEDOM AND HIERARCHY IN MODERN TIMES -- Acknowledgments -- Lecture I: To 1750 -- Lecture II: From 1750 -- PART II The Human Condition: AN ECOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL VIEW -- Acknowledgments -- Microparasitism, Macroparasitism, and the Urban Transmutation -- Microparasitism, Macroparasitism, and the Commercial Transmutation -- PART III Control and Catastrophe in Human Affairs -- Notes -- Index.
In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Band 75, Heft 3, S. 491
ISSN: 1715-3379
In: Foreign affairs: an American quarterly review, Band 79, Heft 4, S. 151
ISSN: 2327-7793
In: Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History Series
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 dayExplores environmental thought and action around the world, to give readers a cultural, intellectual and political context for engagement with the environment in modern timesBrings together environmental historians from around the world, including scholars from South Africa, Brazil, Germany, and China.
In: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History Ser.
In: Oxford scholarship online
Sea and Land provides an in-depth environmental history of the Caribbean to ca. 1850, comprising a close examination of some of the central forces and characteristics that defined the region, with a coda that takes the story into the modern era. It explores the mixing, movement, and displacement of peoples and the parallel ecological mixing of animals, plants, microbes from Africa, Europe, elsewhere in the Americas, and indeed Asia. It examines first the arrival of Native American to the region and the environmental transformations that followed. It then turns to the even more dramatic changes that accompanied the arrival of Europeans and Africans in the fifteenth century. Throughout it argues that the constant arrival, dispersal, and mingling of new plants and animals gave rise to a creole ecology. Particular attention is given to the emergence of black slavery, sugarcane, and the plantation system, an unholy trinity that thoroughly transformed the region's demographic and physical landscapes and made the Caribbean a vital site in the creation of the modern western world. This volume integrates research concerning natural resources, conservation, epidemiology, and climate in a new general environmental history of the region. It makes environmental perspectives more accessible and more indispensable, to scholars and students alike, to foster both a fuller appreciation of the extent to which environmental factors shaped historical developments in the Caribbean and the extent to which human actions have transformed the biophysical environment of the region over time.
In: A history of the world
Global Interdependence provides a new account of world history from the end of World War II to the present, an era when transnational communities began to challenge the long domination of the nation-state. In this single-volume survey, leading scholars elucidate the political, economic, cultural, and environmental forces that have shaped the planet in the past sixty years.Offering fresh insight into international politics since 1945, Wilfried Loth examines how miscalculations by both the United States and the Soviet Union brought about a Cold War conflict that was not necessarily inevitable. Thomas Zeiler explains how American free-market principles spurred the creation of an entirely new economic order--a global system in which goods and money flowed across national borders at an unprecedented rate, fueling growth for some nations while also creating inequalities in large parts of the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa. From an environmental viewpoint, J. R. McNeill and Peter Engelke contend that humanity has entered a new epoch, the Anthropocene era, in which massive industrialization and population growth have become the most powerful influences upon global ecology. Petra Goedde analyzes how globalization has impacted indigenous cultures and questions the extent to which a generic culture has erased distinctiveness and authenticity. She shows how, paradoxically, the more cultures blended, the more diversified they became as well.Combining these different perspectives, volume editor Akira Iriye presents a model of transnational historiography in which individuals and groups enter history not primarily as citizens of a country but as migrants, tourists, artists, and missionaries--actors who create networks that transcend traditional geopolitical boundaries
[Campbell, K. M.; Weitz, R.]: Introduction: the methodological approach of this study and previous research on the impacts of climate change. - S. 13-22 [McNeill, J. R.]: Can history help us with global warming? - S. 23-34 [Gulledge, J.]: Three plausible scenarios of future climate change. - S. 35-54 [Podesta, J.; Ogden, P.]: Securtiy implications of climate scenario 1: expected climate change over next 30 years. - S. 55-70 [Fuerth, L.]: Security implications of climate scenario 2: severe climate change over next 30 years. - S. 71-80 [Woolsey, R. J.]: Security implications of climate scenario 3: catastrophic climate change over next 100 years. - S. 81-92 Smith, J.; Lennon, A. T. J.; Mix, D.: Setting the negotiating table : the race to replace Kyoto by 2012. - S. 93-102
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In: Bulletin of the atomic scientists, Band 71, Heft 3, S. 46-57
ISSN: 1938-3282