Rethinking environmental history : world-system history and global environmental change

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Rethinking environmental history : world-system history and global environmental change / edited by Alf Hornborg, J.R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier.

Hornborg, Alf. (Added Author). McNeill, John Robert. (Added Author). Martínez Alier, Juan. (Added Author).

Summary:

"This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J.R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the prominent social scientists, historians, and geographical scientists to provide a historical overview of the ecological dimension of global economic processes. Readers are challenged to integrate studies of the Earth-system with studies of the world-system, and to reconceptualize the relations between human beings and their environment, as well as the challenges of global sustainability."--Pub. desc.

Record details

ISBN: 9780759110274 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0759110271 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780759110281 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 075911028X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xi, 408 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Lanham : AltaMira Press, c2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: 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.