The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945, Paperback - J. R. McNeill

The Earth has entered a new age--the Anthropocene--in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth centu...

The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his s...

The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing ...

Reducere. DescriptionWestern Oregon's Willamette Basin, once a vast wilderness, became a thriving community almost overnight. When Oregon territory was opene...

An Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome - Lukas Thommen

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mark FiegeForeword by: William CrononIn the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes t...

DescriptionSince 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-b...

Reducere. From the arrival of Henry Hudson's Half Moon in the estuarial waters of what would come to be called New York Harbor to the 2006 agreement that lai...

Reducere. As the very first book of its kind, An Environmental History of Medieval Europe provides a highly original survey of medieval relations with the na...

DescriptionPresented here is the final and most coherent section of a sweeping classic work in environmental history, The Unending Frontier. The Wo...

Reducere. In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent important cultural, economic, and ecological transformation...

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Reducere. A corrective to the contemporary idea that Buddhism has always been an environmentally friendly religionIn the current popular imagination, Buddhis...

The former Soviet empire spanned eleven time zones and contained half the world's forests; vast deposits of oil, gas, and coal; various ores; major...

It examines many of the greatest collectors of our time in Europe, North America and the Far East, and follows their tastes - whether in the Old Ma...

Reducere. This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying betw...

Debated, denied, unheard of, encompassing: The Anthropocene is a vexed topic, and requires interdisciplinary imagination. Starting at the author's ...

Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes ...

This book examines ecology and culture in the Carpathian Mountains, with a focus on Ukraine's Galician Hutsul region from 1848 to 1939.Publisher: L...

Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second ha...

Reducere. How did the Civil War and the emancipation of four million slaves reconfigure the natural landscape in the South and the farming economy dependent ...

This lively synthesis of global history since the end of World War II offers a gripping account of an interdependent world and the challenges facin...

Reducere. For the last twenty years, The Destruction of the Bison has been an essential work in environmental history. Andrew C. Isenberg offers a concise an...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Mark (University of Aberystwyth, UK) WhiteheadIllustration(s): 25 Line drawings, color; 33 Halftones, col...

-A comprehensive survey of international affairs from the end of the Second World War, through to the Cold War and up to the present day---Provided...

Reducere. From the outset, society in Japan has been shaped by its environmental context. The lush green mountainous archipelago of today supports a populati...

Presents history of global change from 1945 onwards. This title explores therapid changes in the Middle East, the end of apartheid in South Africa ...

Reducere. Art Since 1900 introduces students to the key theoretical approaches to modern and contemporary art. A flexible year-by-year structure and extensiv...

Explores high and popular culture; family, race, gender and class relations; sexual attitudes and material conditions; science and technology - the...

Reducere. "This collection provides a powerful and sophisticated analysis of how environmental movements influence politics in Asia, and how politics influen...

Over 150 of the 20th century's most significant poems.Publisher: Quercus PublishingAuthor(s): Michael SchmidtNumber of pages: 224Publication date: ...

This comprehensive and widely acclaimed study of British history since 1945 has been has been expanded to include a new chapter looking at the conf...

Reducere. For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times--a period of unprecedented economic growth ...

Contemporary art is increasingly concerned with swaying the opinions of its viewier. To do so, the art employs various strategies to convey a polit...

An international and interdisciplinary team of scholars offer innovative models of thinking about environmentality in the humanities and in Anthrop...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Nicholas (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) WhiteIllustration(s): 1 Tables, black and whiteNumber of ...

Classic text on this subject, now revised, updated, expanded and redesigned for this third edition. There are many new illustrations too, including...

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One of the most famous and controversial works by possibly the highest profile historians of the twentieth century.