The environment and world history / 
edited by Edmund Burke III and Kenneth Pomeranz. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  c2009. 
 - xvi, 361 p. :  ill., maps ; 
 - The California world history library ;  9 .
<br/><br/> Introduction : world history and environmental history /  The big story : human history, energy regimes, and the environment /  Toward a global system of property rights in land /  The transformation of the Middle Eastern environment, 1500 B.C.E.-2000 C.E. /  The transformation of China's environment, 1500-2000 /  The Rhine as a world river /  Continuity and transformation : colonial rice frontiers and their environmental impact on the great river deltas of mainland Southeast Asia /  Beyond the colonial paradigm : African history and environmental history in large-scale perspective /  Environmental histories of India : of states, landscapes, and ecologies /  Latin American environmental history : a shifting old/new field /  The predatory tribute-taking state : a framework for understanding Russian environmental history /  Kenneth Pomeranz --  Edmund Burke III --  John F. Richards --  Edmund Burke III --  Kenneth Pomeranz --  Mark Cioc --  Michael Adas --  William Beinart --  Mahesh Rangarajan --  Lise Sedrez --  Douglas R. Weiner.  HKBU library 
<br/><br/> YT2025 M09 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780520256873 0520256875 9780520256880 0520256883 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human ecology--History.<br/>Nature--Effect of human beings on--History.<br/>Environmental sciences--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GF13  / E56 2009