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    <namePart>Burke, Edmund</namePart>
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    <namePart>Pomeranz, Kenneth.</namePart>
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    <publisher>University of California Press</publisher>
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    <extent>xvi, 361 p. : ill., maps ;</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Introduction : world history and environmental history / Kenneth Pomeranz -- The big story : human history, energy regimes, and the environment / Edmund Burke III -- Toward a global system of property rights in land / John F. Richards -- The transformation of the Middle Eastern environment, 1500 B.C.E.-2000 C.E. / Edmund Burke III -- The transformation of China's environment, 1500-2000 / Kenneth Pomeranz -- The Rhine as a world river / Mark Cioc -- Continuity and transformation : colonial rice frontiers and their environmental impact on the great river deltas of mainland Southeast Asia / Michael Adas -- Beyond the colonial paradigm : African history and environmental history in large-scale perspective / William Beinart -- Environmental histories of India : of states, landscapes, and ecologies / Mahesh Rangarajan -- Latin American environmental history : a shifting old/new field / Lise Sedrez -- The predatory tribute-taking state : a framework for understanding Russian environmental history / Douglas R. Weiner.</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>HKBU library</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Edmund Burke III and Kenneth Pomeranz.</note>
  <note type="venue">YT2025 M09</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Human ecology</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Nature</topic>
    <topic>Effect of human beings on</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Environmental sciences</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">GF13 E56 2009</classification>
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