The environment and world history
By: edited by Edmund Burke, III and Kenneth Pomeranz.
Contributors: Pomeranz, Kenneth.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780520256873; 9780520256880
Subjects: Environmental sciences -- History
Description: In 11 essays, the contributors examine the connections between environmental change and other major topics of early modern world history: population growth, commercialization, imperialism, industrialization, the fossil fuel revolution, and more.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.