TY - BOOK AU - Burke,Edmund AU - Pomeranz,Kenneth TI - The environment and world history T2 - The California world history library SN - 9780520256873 (cloth : alk. paper) PY - 2009/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Ecologie humaine KW - Histoire KW - Homme KW - Influence sur la nature KW - Sciences de l'environnement KW - histoire (discipline) KW - sciences de l'environnement KW - [âetudes diverses] KW - rero KW - environnement naturel KW - histoire KW - homme (ãetre humain) KW - Antiquite / 20e s KW - [etudes diverses] N1 - Bibliogr.: p. 317-336; 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 ER -