Companion to Global Environmental History

J. R. McNeill is the former President of the American Society for Environmental History and the American Historical Association. The author or editor of 23 books, McNeill is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academia Europaea, and the Royal Academy of Morocco. He received the Heineken Award for History from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018. Erin Stewart Mauldin is the John Hope Franklin Chair of Southern History at the University of South Florida. She is the author of the award-winning Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South and the co-editor of the Environmental History and the American South series.

• List of Maps and Figures viiiNotes on Contributors ixAcknowledgments xivGlobal Environmental History: An Updated Introduction xvJ. R. McNeill and Erin Stewart MauldinPart I Times 11 Global Environmental History: The First 300,000 Years 3J. R. McNeill2 The Ancient World, c. 500 bce– 500 ce 16J. Donald Hughes and J. R. McNeill3 The Medieval World, 500– 1500 ce 34Daniel Headrick4 The (Modern) World Since 1500 49Robert B. Marks and J. R. McNeillPart II Places 635 The Environmental History of Southeast Asia 65Peter Boomgaard and Michitake Aso6 The Environmental History of Africa 80Jeremiah Kitunda7 The Environmental History of Latin America 93Shawn W. Miller8 The Environmental History of the United States 109Erin Stewart Mauldin9 The Environmental History of the Arctic and Subarctic 124Liza Piper10 The Environmental History of the Middle East 137Alan Mikhail and Faisal H. Husain11 The Environmental History of Australia 151Emily O’Gorman and Libby Robin12 Oceania: The Environmental History of One-Third of the Globe 165Paul D’Arcy13 The Environmental History of the Soviet Union 187Stephen Brain14 The Environmental History of China 205Yuan Julian Chen15 The Environmental History of South Asia 221Michael H. Fisher16 The Environmental History of Central Eurasia 244Yuan GaoPart III Drivers of Change and Environmental Transformations 25917 The Grasslands of North America and Northern Eurasia 261David Moon18 Global Forests 275Nancy Langston and Michael J. Dockry19 Fishing and Whaling 288Micah S. Muscolino20 Riverine Environments 304Alan Roe and Iftekhar Iqbal21 War and the Environment 314Richard P. Tucker and J.R. McNeill22 Technology and the Environment 331Paul Josephson23 Evolution and the Environment 349Edmund Russell24 Climate Change in Global Environmental History 361Sam White25 Industrial Agriculture 375Meredith McKittrick26 Biological Exchange in Global Environmental History 395J. R. McNeill27 Urban Environmental History 412Janna CoomansPart IV Environmental Thought and Action 42728 Environmentalism in Brazil: A Historical Perspective 429José Augusto Pádua29 Environmentalism and Environmental Movements in China Since 1949 448Bao Maohong30 Religion and Environmentalism 463Joachim Radkau31 The Environmentalism of the Poor: Its Origins and Spread 479Joan Martinez-Alier32 Global Environmental Governance 493Iris Borowy33 Modern Environmentalism in Europe 510Jan-Henrik MeyerIndex 527