This volume brings together a set of key articles from the last 30 years pertaining to the environmental history of the Pacific basin. It aims to treat the islands and waters of the Pacific as well as
This book describes and analyses the environmental history of the mountain areas of the Mediterranean world, focusing on Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Morocco. The author examines the land and its
The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his startling new book, J. R. McNeill gives us our first
This reference features 520 articles on subjects that address regional, national, and global environmental events, issues, people, natural resources, and culture. Topics were selected in categories th
Thirty years ago, Alfred Crosby published a small work that illuminated a simple point, that the most important changes brought on by the voyages of Columbus were not social or political, but biologic
Crosby (American studies, history, and geography, U. of Texas-Austin) adds a new preface pointing out some of the deficiencies, and some of the enduring qualities, of his 1972 treatise about the impac
