Global Environmental History introduces this rapidly developing field through a broad and thought-provoking range of expert contributions, it will be an essential resource for students of Environmental History and Global History.

Part 1: Global Perspectives 1. Changing Times: The Holocene Legacy William Dickinson 2. Dark is the World to Thee: A Historical Perspective on Environmental Forewarnings Teresa Kwiatowska and Alan Holland 3. Opportunities in Marine Environmental History W. Jeffrey Bolster 4. Gender and Environmental History Carolyn Merchant 5. Forged in Fire: History, Land, and Anthropogenic Fire Stephen Pyne 6. Rubber, Blight, and Mosquitoes: Biogeography Meets the Global Economy Donald Kennedy and Marjorie Lucks 7. Animal Planet Harriet Ritvo 8. Evolutionary History: Prospectus for a New Field Edmund Russell 9. Ecological Imperialism: The Overseas Migration of Western Europeans as a Biological Phenomenon Alfred Crosby Part 2: Regional Perspectives 10. Environment and Society: Long-Term Trends in Latin American Mining Elizabeth Dore 11. Exceptionalism in European Environmental History Joachim Radkau 12. Three Thousand Years of Unsustainable Growth: China's Environment from Archaic Times to the Present Mark Elvin 13. The Predatory Tribute-Taking State: A Framework for Understanding Russian Environmental History Douglas Weiner 14. Ecology and Culture in West Africa James L. Webb Part 3: Environmentalisms 15. The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature William Cronon 16. Ecology and the Poor: A Neglected Dimension of Latin American History Joan Martinez-Alier 17. Conservation Movement in Post-War Japan Catherine Knight

John R. McNeill is University Professor in the Department of History and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. His previous works include Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, winner of the Beveridge Prize of the American Historical Association, and Something New Under The Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-century World, winner of the World History Association Book Prize.

Alan Roe is a Ph.D. student in Russian environmental history at the Department of History, Georgetown University.