Rethinking Environmental History: World-system History and Global Environmental ChangeAlf Hornborg, John Robert McNeill, Juan Martínez Alier This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world systems over time. Alf Hornborg has brought together a group of the foremost writers from the social, historical and geographical sciences to provide an overview of the ecological dimension of global, economic processes, with a long-term, historical perspective. Readers are challenged to integrate studies of the Earth system with studies of the World system, and to reconceptualize human-environmental relations and the challenges of global sustainability. Immanuel Wallerstein, renowned Yale sociologist and originator of the world-system concept, closes the volume with his reflections on the intellectual, moral, and political implications of global environmental change. |
Contents
Environmental Impacts of the Roman Economy and Social Structure Augustus to Diocletian | 25 |
People Said Extinction Was Not Possible Two Thousand Years of Environmental Change in South China | 39 |
Precolonial Landesque Capital A Global Perspective | 59 |
Food War and Crisis The Seventeenth Century Swedish Empire | 77 |
The Role of Deforestation in Earth and WorldSystem Integration | 99 |
Silver Ecology and the Origins of the Modern World 14501640 | 121 |
Trade Trinkets and Environmental Change at the Edge of WorldSystems Political Ecology and the East African Ivory Trade | 141 |
Steps to an Environmental History of the Western Llanos of Venezuela A WorldSystem Perspective | 161 |
Natural Values and the Physical Inevitability of Uneven Development under Capitalism | 237 |
Footprints in the Cotton Fields The Industrial Revolution as TimeSpace Appropriation and Environmental Load Displacement | 257 |
Uneven Ecological Exchange and ConsumptionBased Environmental Impacts A CrossNational Investigation | 271 |
Combining Social Metabolism and InputOutput Analyses to Account for Ecologically Unequal Trade | 287 |
Physical Trade Flows of PollutionIntensive Products Historical Trends in Europe and the World | 305 |
Environmental Issues at the USMexico Border and the Unequal Territorialization of Value | 325 |
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Scale and Dependency in WorldSystems Local Societies in Convergent Evolution | 359 |
The Extractive Economy An Early Phase of the Globalization of Diet and Its Environmental Consequences | 177 |
Yellow Jack and Geopolitics Environment Epidemics and the Struggles for Empire in the American Tropics 16401830 | 197 |
ECOLOGY AND UNEQUAL EXCHANGE UNRAVELING ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE IN THE MODERN WORLD | 217 |
Marxism Social Metabolism and International Trade | 219 |
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