Since around 1500 C.E., humans have shaped the global environment in ways that were previously unimaginable. Bringing together leading environmental historians and world historians, this book offers an overview of global environmental history throughout this remarkable 500-year period. In eleven essays, the contributors examine the connections between environmental change and o...(展开全部)

Since around 1500 C.E., humans have shaped the global environment in ways that were previously unimaginable. Bringing together leading environmental historians and world historians, this book offers an overview of global environmental history throughout this remarkable 500-year period. In eleven essays, the contributors examine the connections between environmental change and o...(展开全部)

This book aims to demonstrate that the changing relationship between humanity and nature is key to understanding world history. Humans have been grappling with environmental problems since prehistoric times, and the environmental unsustainability of human practices has often been a decisive, if not immediately evident, shaping factor in history. The measures that societies and ...(展开全部)

This book aims to demonstrate that the changing relationship between humanity and nature is key to understanding world history. Humans have been grappling with environmental problems since prehistoric times, and the environmental unsustainability of human practices has often been a decisive, if not immediately evident, shaping factor in history. The measures that societies and ...(展开全部)

This second volume of Voegelin's magisterial Order and History, The World of the Polis, explores the ancient Greek symbolization of human reality. Taking us from the origins of Greek culture in the Pre-Homeric Cretan civilizations, through the Iliad and Odyssey, Hesiod, and the rise of philosophy with the Pre-Socratics Parmenides and Heraclitus, this masterful work concludes wi...(展开全部)

威廉·贝纳特　英国布里斯托大学历史系高级讲师，作品有《南非乡村隐藏的斗争》（合著，1987）、《二十世纪的南非》（1994）、《二十世纪南非的种族隔离》（合编，1995）、《南非资源保护主义的兴起：1770—1950》（2003）、《社会史与非洲环境》（合编，2003）、《环境与帝国》（合著，2007）。 彼得·科茨　英国布里斯托大学讲师，著有《阿拉斯加输油管之争》（1991）、《自然：西方古代以来的观念》（1998；2005）、《美国人对移民和入侵物种的感知》（2007）。

The influence of human economies and cultures on ecosystems is particularly striking in the new worlds into which Europeans have expanded over the past five hundred years. Using a comparative and multidisciplinary approach, Beinart and Coates examine this neglected aspect of the history of settler incursion and dominance in two frontier nations, the USA and South Africa. They a...(展开全部)

威廉姆•J. 杜克（William J. Duiker），美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学东亚学名誉教授。学术兴趣极为广泛，主要研究领域为民族主义和亚洲革命，其作品Ho Chi Minh：A Life（Hyperion 2000）曾提名2001年普利策奖。 杰克森•J. 斯皮尔沃格（Jackson J. Spielvogel），美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学历史学名誉副教授。主要研究领域为宗教史、纳粹德国史和西方文明史，代表作有Western Civilization等。 译者 易丙兰， 北京大学历史学博士，现主要从事中国近现代史的教学科研工作。

Explore common challenges and experiences that unite the human past and identify key global patterns over time withTHE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY: to 1500. This brief overview of world history covers political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military history integrated into a chronologically ordered synthesis to help you gain an appreciation and understan...(展开全部)