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  • China

    An Environmental History

    by Robert B. Marks ...
    Series series World Social Change
    This deeply informed and clearly written text provides a comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory to the present. Now updated to include recent political events and scientific research, the book focuses on the interaction of humans and their environment. Tracing changes in the physical and cultural world that is home to a fifth of humankind, Robert B. Marks illuminates the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Origins of the Modern World

    A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century

    by Robert B. Marks ...
    Series series World Social Change
    This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the “rise of the West” is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World and upon the maturing field of environmental history, constructs a story in which ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin

    Nature and History over the Last 10,000 Years

    by Robert B. Marks ...
    Ten millennia in the Mono Lake Basin, showing how this complex ecosystem came to be what it is today.Nestled at the base of the Sierra Nevada in eastern California sits a stunning landscape overlooking a saline lake with picturesque tufa towers and flocks of phalarope birds. This is the Mono Lake Basin.In this sweeping history, Robert B. Marks examines the forces that have shaped the Mono Lake ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Encounters Old and New in World History

    Essays Inspired by Jerry H. Bentley

    by Alan Karras, Laura J. Mitchell, Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson, Professor Lauren Benton, Professor Edmund Burke III, Professor Trevor R. Getz, Professor Candice Goucher, Dr. Martin W. Lewis0, Professor Robert B. Marks1, Carla Rahn Phillips2, Professor William D. Philiips3, Professor Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks4, Theodore Jun Yoo5 ...
    Series series Perspectives on the Global Past
    This collection of essays asserts the specific value of world history research and teaching, showing how the field contributes to the larger historical profession and offering concrete suggestions to develop more interaction between the academy and the public. The twelve contributors, each with their own academic areas of interest, are experienced scholars and classroom teachers. Uniting them ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China

    Essays in Honor of Maurice Meisner

    by Catherine Lynch, Lee Feigon, Sooyoung Kim, Thomas Lutze, Paul G. Pickowicz, Tina Mai Chen, Robert B. Marks, Bruce Cumings ...
    Series series AsiaWorld
    This volume illuminates the relationship of China's radical past to its reformist present as China makes a way forward through very differently conceived and contested visions of the future. In the context of early twenty-first century problems and the failures of global capitalism, is China's history of revolutionary socialism an aberration that is soon to be forgotten, or can it serve as a ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Rethinking Environmental History

    World-System History and Global Environmental Change

    by Joan Martinez-Alier, Stephen G. Bunker, William H. Fisher, Rafael A. Gassón, Stefan Giljum, N Thomas Håkansson, Josiah Heyman, J Donald Hughes, Andrew K. Jorgenson0, Robert B. Marks1, Jason W. Moore2, Roldan Muradian3, Janken Myrdal4, James Rice5, Joseph A. Tainter6, Immanuel Wallerstein7, Helga Weisz8, Mats Widgren9, Richard Wilk0, Michael Williams1 ...
    Series series Globalization and the Environment
    This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the prominent social scientists, historians, and geographical scientists to provide a historical overview of the ecological dimension of global economic processes. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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    The Origins of the Modern World

    A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century

    by Robert B. Marks ...
    Narrated by James Anderson Foster ...
    Series series World Social Change

    Unabridged

    12 hours 38 min

    This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the “rise of the West” is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World and upon the maturing field of environmental history, constructs a story in which ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Late Victorian Holocausts

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  • Natural Experiments of History

    by Jared Diamond ...
    In eight case studies by leading scholars in history, archaeology, business, economics, geography, and political science, the authors showcase the “natural experiment” or “comparative method”—well-known in any science concerned with the past—on the discipline of human history. That means, according to the editors, “comparing, preferably quantitatively and aided by statistical analyses, different ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Global Environmental History

    Edited by J. R. McNeill, Erin Stewart Mauldin ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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  • The Retreat of the Elephants

    An Environmental History of China

    by Mark Elvin ...
    The eminent China scholar delivers a landmark study of Chinese culture's relationship to the natural environment across thousands of years of history.Spanning the three millennia for which there are written records, The Retreat of the Elephants is the first comprehensive environmental history of China. It is also a treasure trove of literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources ... Read more

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