A Century of Environmental Transitions

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American Historical Association, 2011 - Business & Economics - 40 pages
Tucker examines the environmental impact of industrialization, starting with its western origins in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and its complete globalization in the twentieth century.

About the author (2011)

Richard P. Tucker is adjunct professor of environmental history in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. His recent work includes Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World (2000, 2007), and works on the history of the environmental impact of war and environment.