Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History Of The Twentieth Century World"McNeill's work is a fruitful compound of history and science. McNeill infuses a substrate of ecology with a lively historical sensibility to the significance of politics, international relations, technological change, and great events. He charts and explores the breathtaking ways in which we have changed the natural world with a keen eye for character and a refreshing respect for the unforeseen in history."--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
List of Maps and Tables Foreword by Paul Kennedy XV | 1941 |
List of Maps and Tables | 1945 |
Prologue Peculiarities ofaProdigal Century 3 | 1955 |
TheLithosphereandPedospherezTheCrustoftheEarth 21 | 1972 |
10 | 1973 |
Regional and Global History 84 | 1981 |
THE AIR IN APAN 92 | 1987 |
ACID RAIN 99 | 1992 |
LAKES AND EUTROPHICATION 136 | |
CONCLUSION 147 | |
TAMING FLOODS AND DRAINING WETLANDS 183 | |
COASTLINES 189 | |
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TABLES | |
So What? 357 | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY 363 | |
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