Since around 1500 CE, humans have shaped the global environment in ways that were previously unimaginable. This book offers an overview of global environmental history throughout this remarkable 500-year period. It examines the connections between environmental change and other topics of early and modern world history.
"This collection makes a valuable contribution to the literature. The essays have broad themes and impressive historical sweep. The Burke and Pomeranz volume will find a place on the bookshelf of every environmental historian who teaches the increasingly prevalent survey of world environmental history."-James L.A. Webb, Jr., author of Humanity's Burden: A Global History of Malaria
"This well-organized, clearly written volume finally eliminates any anxiety environmental historians have wrestled with for decades."
