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"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 other major topics of early modern and modern world history: population growth, commercialization, imperialism, industrialization, the fossil fuel revolution, and more. Rather than attributing environmental change largely to European science, technology, and capitalism, the essays illuminate a series of culturally distinctive, yet often parallel developments arising in many parts of the world, leading to intensified exploitation of land and water.The wide range of regional studies—including some in Russia, China, the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Southern Africa, and Western Europe—together with the book's broader thematic essays makes The Environment and World History ideal for courses that seek to incorporate the environment and environmental change more fully into a truly integrative understanding of world history."--

Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- World history --- Environmental sciences --- Human ecology --- Nature --- History. --- Effect of human beings on

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Is the history of the modern world the history of Europe writ large? Or is it possible to situate the history of modernity as a world historical process apart from its origins in Western Europe? In this posthumous collection of essays, Marshall G. S. Hodgson challenges adherents of both Eurocentrism and multiculturalism to rethink the place of Europe in world history. He argues that the line that connects Ancient Greeks to the Renaissance to modern times is an optical illusion, and that a global and Asia-centred history can better locate the European experience in the shared histories of humanity. Hodgson then shifts the historical focus and in a parallel move seeks to locate the history of Islamic civilisation in a world historical framework. In so doing he concludes that there is but one history - global history - and that all partial or privileged accounts must necessarily be resituated in a world historical context. The book also includes an introduction by the editor, Edmund Burke, contextualising Hodgson's work in world history and Islamic history.

Islam --- History as a science --- World history --- Civilisation islamique --- Islamic influences --- Influence islamique --- History --- Islamic civilization --- Universal history --- Civilization, Islamic --- Civilization, Western --- History, Modern --- Philosophy --- Western influences --- Occidental influences --- Europe --- Civilization --- Islamic influences. --- World history. --- Philosophy. --- Western influences. --- Histoire --- Histoire universelle --- Influence occidentale --- Philosophie --- Civilisation --- Europe - Civilization - Islamic influences. --- Civilization, Islamic - Western influences. --- Arts and Humanities --- Civilization, Islamic - Western influences --- History - Philosophy --- Europe - Civilization - Islamic influences

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This long-awaited book is a vivid history of Frelimo, the liberation movement that gained power in Mozambique following the sudden collapse of Portuguese rule in 1974. The leading scholar of the liberation struggle in Portuguese Africa, John Marcum completed this work shortly before his death, after a lifetime of research and close contact with many of the major Mozambican nationalists of the time. Assembled from his rich archive of unpublished letters, diaries, and transcribed conversations with figures such as Eduardo Mondlane, Adelino Gwambe, and Marcelino dos Santos, this book captures the key issues and personalities that shaped the era. With unique insight into the Mozambican struggle and the tragic short-sightedness of U.S. policy, Conceiving Mozambique encourages a dispassionate re-examination of the movement’s costs as well as its remarkable accomplishments.

International relations. Foreign policy --- World history --- History --- History of Africa --- imperialisme --- Afrikaans --- wereldgeschiedenis --- geschiedenis --- politiek --- kolonialisme --- Sub-Saharan Africa --- North Africa --- Mozambique --- Africa --- National liberation movements --- Imperialism. --- World history. --- History, Modern. --- History of Sub-Saharan Africa. --- African Politics. --- Imperialism and Colonialism. --- World History, Global and Transnational History. --- Modern History. --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Liberation movements, National --- Nationalism --- Revolutions --- Modern history --- World history, Modern --- Universal history --- FRELIMO (Organization) --- F.R.E.L.I.M.O. (Organization) --- Frente de Libertação de Moçambique --- Front de libération du Mozambique --- Front osvobozhdenii︠a︡ Mozambika --- Fronten for frigjøring av Mozambique --- Mozambique Liberation Front --- Parti Frelimo --- Partido F.R.E.L.I.M.O. --- Partido FRELIMO --- Mozambique African National Union --- União Democrática Nacional de Moçambique --- History. --- Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Politics and government.

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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 together in this volume is their professional relationship with Jerry H. Bentley (1949-2012). This shared connection served as a catalyst to showcase Bentley's enduring legacy: a commitment to investigating large-scale questions with detailed empirical evidence that explains the human condition-documenting both patterns of similarity and difference in ways that account for regional and temporal variations. The volume continues Bentley's meticulous attention to world historical methods: focus on scale, cross-cultural encounter, comparison, periodization, critical geography, and interdisciplinarity. Encounters Old and New in World History responds to provocations that Jerry Bentley tendered in his scholarship and through his professional activities. Contributors interrogate the institutional settings, disciplinary proclivities, methodological choices, and diverse source bases of world history research and teaching. Several essays address the ways in which present-day concerns influence research on local and global scales. Other essays pay particular attention to the production and circulation of knowledge across regional, temporal, and class boundaries, as well as between the academy and the wider public. Claiming the centrality of globally informed and focused approaches to historical inquiry, researchers continue the conversations that Bentley carried on through his own scholarship, teaching, editing of the Journal of World History, participating in public forums, and contributing to public discussions about the place of history in understanding today's global integration. The stakes involved in asking questions about the shared history of humankind continue to increase in the current era of intensified globalization. It is incumbent upon scholars with the skills to work across linguistic, geographic, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries to show the ways that cross-cultural encounters happened historically, and to point out how such interactions play out in the institutions, classrooms, and public debates where historical interpretations are created and shared.

World history. --- Universal history --- History