Environment and Empire

by William Beinart and Lotte Hughes

Book Overview

European imperialism was extraordinarily far-reaching: a key global historical process of the last 500 years. It locked disparate human societies together over a wider area than any previous imperial expansion; it underpinned the repopulation of the Americas and Australasia; it was the precursor of globalization as we now understand it. Imperialism was inseparable from the history of global environmental change. Metropolitan countries sought raw materials...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199260311
• ISBN13: 9780199260317
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.5"