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4.4.1 Understanding and Controlling the Environment in Early Modern History (ca. 1500–1800)

  • Laurent Brassart (author)
  • Jessica Dijkman (author)
  • Jan Hansen(author)
  • Jirí Janác (author)
Chapter of: The European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000(pp. 529–538)
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Title4.4.1 Understanding and Controlling the Environment in Early Modern History (ca. 1500–1800)
ContributorLaurent Brassart (author)
Jessica Dijkman (author)
Jan Hansen(author)
Jirí Janác (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0323.49
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0323/chapters/10.11647/obp.0323.49
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightLaurent Brassart; Jessica Dijkman; Jan Hansen; Jiří Janáč
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2023-02-21
Page rangepp. 529–538
Print length9 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Contributors

Laurent Brassart

(author)
Université de Lille

Jessica Dijkman

(author)
Utrecht University

Jan Hansen

(author)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9551-2989

Jirí Janác

(author)
Charles University
References
  1. Crosby, Alfred W., The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (Westport, CN: Praeger, 2003).
  2. Grove, Richard, Green Imperialism. Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origin of Environmentalism, 1600-1860 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
  3. Marks, Robert. B., ‘“Exhausting the Earth”: Environment and History in the Early Modern World’, in The Cambridge World History, vol. VI, ed. by Jerry H. Bentley, Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 29–53.
  4. McNeill, J. R., ‘Energy, Population and Environmental Change Since 1750: Entering the Anthropocene’, in The Cambridge World History, vol. VII, ed. by J. R. McNeill and Kenneth Pomeranz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 51–82.
  5. Radkau, Joachim, Wood: A History (Cambridge: Polity, 2012).
  6. Warde, Paul, The Invention of Sustainability: Nature and Destiny, c. 1500–1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).

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