The Human Footprint A Global Environmental History 2nd Edition by Anthony Penna ISBN 978-1118912461 1118912462

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ISBN 10:  1118912462

ISBN 13: 978-1118912461

Author: Anthony N. Penna

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction

2. The Nature of World History

3. The Nature of Big History

4. The Nature of World Environmental History

5. Earth’s History and Human Origins

6. Mass Migrations and the Rise of Agriculture

7. Population Growth and the Rise of Cities

8. Cities and the Rise of Manufacturing and Industry

9. World Trade and New World Ecology

10. Fossil Fuels and Climate Change

11. Notes

12. An Evolving Earth

13. Introduction (Evolving Earth)

14. The Origins of Earth and Its Unique Atmosphere: From Hot to Cold Planet

15. Icehouse Planet and Greenhouse Planet

16. Plate Tectonics, Super-continents, and Climate Change

17. The Warming

18. The Cooling

19. The Elevation of the Tibetan Plateau and Its Effect on the Global Climate

20. The Birth, Death, and Rebirth of the Mediterranean Sea and Its Hemispheric Environmental Effects

21. The Impact of the Isthmus of Panama on Global Climate Change

22. The Mid-Pliocene, Glacial and Interglacial Cycles, and “Modern” Times

23. Notes (Evolving Earth)

24. Evolving Humanity

25. Introduction (Evolving Humanity)

26. Climatic Changes and Evolution

27. Another Effect of the Closing of the Mediterranean Sea

28. Human Ancestry

29. The Birth of Human Intelligence

30. Early Diets and Their Nutritional Value

31. Translating Human Intelligence into Action

32. Tectonic Upheavals, Landscape Changes, and Climate

33. Population Migration and Expansion

34. Homo Neanderthalensis vs. Homo Sapiens

35. The Broad Spectrum: An Economic Revolution

36. Notes (Evolving Humanity)

37. Foraging, Cultivating, and Food Production

38. Introduction (Foraging, Cultivating)

39. Early Farming and a Warming Climate

40. Settlement and Domestication

41. Early Agricultural Communities

42. Early Agriculture in China

43. Early Agriculture in Africa

44. Early Agriculture in Mesoamerica

45. Early Agriculture in Europe

46. World Agriculture during the Age of Manufacture and Industry

47. The First Green Revolution, 1840–1930

48. The Second Green Revolution, 1945–

49. Agro-business, Food Prices, and Climate Change

50. Notes (Foraging, Cultivating)

51. Populating the Earth: Diet, Domestication, and Disease

52. Introduction (Populating the Earth)

53. A Modern Demographic Scenario

54. The Role of Disease in Calculating Population Size

55. The Impact of Migration and Settlement on Global Population Growth

56. The Role of Nutrition in Early Population Growth

57. The Role of Animal Domestication in the Spread of Infectious Disease

58. Nutrition, Climate Change, and Population

59. A Population Bomb or Not?

60. Notes (Populating the Earth)

61. The Making of an Urban World

62. Introduction (Urban World)

63. What Does “Urban” Mean?

64. Early Urbanization and Its Environmental Effects

65. Ancient Urbanization

66. The Origin of Writing

67. The Impact of Changing Rivers on Environmental Quality

68. Urbanization in the Indus Valley

69. China’s Early Cities

70. Ancient Mesoamerican Cities

71. Early European Cities

72. Notes (Urban World)

73. Mining, Making, and Manufacturing

74. Introduction (Mining, Making)

75. The Age of Copper and Bronze

76. The Effects of Ancient Mining on Human Health and the Environment

77. Mining in the Roman World

78. The Age of Iron

79. Iron-Making in China and India

80. Iron-Making in Premodern Europe

81. Manufacturing in West Africa, 1350–1800 CE

82. Manufacturing in Colonial America

83. Manufacturing in the Modern World

84. Notes (Mining, Making)

85. Industrial Work

86. Introduction (Industrial Work)

87. The Economies of China and India

88. European Hegemony and British Industrialization

89. Economic Developments in China, Japan, and India

90. Harnessing the Power of Water

91. Disease, Death, and a Public Health Response

92. The Power of Steam

93. The Role of Invention and Innovation

94. Comparing Industrialization in the United States and Britain

95. Coal, Iron, and Steel

96. Industrial Transformation and Global Auto Mobility

97. Notes (Industrial Work)

98. Trade and Consumption

99. Introduction (Trade and Consumption)

100. Global Trading Networks

101. Distancing Consumers from Producers

102. Material Goods

103. Luxury Foods Become Commodities

104. Tobacco

105. Sugar

106. Coffee and Tea

107. Environmental Effects of Increased Cultivation of Coffee

108. Conspicuous Consumption

109. Global Consumption

110. The Automobile and Electronics in Emerging Markets

111. The Great Recession, 2008–2013

112. Notes (Trade and Consumption)

113. Fossil Fuels and Wind, Water, Nuclear, and Solar Energy

114. Introduction (Fossil Fuels and Energy)

115. The Eotechnic World: Waterwheels and Windmills

116. The Paleotechnic World: Energy from Coal

117. The Neotechnic World: Energy from Oil

118. The Developing World’s Demands for Energy

119. The Case for Natural Gas: A Neotechnic Energy Solution

120. Hydraulic Fracturing of Rock, or “Fracking,” to Release Natural Gas Deposits

121. The Case for Nuclear Energy: Another Neotechnic Solution

122. The Case for Renewable Wind and Solar Power: A Return to the Eotechnic

123. Notes (Fossil Fuels and Energy)

124. A Warming Climate

125. Introduction (Warming Climate)

126. The Rise and Fall of the Mayan Civilization

127. The Medieval Warm Period (1000–1300 CE) and Little Ice Age (1300–1850 CE)

128. Current Global Climate Conditions

129. The Role of Solar Energy

130. The Role of the Atlantic Circulation Energy Exchange

131. The Role of Fossil Fuel Emissions

132. What Is to Be Done?

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