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| − | We think of [http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Category:Globalization globalization] as a recent phenomenon, but it's not exactly true. Much of the inequality was a long time in the making. See [http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Category:History History] (also [http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Category:Africa Africa]). See also [http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Development Development]. | + | We think of [http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Category:Globalization globalization] as a recent phenomenon, but it's not exactly true. Much of the inequality was a long time in the making. See [http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Category:History History] (also [http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Category:Africa Africa] and [http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Latin_America Latin America]). See also [http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Development Development]. |
Juan González's [http://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Empire-History-Latinos-America/dp/0143119281#reader_0143119281 Harvest of Empire] takes an unflinching look at the role that U.S. economic and military interests played in triggering an unprecedented wave of migration that is transforming our nation’s cultural and economic landscape. It's now the basis of a [http://vimeo.com/48145023 new documentary]. [http://www.democracynow.org/2012/9/25/harvest_of_empire_new_film_recounts Democracy Now segment]. | Juan González's [http://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Empire-History-Latinos-America/dp/0143119281#reader_0143119281 Harvest of Empire] takes an unflinching look at the role that U.S. economic and military interests played in triggering an unprecedented wave of migration that is transforming our nation’s cultural and economic landscape. It's now the basis of a [http://vimeo.com/48145023 new documentary]. [http://www.democracynow.org/2012/9/25/harvest_of_empire_new_film_recounts Democracy Now segment]. | ||
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We think of globalization as a recent phenomenon, but it's not exactly true. Much of the inequality was a long time in the making. See History (also Africa and Latin America). See also Development.
Juan González's Harvest of Empire takes an unflinching look at the role that U.S. economic and military interests played in triggering an unprecedented wave of migration that is transforming our nation’s cultural and economic landscape. It's now the basis of a new documentary. Democracy Now segment.
A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations by Clive Ponting 1991 McH Stacks GF75 .P66 1993. Great overview.
Natures Past : the environment and human history / Paolo Squatriti, editor Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2007 McH Stacks - GF13 .N38 2007 Link
Environment and Empire (UK) / William Beinart and Lotte Hughes Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 McH Stacks - GF551 .B45 2007
Late Victorian Holocausts (searchable) By Mike Davis, see also his modern take City of Slums.
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Changes in the Land by William Cronon was long the central text in the Core course, a pioneering work in eco-history, and it it still the best explanation of how we got where we are. These excerpts (requires course login) documents how Native Americans related to nature, and what happened when the market was introduced. Ch. 8 is the summary/conclusion. He was also wrote "Trouble with Wilderness," which set off a lively debate, which concludes here.
