Category:Colonialism

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).

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 By Mike Davis

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.