TY - BOOK AU - McNeill,John Robert AU - Crosby,Alfred W. TI - Environmental history in the Pacific world T2 - Pacific world SN - 0754601544 AV - GF798 .E58 2001 U1 - 304.28091823 21 PY - 2001///] CY - Aldershot, Hampshire, Burlington, Vt. PB - Ashgate KW - Human ecology KW - Pacific Area KW - History KW - Nature KW - Effect of human beings on KW - Environmental conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Commercialization without Capitalism: Processes of Environmental Change in South China, 1550-; Robert B. Marks --; 2; Three Thousand Years of Unsustainable Growth: China's Environment from Archaic Times to the Present; Mark Elvin --; 3; Of Rats and Men: A Synoptic Environmental History of the Island Pacific; J.R. McNeill --; 4; Coming to Terms with Nature: State and Environment in Maritime Southeast Asia; Greg Bankoff --; 5; Peripheral Visions: Californian-Australian Environmental Contacts, c. 1850s-; Ian Tyrell --; 6; Biotic Change in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand; Alfred W Crosby --; 7; Population of the French Overseas Territories in the Pacific, Past, Present and Projected; J.-L. Rallu --; 8; Hydraulic Society in California: An Ecological Interpretation; Donald Worster --; 9; Humans and Forests in Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia; Anthony Reid --; 10; Discrepancies between Environmental Attitude and Behaviour: Examples from Europe and China; Yi-Fu Tuan --; 11; Towards an Interactive Theory of Nature and Culture: Ecology, Production, and Cognition in the California; Fishing Industry --; 12; Putting a Ceiling on Sealing: Conservation and Cooperation in the International Arena, 1909-; Kurk Dorsey --; 13; A Sacred Mountain of Gold: The Creation of a Mining Resource Frontier in Papua New Guinea; David Hyndman --; 14; Ecology and the Poor: A Neglected Dimension of Latin American History; Joan Martinez-Alier --; 15; Patterns of Landscape Modification in Relation to Agricultural Practice in Central Chile; Eduardo R. Fuentes and Ernst R. Hajek --; 16; Resource Use and Environmental Management in Japan, 1890-; A. Radha Krishnan and Malcolm Tull --; 17; The Forests of Tokugawa Japan: A Catastrophe that was Avoided; Conrad Totman ER -