• Alf HORNBORG, J.R. MCNEILL & Joan MARTINEZ-ALIER eds., 2007: Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change. Lanham MD USA: AltaMira Press, 408 pp. ISBN 978-0-7591-1028-1 (pbk).

Contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments ... xi
• Introduction: Environmental History as Political Ecology /Alf Hornborg (Lund University) ... 1

Part I. The Environment in World-System History: Tracing Social Processes in Nature

• 1. Environmental Impacts of the Roman Economy and Social Structure: Augustus to Diocletian /J. Donald Hughes (University of Denver) ... 27
• 2. "People Said Extinction Was Not Possible": Two Thousand Years of Environmental Change in South China /Robert B. Marks (Witter College) ... 41
• 3. Precolonial Landesque Capital: A Global Perspective /Mats Widgren (Stockholm University) ... 61
• 4. Food, War, and Crisis: The Seventeenth-Century Swedish Empire /Janken Myrdal (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala) ... 79
• 5. The Role of Deforestation in Earth and World-System Integration /Michael Williams (University of Oxford) ... 101
• 6. Silver, Ecology, and the Origins of the Modern World, 1450 - 1640 /Jason W. Moore (University of California, Berkeley) ... 123
• 7. Trade, "Trinkets," and Environmental Change at the Edge of World-Systems: Political Ecology and the East African Ivory Trede /N. Thomas Håkansson (Lund University) ... 143
• 8. Steps to an Environmental History of the Western Llanos of Venezuela: A World-System Perspective /Rafael A. Gassón (Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Caracas) ... 163
• 9. The Extractive Economy: An Early Phase of the Globalization of Diet, and Its Environmental Consequences /Richard Wilk (Indiana University, Bloomington) ... 179
• 10. Yellow Jack and Geopolitics: Environment, Epidemics, and the Struggles for Empire in the American Tropics, 1640 - 1830 /J.R. McNeill (Georgetown University, Washington DC) ... 199

Part II. Ecology and Unequal Exchange: Unraveling Environmental Injustice in the Modern World

• 11. Marxism, Social Metabolism, and International Trade /Joan Martinez-Alier (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) ... 221
• 12. Natural Valued and the Physical Inevitability of Uneven Development under Capitalism /Stephen G. Bunker (University of Wisconsin) ... 239
• 13. Footprints in the Cotton Fields: The Industrial Revolution as Time-Space Appropriation and Environmental Load Displacement /Alf Hornborg (Lund University) ... 259
• 14. Uneven Ecological Exchange and Consumption-Based Environmental Impact: A Cross-National Investigation /Andrew K. Jorgenson (Washington State University, Pullman) and James Rice (New Mexico State University, Las Cruces) ... 273
• 15. Combining Social Metabolism and Input-Output Analysis to Account for Ecologically Unequal Trade /Helga Weisz (Klagenfurt University, Vienna) ... 289
• 16. Physical Trade Flows of Pollution-Internsive Products: Historical Trends in Europe and the World /Roldan Muradian (Tilburg University) and Stefan Giljum (Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Vienna) ... 307
• 17. Environmental Issues at the U.S.-Mexico Border and the Unequal Territorialization of Value /Josiah Heyman (University of Texas, El Paso) ... 327
• 18. Surrogate Money, Technology, and the Expansion of Savanna Soybeans in Brazil /William H. Fisher (College of William and Mary, Williamsburg) ... 345
• 19. Scale and Dependency in World-Systems: Local Societies in Convergent Evolution /Joseph A. Tainter (Arizona State University, Tempe) ... 361
• 20. The Ecology and the Economy: What Is Rational? /Immanuel Wallerstein (Yale University, New Haven) ... 379

• Index ... 391
• About the Contributors