Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series)

"Refreshingly unpolemical and at times even witty, McNeill's book brims with carefully sifted statistics and brilliant details."―Washington Post Book World

The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his startling new book, J. R. McNeill gives us our first general account of what may prove to be the most significant dimension of the twentieth century: its environmental history. To a degree unprecedented in human history, we have refashioned the earth's air, water, and soil, and the biosphere of which we are a part. Based on exhaustive research, McNeill's story―a compelling blend of anecdotes, data, and shrewd analysis―never preaches: it is our definitive account. This is a volume in The Global Century Series (general editor, Paul Kennedy). 40 b/w photographs, 15 maps

• Environmentalism: A Global History
• The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future
• Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism (The Contemporary Middle East)
• The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World (New Press People's History)
• Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood
• The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991
• An Environmental History of Latin America (New Approaches to the Americas)
• The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century (World Social Change)
• The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (Hill and Wang Critical Issues)
• Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History)