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<br> We often make our judgments on our biological future as looming and/or glowing in accordance with our assessment of choices we made on such momentous matters in the past. I advise that we should start that assessment by reading Nation-States and the Global Environment. --Alfred W. Crosby, author of Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy<br><p><br> This valuable collection is the most up-to-date and wide-ranging set of essays available on modern environmental history in global context. It tackles one of the most important tensions facing the contemporary world: the cross-national nature of key environmental problems, yet the centrality of nation states to the solution of these problems. The authors provide essential historical depth to current policy discussions and public debate on environmental issues, and pioneering contributions to global and transnational history. --Ian Tyrrell, University of New South Wales <br><p><br>

A commendable compilation. Suitable for use in seminars in either environmental or diplomatic history. --CHOICE We often make our judgments on our biological future as looming and/or glowing in accordance with our assessment of choices we made on such momentous matters in the past. I advise that we should start that assessment by reading Nation-States and the Global Environment. --Alfred W. Crosby, author of Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy This valuable collection is the most up-to-date and wide-ranging set of essays available on modern environmental history in global context. It tackles one of the most important tensions facing the contemporary world: the cross-national nature of key environmental problems, yet the centrality of nation states to the solution of these problems. The authors provide essential historical depth to current policy discussions and public debate on environmental issues, and pioneering contributions to global and transnational history. --Ian Tyrrell, University of New South Wales

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Erika Marie Bsumek is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Indian-Made: Navajo Culture in the Marketplace, 1868-1940. David Kinkela is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York Fredonia and the author of DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide that Changed the World. Mark Atwood Lawrence is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam and The Vietnam War: A Concise International History.

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