The Environment and World History

List of Contributors

michael adas is the Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History at Rutgers University. His most recent book is Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America’s Civilizing Mission (Cambridge, MA: Harvard/Belknap Press, 2006). william beinart is Professor of Race Relations at the University of Oxford and is the authorof TheRiseofConservationinSouthAfrica(Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,2003). edmund burke iii is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is the author of The Ethnographic State: France, Islam and Morocco, 1890–1925 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming). mark cioc is a Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is the author of The Rhine: An Eco-biography (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002). He is currently the editor of Environmental History. kenneth pomeranz is Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), among other works. mahesh rangarajan is Visiting Professor of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, and a political commentator. He is the author of India’s Wildlife History: An Introduction (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2003). C O N T R I B U T O R S 337 john f. richards was Professor of History at Duke University and the author of The Unending Frontier: Environmental History of the Early Modern World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003) and other books and articles. lise sedrez is Professor of Latin American History at the California State University at Long Beach. She is the editor of the Online Bibliography on Latin American Environmental History (www.csulb.edu/projects/laeh). douglas r. weiner is Professor of History at the University of Arizona, past president of the American Society for Environmental History, and the author of A Little Corner of Freedom: Russian Nature Protection from Stalin to Gorbachev (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). 338 . c o n t r i b u t o r s ...