Readings

E.A. Wrigley, Continuity, Chance and Change (1988), chaps 2,3

P.H.H.Vries, ‘Are Coal and Colonies Really Crucial? Kenneth Pomeranz and the Great Divergence’, Journal of World History, 12/2 (2001), pp. 408-446.

Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel

Jared Diamond, Collapse. How Societies Choose to Fair or Survive (2005), chaps: prologue, 3, 7-9, 10-12.

Mark Elvin, The Retreat of the Elephants. An Environmental History of China (2004), chaps 1, 2, 7-9, 11-12.

Joachim Radkau, Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment (Cambridge, 2007).

John F. Richards, The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World (Berkeley, 2003).

J. R. McNeill, Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (New York, 2001).

Karel Davids, ‘River Control and the evolution of knowledge: a comparison between regions in China and Europe’, c. 1400- 1850’, Journal of Global History, 1/1 (2006), pp. 59-80.

Paolo Malanima, ‘Energy crisis and growth 1650-1850: the European deviation in a comparative perspective’, Journal of Global History, 1/1 (2006), pp. 101-122.

Peter Purdue, China Marches West. The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Harvard, 2005), chaps 1, 15, 16.