Scott Kaufman - The Environment and International History

New Approaches to International History

Series Editor: Thomas Zeiler, Professor of American Diplomatic History, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Series Editorial Board:

Anthony Adamthwaite, University of California at Berkeley (USA)

Kathleen Burk, University College London (UK)

Louis Clerc, University of Turku (Finland)

Petra Goedde, Temple University (USA)

Francine McKenzie, University of Western Ontario (Canada)

Lien-Hang Nguyen, University of Kentucky (USA)

Jason Parker, Texas A&M University (USA)

Glenda Sluga, University of Sydney (Australia)

New Approaches to International History covers international history during the modern period and across the globe. The series incorporates new developments in the field, such as the cultural turn and transnationalism, as well as the classical high politics of state-centric policymaking and diplomatic relations. Written with upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students in mind, texts in the series provide an accessible overview of international diplomatic and transnational issues, events, and actors.

Published:

Decolonization and the Cold War , edited by Leslie James and Elisabeth Leake (2015)

Cold War Summits, Chris Tudda (2015)

The United Nations in International History , Amy Sayward (2017)

Latin American Nationalism , James F. Siekmeier (2017)

The History of United States Cultural Diplomacy , Michael L. Krenn (2017)

International Cooperation in the Early Twentieth Century , Daniel Gorman (2017)

Women and Gender in International History , Karen Garner (2018)

International Development , Corinna Unger (2018)

The Environment and International History , Scott Kaufman (2018)

Forthcoming:

The International LGBT Rights Movement , Laura Belmonte

Scandinavia and the Great Powers in the First World War , Michael Jonas

Canada and the World since 1867 , Asa McKercher

Reconstructing the Postwar World , Francine McKenzie

The History of Oil Diplomacy , Christopher R. W. Dietrich

The Nineteenth Century World , Maartje Abbenhuis and Gordon Morrell

Global War, Global Catastrophe , Maartje Abbenhuis and Ismee Tames

Series Editor Preface

New Approaches to International History takes the entire world as its stage for exploring the history of diplomacy, broadly conceived theoretically and thematically, and writ large across the span of the globe, during the modern period. This series goes beyond the single goal of explaining encounters in the world. Our aspiration is that these books provide both an introduction for researchers new to a topic and supplemental and essential reading in classrooms. Thus, New Approaches serves a dual purpose that is unique from other large-scale treatments of international history; it applies to scholarly agendas and pedagogy. In addition, it does so against the backdrop of a century of enormous change, conflict, and progress that informed global history but also continues to reflect on our own times.

The series offers the old and new diplomatic history to address a range of topics that shaped the twentieth century. Engaging in international history (including but not especially focusing on global or world history), these books will appeal to a range of scholars and teachers situated in the humanities and social sciences, including those in history, international relations, cultural studies, politics, and economics. We have in mind scholars, both novice and veteran, who require an entre into a topic, trend, or technique that can benefit their own research or education into a new field of study by crossing boundaries in a variety of ways.

By its broad and inclusive coverage, New Approaches to International History is also unique because it makes accessible to students current research, methodology, and themes. Incorporating cutting-edge scholarship that reflects trends in international history, as well as addressing the classical high politics of state-centric policymaking and diplomatic relations, these books are designed to bring alive the myriad of approaches for digestion by advanced undergraduates and graduate students. In preparation for the New Approaches series, Bloomsbury surveyed courses and faculty around the world to gage interest and reveal core themes of relevance for their classroom use. The polling yielded a host of topics, from war and peace to the environment; from empire to economic integration; and from migration to nuclear arms. The effort proved that there is a much-needed place for studies that connect scholars and students alike to international history, and books that are especially relevant to the teaching missions of faculty around the world.

We hope readers find this series to be appealing, challenging, and thought-provoking. Whether the history is viewed through older or newer lenses, New Approaches to International History allows students to peer into the modern periods complex relations among nations, people, and events to draw their own conclusions about the tumultuous, interconnected past.

Thomas Zeiler, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

To My Sister and Brother-in-Law

Heather Kaufman and Steve Moore

The Environment and International History

Scott Kaufman

This book originated from an offer by Tom Zeiler, a professor of history at the University of Colorado, to participate in a series of books he was editing for Bloomsbury Press. Having done some work related to US environmental history, I regarded a manuscript on international environmental diplomacy as a natural extension of my earlier research. I therefore requested and received the opportunity to write this work.

Because The Environment and International History is a synthesis of secondary materials, I relied heavily on the holdings of the Rogers Library at Francis Marion University as well as interlibrary loan. The state of South Carolinas PASCAL systeman intrastate catalog of college and university librarieswas immensely helpful, as was Steve Sims, the head of Access Services at Rogers Library, whom I probably overworked ordering items for me from interlibrary loan.

Francis Marion University (FMU) has been ranked by the Chronicle of Higher Education as one of the best academic institutions at which to work in the United States, and it has been a pleasure to call FMU home. The administration, from President L. Fred Carter down, has been very supportive of my research, as have my colleagues in the Department of History. I cannot express enough my appreciation to them.