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In the past decade or so, ‘environment’ has been picked up as a theme at many conferences of academic societies including the Socio-Economic History Society. It can be said that attempts have already been made to rewrite the history from the viewpoint of the interaction between humans and the environment, reconsidering the conventional historiography which has dealt only with human societies.
The review that is translated here, and that originally appeared in Shakai Keizai Shigaku, 79(2) (August 2013), pp. 149–151, was of the Japanese-language version of the book. The page numbers have been altered so that they refer to the English original, and some other minor adjustments have been made.
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Mizuno, S. (2015). Review of J. R. McNeill, Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (20 Seiki Kankyō Shi. Translated by Masatomo Umitsu and Tsunetoshi Mizoguchi). In: Sugiyama, S. (eds) Economic History of Energy and Environment. Monograph Series of the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55507-0_8
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