Description: Explores historical interactions between economic development and the physical environment in four regions of the developing world: Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia.
Brief description: Gareth Austin is Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge, UK, and until recently was a professor in the Department of International History at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland. He has numerous publications on Ghanaian, African, comparative and global economic history.
Review Quotes: "Austin's volume shows the benefit of a looser, non-stratigraphical dating. By avoiding any strict periodization of the Anthropocene, Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene allows for rich discussions of the multiple entanglements of the histories of the environment and the economy." --Journal of World History