"The Tale of Tea is the saga of globalisation. Tea gave birth to paper money, the Opium Wars and Hong Kong, triggered the Anglo-Dutch wars and the American war of independence, shaped the economies and military history of Táng and Sòng China and moulded Chinese art and culture. Whilst black...

"Global history is predicated on connections and exchange: how connections between far-flung people, places, and objects are forged through a variety of exchanges. As world history has matured as a field, its practitioners have found the movement of commodities between peoples, places, and time...

"Expands the understanding of large-scale hunting methods beyond the customary role of subsistence and survival to include the social and political realms where large-scale hunting adaptations evolved, primarily from the Americas and spanning from the Folsom Period on the Great Plains to the...

Ellis ist Professor für Geologie und Umweltsysteme an der University of Maryland und Mitglied einer Kommission, die die Einführung des Begriffs Anthropozän als geologisches Erdzeitalter untersucht hat. Der Begriff geht u.a. zurück auf den Nobelpreisträger P.J. Crutzen: "Das Anthropozän"....