Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land: An Environmental History of Africa, 1800–1990. By James C. McCann. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1999. Pp. iii, 224. $24.95.
本书综述了非洲环境变化的原因与后果，适合想了解非洲环境史研究新趋势的读者。
James McCann is the author of one of the most important agricultural and environmental histories of an African region (People of the Plow: An Agricultural History of Ethiopia, 1800–1990. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995). As such he is well placed to attempt a modern environmental history of the African continent. Overall, he has been successful. Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land is an extremely useful survey of recent trends in research into the causes and consequences of environmental change in Africa. As an introduction to the subject, McCann's book is probably unrivaled.