John F Richards

John Richards was Professor of History at Duke University and editor of "Land, Property and the Environment" (2001). He was also coeditor of "World Deforestation in the Twentieth Century" (1988) and "Global Deforestation and the Nineteenth-Century World Economy" (1983). He died in 2007.John McNeill is professor of history at Georgetown University and author of several books on world and environmental history, most recently "Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1640-1914" ...See more

John Richards was Professor of History at Duke University and editor of "Land, Property and the Environment" (2001). He was also coeditor of "World Deforestation in the Twentieth Century" (1988) and "Global Deforestation and the Nineteenth-Century World Economy" (1983). He died in 2007.John McNeill is professor of history at Georgetown University and author of several books on world and environmental history, most recently "Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1640-1914" (2010). See less