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His work has been recognized with the Aldo Leopold Award for best article in Environmental History, multiple NEH fellowships, and election to the Board of Directors of the Association for East Asian Environmental History. He is the author of Diablo: Demonsbane, the e-book that launched the entire Blizzard fiction line back in 2000, as well as The EverQuest Companion, the Garwulf's Corner pop culture columns, and he is the co-author of The Eternity Quartet with Ed Greenwood.
As a non-fiction author and historian he is the co-author of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora: Ancient Greek and Roman Humour, with R.
Drew Griffith, as well as the translator of Grandmaison's Training of the Infantry for Offensive Combat, the French doctrine of 1913, and Moltke the Younger's Memories, Letters and Documents.
Put another way, he wears many hats.
The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century
Marks considers the environmental and economic state of the world by the year 1400.
He is the author of Diablo: Demonsbane, the e-book that launched the entire Blizzard fiction line back in 2000, as well as The EverQuest Companion, the Garwulf's Corner pop culture columns, and he is the co-author of The Eternity Quartet with Ed Greenwood.
As a non-fiction author and historian he is the co-author of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora: Ancient Greek and Roman Humour, with R.
Drew Griffith, as well as the translator of Grandmaison's Training of the Infantry for Offensive Combat, the French doctrine of 1913, and Moltke the Younger's Memories, Letters and Documents.
Put another way, he wears many hats. Although the world has many more people today, 70% of them live on the same 7% of land or 4.25 million square miles as their ancestors in 1400.
The settlements also gave rise to artisans, who made and maintained the items necessary for society and culture, and to trade between cities and tribes.
Even by 1400, the world’s largest urban populations amounted to only 1% of the global population.
He lives in the area of Kingston, Ontario, with his wife and children....more
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Where Environmental Forces Meet Human Choices
Historian Robert B. Marks traces the deep connections between nature and society across continents and centuries.
One is a Stetson, and the other a Tilly. One is a Stetson, and the other a Tilly. He lives inRobert B. Marks is an author, editor, researcher, and publisher. Today, the human population exceeds eight billion, but in 1400 it was only 380 million. His scholarship spans China's environmental transformation, the origins of the modern world economy, and the 10,000-year history of California's Mono Lake Basin—revealing how human actions and natural forces shape the places we inhabit.
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Award-Winning Historian & Author
Robert B.
Marks is Professor Emeritus of History and Environmental Studies at Whittier College, where he taught for 41 years before retiring in 2019. The narrative begins with Indigenous peoples, follows the mid-nineteenth-century arrival of Euro-American settlers and the dispossession of the Kootzaduka'a people, and traces how control over water drove hydroelectric development, land monopolization, and the 1933 sale of water rights to Los Angeles.
Almost all people lived in rural areas, and human settlements covered 7% of the land on Earth. The second largest city was Vijayanagar in southern India, and the third was Cairo in Egypt.
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Robert B.
Marks is an author, editor, researcher, and publisher. Nine of the world’s largest cities were in China, and the biggest was Nanjing. In addition, Marks identifies 15 advanced civilizations. In 2022, colleagues from around the world honored his foundational role in establishing the field of Chinese environmental history.
Notable Awards
“Tribute to Robert Marks,” John K.
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, 2022
Aldo Leopold Prize for the best article in Environmental History, 1997
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellow, 1983, 1990, 2000-01, 2007-08
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Coming May 2026: A New Environmental History of the Mono Lake Basin
Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin: Nature and History over the Last 10,000 Years
This book reveals how natural forces and human actions shaped the Mono Lake Basin in eastern California over 10,000 years.
These civilizations were the ultimate product of an “agricultural revolution” that began in modern-day Iraq when people transitioned from hunting-and-gathering to permanent agricultural settlements. The city's diversion of nearly all fresh water from the Basin triggered an ecological crisis by the 1970s, leading to the legal battles and restoration efforts that have, for now, preserved this ancient landscape.
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The settlements gave rise to social hierarchies, in which most of the population made food through agriculture and an elite of priests and rulers needed to explain and protect society.