J. Donald Hughes

An Environmental History of the World (eBook, PDF)

Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an overview of human history in relationship to the natural environment, from origins to the present, with case studies of different societies in each period

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134017829
• Artikelnr.: 43070001

Autorenporträt

J. Donald Hughes is John Evans Distinguished Professor of History, University of Denver. Author of What is Environmental History? (Polity, 2006), The Mediterranean: An Environmental History (ABC-CLIO, 2005), and Pan's Travail: Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans (Johns Hopkins, 1994), he is a founding member of the American and European Societies for Environmental History and past editor of Environmental History

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: History and Ecology 2. Primal Harmony 3. The Great Divorce
of Culture and Nature 4. Ideas and Impacts 5. The Middle Ages 6. The
Transformation of the Biosphere 7. Exploitation and Conservation 8. Modern
Environmental Problems 9. Present and Future 10. Conclusion