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Humans Versus Nature
A Global Environmental History
Taschenbuch von Daniel R Headrick
Sprache: Englisch

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Humans versus Nature relates the history of the global environment from the Stone Age to the present, emphasizing the adversarial relations between human societies and the natural environment in all regions of the world and tracing the current environmental crisis to its roots in the deep past.
Humans versus Nature relates the history of the global environment from the Stone Age to the present, emphasizing the adversarial relations between human societies and the natural environment in all regions of the world and tracing the current environmental crisis to its roots in the deep past.
Über den Autor
Daniel R. Headrick is Professor of Social Science and History, emeritus, at Roosevelt University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century (OUP); The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism (OUP); The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851-1945 (OUP); When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700-1850 (OUP); Technology: A World History (OUP); and Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Acknowledgments

  • Introduction: Global Environmental History

  • Chapter 1 The Foragers

  • Chapter 2 Farmers and Herders

  • Chapter 3 Early Civilizations

  • Chapter 4 Eurasia in the Classical Age

  • Chapter 5 Medieval Eurasia and Africa

  • Chapter 6 The Invasion of America

  • Chapter 7 The Transformation of the Old World

  • Chapter 8 The Transition to an Industrial World

  • Chapter 9 The West and the Non-West in the Nineteenth Century

  • Chapter 10 War and Developmentalism in the Twentieth Century

  • Chapter 11 Peace and Consumerism in the Twentieth Century

  • Chapter 12 Climate Change and Climate Wars

  • Chapter 13 Plundering the Oceans

  • Chapter 14 Extinctions and Survivals

  • Chapter 15 Environmentalism

  • Epilogue One Past, Many Futures

  • Notes

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Umwelt
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Ökologie
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780190864729
ISBN-10: 0190864729
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Headrick, Daniel R
Hersteller: Sydney University Press
Maße: 231 x 150 x 38 mm
Von/Mit: Daniel R Headrick
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.01.2020
Gewicht: 0,896 kg
Artikel-ID: 120655479
Über den Autor
Daniel R. Headrick is Professor of Social Science and History, emeritus, at Roosevelt University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century (OUP); The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism (OUP); The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851-1945 (OUP); When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700-1850 (OUP); Technology: A World History (OUP); and Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Acknowledgments

  • Introduction: Global Environmental History

  • Chapter 1 The Foragers

  • Chapter 2 Farmers and Herders

  • Chapter 3 Early Civilizations

  • Chapter 4 Eurasia in the Classical Age

  • Chapter 5 Medieval Eurasia and Africa

  • Chapter 6 The Invasion of America

  • Chapter 7 The Transformation of the Old World

  • Chapter 8 The Transition to an Industrial World

  • Chapter 9 The West and the Non-West in the Nineteenth Century

  • Chapter 10 War and Developmentalism in the Twentieth Century

  • Chapter 11 Peace and Consumerism in the Twentieth Century

  • Chapter 12 Climate Change and Climate Wars

  • Chapter 13 Plundering the Oceans

  • Chapter 14 Extinctions and Survivals

  • Chapter 15 Environmentalism

  • Epilogue One Past, Many Futures

  • Notes

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Umwelt
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Ökologie
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780190864729
ISBN-10: 0190864729
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Headrick, Daniel R
Hersteller: Sydney University Press
Maße: 231 x 150 x 38 mm
Von/Mit: Daniel R Headrick
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.01.2020
Gewicht: 0,896 kg
Artikel-ID: 120655479
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