Humans versus nature : a global environmental history

1. Verfasser: Headrick, Daniel R. , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020].
Umfang/Format: 604 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • The foragers
  • Farmers and herders
  • Early civilizations
  • Eurasia in the classical age
  • Medieval Eurasia and Africa
  • The invasion of America
  • The transformation of the old world
  • The transition to an industrial world
  • The West and the non-West in the nineteenth century
  • War and developmentalism in the twentieth century
  • Peace and consumerism in the twentieth century
  • Climate change and climate wars
  • Plundering the oceans
  • Extinctions and survivals
  • Environmentalism.