Environments and Historical Change The Linacre Lectures 1998

Name: Environments and Historical Change The Linacre Lectures 1998
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ISBN: 9780198233886

ISBN-10: 0198233884

ISBN-13: 9780198233886

Edition: 1999

Authors: Paul Slack

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Present anxieties about global warming and threats to biodiversity leave no doubts that environmental changes impact upon humans. Perceptions of the environment change as people try to define and shape 'nature' in different ways. The book explores the relationship between environmental change and society from the last Ice Age to the present. The book examines the environmental impact of fluctuations in climate and the demand for energy, and the patters which human societies have imposed on their surroundings, from boundaries to the cultural projections of legends and film. Together they show how insights from the disciplines of geography and geography, history and anthropology, can throw…

Book details

List price: $180.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/3/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 206
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Contributors


Introduction


References



The Ice Age in the Tropics and Its Human Implications


Introduction THE EARLY HISTORY


Conclusion


References



Climate and History in the Old and New Worlds


References



Putting Abrupt Environmental Change Back into Human History


Introduction


Conclusion


References



Meeting Human Energy Needs: Constraints, Opportunities, and Effects



Meeting Human Energy Needs: Constraints, Opportunities, and Effects


References



Boundaries and Country Planning: Ancient and Modern


References


Introduction



Environments and Identities: Landscape as Cultural Projection in the English Provincial Past



The Renaturing of African Animals: Film and Literature in the 1950s and 1960s


References



From Hunting to Mining: The History of Human Environmental Relations in Eastern Arnhem Land


Introduction


References


Conclusion


Index