Understanding the Cultural Landscape

Name: Understanding the Cultural Landscape
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ISBN: 9781593851194

ISBN-10: 1593851197

ISBN-13: 9781593851194

Edition: 2005

Authors: Bret Wallach

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This compelling text offers a fresh perspective on how the natural world has been imagined, built on, and transformed by human beings throughout history and around the globe.

Book details

List price: $59.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Publication date: 1/21/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 406
Size: 6.93" wide x 9.84" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English

Bret Wallach teaches geography at the University of Oklahoma. A MacArthur Fellow, he has previously published At Odds with Progress: Conservation and Americans and Losing Asia: Modernization and the Culture of Development. He is presently working on a book about the rural landscapes of Eurasia.




Introduction



Anthropological Foundations



Human Evolution, Diffusion, and Culture



Foragers



Domestication



The Diffusion and Early Development of Agriculture



The Emergence of Civilization



Historical Developments



China



India



A Technological Civilization



Globalization



Livelihoods Today



Resource Production



Manufacturing



Services



Transportation and Communication



Social and Environmental Consequences



Romantic Responses



Political Reactions



Conservation, Resources, and Population



Pollution, Biodiversity, and Climate Change



Reading Landscapes



American Cities



Rural America



Cities Abroad



Countrysides Abroad