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World without end : environmental disaster and the collapse of empires /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whyte, Ian (Ian D.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, ©2008.
Subjects:
Human ecology > History.
Global environmental change > Social aspects > History.
Environmental disasters > Social aspects > History.
Changement global (Environnement) > Aspect social > Histoire.
Catastrophes écologiques > Aspect social > Histoire.
Global environmental change > Social aspects.
Human ecology.
History.
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Table of contents
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Table of Contents:
  • Environmental change and human response in perspective : the last 12,000 years
  • Environmental systems and processes
  • Hunters and hunter-gatherers
  • Early agricultural societies
  • Early civilisations and empires
  • Medieval and early modern societies
  • Modern developed societies
  • The modern less developed world
  • Postscript: Environmental change in the future.