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Humans versus Nature
By Headrick
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Description
Humans versus Nature tells a history of the global environment from the Stone Age to the present, emphasizing the adversarial relationship between the human and natural worlds. Nature is cast as an active protagonist, rather than a mere backdrop or victim of human malfeasance. Daniel R. Headrick shows how environmental changes--epidemics, climate shocks, and volcanic eruptions--have molded human societies and cultures, sometimes overwhelming them. At the same time, he traces the history of anthropogenic changes in the environment--species extinctions, global warming, deforestation, and resource depletion--back to the age of hunters and gatherers and the first farmers and herders. He shows how human interventions such as irrigation systems, over-fishing, and the Industrial Revolution have in turn harmed the very societies that initiated them.
Throughout, Headrick examines how human-driven environmental changes are interwoven with larger global systems, dramatically reshaping the complex relationship between people and the natural world. In doing so, he roots the current environmental crisis in the deep past.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
616
Release Date:
2020-01-02
Publication Date:
2013-03-28
Publisher:
ACADEMIC
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0190864710
ISBN13:
9780190864712
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Weight:
1080 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
37 cm
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