Environmental History: As If Nature Existed

by Mahesh Rangarajan, Jose Augusto Padua, John Robert McNeill

This volume brings to the reader the history of the alteration of environment by human action, and the reciprocal influence of the environment upon human history. The collection traces the long history of geographical shifts in human occupation, the difficult path to industrialization, the forced displacements and destruction of forests and marshes, the state-led industrialization in response to poverty, and the destruction of forests due to European...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198064489
• ISBN13: 9780198064480
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.7"