A New Green History Of The World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations

ISBN-13: 9780099516682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 464 str.

Clive Ponting

Opis

Studies the relationship between the environment and human history. This book examines world civilizations from Sumeria to ancient Egypt, from Easter Island to the Roman Empire and it argues that human beings have repeatedly built societies that have grown and prospered by exploiting the Earth's resources.

Recenzje

If there is a single book on the subject to engage the enthusiast, silence the cynic and enlighten the ignoramus, this is it Observer

O autorze

Clive Ponting was until recently Reader in Politics and International Relations at the University of Wales, Swansea. Available in Pimlico are his most recent books: A New Green History Of The World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations; Gunpowder: From the Alchemists of China to the Battlefields of Europe; The Pimlico History of the Twentieth Century; World History: A New Perspective; Thirteen Days: The Road to the First World War; and The Crimean War. He recently took early retirement and now lives on a small Greek island where he is creating a Mediterranean garden and cultivating olives.