10,000 BC to AD 2000
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Köp båda 2 för 1929 krThis is a history of the environment of England, Wales and Scotland, and of the interactions of people, place and nature since the last ice sheet withdrew some ten thousand years ago. It is concerned with the changing cultures (in the full anthrop...
Ian G Simmons retired in 2001 from his position as Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Durham. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and the author of many books including The Ecology of Natural Resources(Arnold 1973), Environmental History: An Introduction (Blackwell 1994), Changing the Face of the Earth (second edn, Blackwell 1996), and Humanity and Environment (Longman 1997). He received the Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1998.
Preface; Prologue - Mustering the Marks; Chapter 1 - Resonances; Chapter 2 - The Gatherer-hunters and their World; Chapter 3 - Pre-industrial Agriculture; Chapter 4 - An industrious world; Chapter 5 - A Post-industrial Era?; Chapter 6 - Emerging themes; Further Reading; Glossary