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A new green history of the world : the environment and the collapse of great civilizations / Clive Ponting.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2007Edition: Revised editionDescription: x, 452 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780143038986
  • 0143038982
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.2 22
LOC classification:
  • GF75 .P66 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
The lessons of Easter Island -- The foundations of history -- Ninety-nine per cent of human history -- The first great transition -- Destruction and survival -- The long struggle -- Ways of thought -- The rape of the world -- The foundations of inequality -- Disease and death -- The weight of numbers -- The second great transition -- The rise of the city -- Creating the affluent society -- Polluting the world -- The threat to global systems -- The shadow of the past.

Revised edition of: A green history of the world. 1991.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [424]-434) and index.

The lessons of Easter Island -- The foundations of history -- Ninety-nine per cent of human history -- The first great transition -- Destruction and survival -- The long struggle -- Ways of thought -- The rape of the world -- The foundations of inequality -- Disease and death -- The weight of numbers -- The second great transition -- The rise of the city -- Creating the affluent society -- Polluting the world -- The threat to global systems -- The shadow of the past.

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