Environmental history : a concise introduction /

Environmental history : a concise introduction /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Simmons, I. G. (Ian Gordon), 1937-
Imprint:	Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell, 1993.
Description:	xvi, 206 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	New perspectives on the past New perspectives on the past (Basil Blackwell Publisher)
Subject:	Human beings -- Influence on nature -- History. Human beings -- Influence of environment -- History. Human ecology -- History Human beings -- Effect of environment on. Human ecology. Nature -- Effect of human beings on. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1502368

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ISBN:	1557864454 (acid-free paper) 1557864462 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-194) and index.

Table of Contents:

1. 'Not the sweet home that it looks': A History of the World in Only Five Chapters
2. 'Might-be maps': The Ecology of the Wild and the Tame
3. 'A culture is no better than its woods': The Humanization of the Wilderness
4. 'Not dream of islands': An Environmental History of Two Political Units
5. Our good landscapes be but lies': Culture, Time and Environment.