Advances in historical ecology /
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| Imprint: | New York : Columbia University Press, c1998. |
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| Description: | xvi, 429 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The historical ecology series Historical ecology series. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3558181 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- References
- Preface
- Introduction
- References
- Note
- Part 1. Human and Material Factors in Historical Ecology
- Chapter 1. Historical Ecology: Premises and Postulates
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 2. Ecological History and Historical Ecology: Diachronic Modeling versus Historical Explanation
- References
- Chapter 3. A Historical-Ecological Perspective on Epidemic Disease
- References
- Chapter 4. Forged in Fire: History, Land, and Anthropogenic Fire
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 5. Diachronic Ecotones and Anthropogenic Landscapes in Amazonia: Contesting the Consciousness of Conservation
- References
- Notes
- Chapter 6. Metaphor and Metamorphism: Some Thoughts on Environmental Metahistory
- References
- Part 2. Regional Research and Landscape Analyses in Historical Ecology
- Chapter 7. The Rat That Ate Louisiana: Aspects of Historical Ecology in the Mississippi River Delta
- References
- Chapter 8. Cultural, Human, and Historical Ecology in the Great Basin: Fifty Years of Ideas about Ten Thousand Years of Prehistory
- References
- Chapter 9. Andent and Modern Hunter-Gatherers of Lowland South America: an Evolutionary Problem
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 10. Potential versus Actual Vegetation: Human Behavior in a Landscape Medium
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 11. Domestication as a Historical and Symbolic Process: Wild Gardens and Cultivated Forests in the Ecuadorian Amazon
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 12. Independent Yet Interdependent "Isode": the Historical Ecology of Traditional Piaroa Settlement Pattern
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 13. Whatever Happened to the Stone Age? Steel Tools and Yanomami Historical Ecology
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 14. Missionary Activity and Indian Labor in the Upper Rio Negro of Brazil, 1680-1980: a Historical-Ecological Approach
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 15. Cultural Persistence and Environmental Change: the Otomí of the Valle del Mezquital, Mexico
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 16. The Great Cow Explosion in Rajasthan
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 17. The Historical Ecology of Thailand: Increasing Thresholds of Human Environmental Impact from Prehistory to the Present
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Epilogue
- References
- Notes on the Cntribut0rs
- Index
