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| Acknowledgments | ||
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| 1 | Introduction: history and ecology | 1 |
| Environmental history | 4 | |
| The community of life | 5 | |
| Community ecology and history | 6 | |
| Ecological process | 7 | |
| 2 | Primal harmony | 12 |
| The Serengeti: kinship of humans with other forms of life | 14 | |
| Kakadu, Australia: the primal tradition | 19 | |
| Hopi, Arizona: agriculture in the spirit of the land | 22 | |
| 3 | The great divorce of culture and nature | 30 |
| The Uruk Wall: Gilgamesh and urban origins | 33 | |
| The Nile Valley: ancient Egypt and sustainability | 38 | |
| Tikal: the collapse of classic Maya culture | 42 | |
| 4 | Ideas and impacts | 52 |
| Athens: mind and practice | 59 | |
| Xian: Chinese environmental problems and solutions | 66 | |
| Rome: environmental reasons for the decline and fall | 73 | |
| 5 | The Middle Ages | 83 |
| Florence and the European scene: the barriers to growth | 86 | |
| Tahiti, Hawai'i, New Zealand: Polynesian impacts on island ecosystems | 93 | |
| Cuzco: conservation in the empire of the Incas | 99 | |
| 6 | The transformation of the biosphere | 109 |
| Tenochitlan: the European biotic invasion | 113 | |
| London: city, country, and empire in the Industrial Age | 119 | |
| The Galapagos Islands: Darwin's vision of evolution | 127 | |
| 7 | Exploitation and conservation | 141 |
| The Western Ghats: tradition and change | 148 | |
| Grand Canyon: preservation or enjoyment? | 155 | |
| Aswan: the dams and their effects | 162 | |
| 8 | Modern environmental problems | 174 |
| Bali: a green revolution? | 182 | |
| Willamette National Forest: now that the big trees are down | 188 | |
| Bryansk: the aftermath of Chernobyl | 193 | |
| 9 | Present and future | 206 |
| Denver: a sense of place | 213 | |
| Amazon: the threats to biodiversity | 217 | |
| Nairobi and the world: the United Nations Environment Program | 224 | |
| 10 | A general conclusion | 238 |
| Bibliographical essay: writing on global environmental history | 242 | |
| Index | 249 |
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Jessica El
reviewed An Environmental History of the World: Humankinds's Changing Role in the Community of Life on December 02, 2012
An Environmental History of the World
Hughes does a solid job of compressing the long environmental history down into a readable format that lacks ethnocentrism and presents its points clearly. Probably the best overall book I read for my environmental history class.
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