The average rating for An environmental history of the world based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.
Review # 1 was written on 2019-01-26 00:00:00 Michael Sarosiak I have never before added books that I’m reading for university in Goodreads, but I realized that they’re just like any other non fiction - I just have an exam in the end. And as they take up a lot of my reading time it’s only fair that they help with my reading goals. An Environmental History of the World takes on quite a challenge: to summarize the history of human-environment interactions. But I think that Hughes does a really great job! Each chapter covers a certain time period and starts with an introduction that goes through the main points. Then there are three case studies, almost all of which Hughes has studied himself. I felt like everything can be easily understood even without much of a background knowledge in biology or history. With a book like this it might be needless to say, but I did learn a lot. And this really fits into my environmental sciences studies! |
Review # 2 was written on 2012-12-02 00:00:00 Claudio Varnerin 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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