Environments and Historical ChangePaul Slack Oxford University Press, 1999 - 196 pages 'All of the contributions present interesting views of environmental issues with a temporal dimension, and make for stimulating reading' -HISTORY'Use this book to change your mind and initiate some new adventures to help interpret where we are and from where we have come' -International Journal of Environmental StudiesThis book explores the shifting relationship between people and their environment by focusing on the relationship between the environmental and historical change. It examines questions such as; how has climate fluctuated and why? how have people exploited natural and defined their local place in it?; and why have boundaries taken the shapes they have? |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Climate and History in the Old and New Worlds | 33 |
Putting Abrupt Environmental Change back into Human | 46 |
Copyright | |
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Aboriginal Adamson African agriculture ancient archaeological Arnhem Land atmosphere Australia Baillie Black Death boundaries Britain British caer Cambridge century chronologies clan climate change coastal context cultural Daktari Danish dates Dendrochronology Desert desiccation downturn dunes economic energy England English English Local History environment environmental change Europe European evidence example film forest gas hydrate George Adamson Glacial Maximum global Grimsby growth Haveloc hedges Holocene human hunter-gatherer hunting ice-core impact increasing involved Joy Adamson king lake landscape Last Glacial Maximum latitude Lincolnshire Lindsey lion London medieval metres myth nature North northern ocean outgassing Oxford past period Petit-Maire Phythian-Adams Pleistocene population production Quaternary Rackham radiocarbon recent record region relationship revolution Sahara settlement social society solar species territory tion Towednack tree-ring trees Trewey tropical tsunami University Press vegetation Western wild animals wildlife witch wood Wrigley Yolngu Zennor
References to this book
The Recurring Dark Ages: Ecological Stress, Climate Changes, and System ... Sing C. Chew Limited preview - 2007 |