Alkuteos: The Human Web. A Birds'eye View of World History
suom. Natasha Vilokkinen
Historioitsijat J.R. ja William McNeill tarkastelevat uusimmassa teoksessaan sivilisaatioiden kehitystä ja historiallista globalisaatiota. Ihmisten keskinäinen vuorovaikutus, tavar[...]
This book describes and analyses the environmental history of the mountain areas of the Mediterranean world, focusing on Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Morocco. The author examines the land and its people and concludes that great changes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries created the often[...]
"The Companion to Global Environmental History" offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past developments, current controversies, and future developments for specialists and newcomers alike.Combin[...]
Global Environmental History introduces this rapidly developing field through a broad and thought-provoking range of expert contributions. Environmental history is a subject especially suited to global and transnational approaches and, over the course of the present generation, an increasing number [...]
The World Hunt focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and world economy. A comprehensive digest of the massive expansion of the European quest for animal products, this book explores the fur trade in North America and Russia, cod fishing in th[...]