The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History - Softcover

Penna, Anthony N.

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ISBN 10: 1405187719 ISBN 13: 9781405187718

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), 2009

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"The Human Footprint adds to the growing literature combining environmental with world history, both of which are relatively recent and vibrant subfields of history ... His topical approach does result in an interesting, readable, and accessible set of histories that addresses issues of concern not just to world and environmental historian, but to geologists and evolutionary biologists as well, making it quite suitable for use in a range of college and university courses." (Technology and Culture, 1 January 2011) "I highly recommend this book as one that would work extremely well in an environmental history offering or as a supplementary work in any World survey." (World History Association, 1 October 2010) "An increasing number of scholar-teachers are now able to teach global survey courses, giving students an improved context for heading into a future of daunting climate change. None of the recent survey volumes is better tailored for this audience (or for a wider and equally anxious public) than Penna's Human Footprint, the fruit of two decades of teaching this subject at Northeastern University...One virtue of Penna's approach is its integration of hard sciences (archeology, climatology, epidemiology, etc.) with social and historical concepts...Penna makes clear how natural settings shaped early human cultures; this enables readers then to watch the long human effort to turn the tables on Nature, reshaping it to this species' innovative priorities." (Environmental History, 2011)

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The Human Footprint is a global, thematic, and multi-disciplinary history of the planet, from its earliest origins to its current condition. Avoiding conventional narratives and using the latest research in a diverse range of fields, Penna brings harmony to human history and ecology and provides a fresh, much-needed narrative of world history. Provides a comprehensive, global look at the history of the earth from the Paleolithic to the present era Uses a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on the most recent research in geology, climatology, evolutionary biology, archaeology, anthropology, history, demography and the social and physical sciences Each chapter expands on a single theme, including human evolution, the invention of agriculture and its global impact, population growth, urbanization, manufacturing, consumption, industrialization, and energy use

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• Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1405187719
• ISBN 13: 9781405187718
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 376