Soils and Societies: Perspectives from Environmental History - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1874267529 ISBN 13: 9781874267522

Verlag: White Horse Press, 2006

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"A delight for the soil aficionado." --"Nature"

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This multi-authored volume shows some of the ways in which soils, their properties and their histories, have influenced human affairs. The complex interrelations between societies in different parts of the world and the soils they relied on are examined from the perspectives of geomorphology, archaeology, pedology and history. The geographical spread includes Meso-America,, Africa, Europe, Australia, India and Easter Island. Few things are more important to human survival than the fertility of the soils from which so much of our food comes. Yet few aspects of the relationship between human society and the environment get so little attention. This book, an environmental history of soils, explores some of the enormous variety in the ways that people have worked with, thought about, damaged and restored soils. It also shows some of the ways in which soils, their properties and their histories have influenced human affairs. Soils are the substrate of human society: as this book shows, from northern Europe to southern Africa, and from Australia to Meso-America,, from the palaeolithic to the present, their history is our history. This collection covers new ground. It is unique in terms of combining geomorphology, archeaology and history as well as in the choice of its study regions. The chapters contribute over a great geographical span to a fuller understanding of the intricate web of relations between soils and humans.

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• Verlag: White Horse Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1874267529
• ISBN 13: 9781874267522
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
• Herausgeber: McNeill Professor J. R., Winiwarter Verena