The Human Footprint
A Global Environmental History
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Beschreibung
Updated to reflect the most recent research, the second edition of The Human Footprint expands upon Anthony N. Penna's multidisciplinary global history of Earth from its beginnings to the present day. While initial chapters focus on "big history," placing human history within a cosmic framework, succeeding chapters reveal the great natural and human transformations that have shaped civilization over millennia. Utilizing the most up-to-date research from geologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, economists, historians, and others, individual chapters expand upon single topics within broader themes relating to Earth's history and human origins; mass migrations and the rise of agriculture; nutrition and population growth and the rise of cities, manufacturing, and industry; world trade, mass consumption, and new world ecology; modes of energy use, and more. New research into the world's warming climate serves to reinforce the fragile nature of world/human history interdependencies. Timely and essential, The Human Footprint provides illuminating insights into the future of our planet by revealing the interconnectedness of humans and nature throughout our past.
The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History, Second Edition, presents a multidisciplinary global history of Earth from its origins to the present day.
* Provides a comprehensive, global, multidisciplinary history of the planet from its earliest origins to the present era
* Draws on the most recent research in geology, climatology, evolutionary biology, archaeology, anthropology, history, demography and the social and physical sciences
* Features the latest research findings on planetary history, human evolution, the green agricultural revolution, climate change, global warming and the nature of world/human history interdependencies
* Offers in-depth analyses of topics relating to human evolution, agriculture, population growth, urbanization, manufacturing, consumption, industrialization, and fossil fuel dependency.
Autor*in
Anthony N. Penna
Themen in »The Human Footprint«
Environmental Studies Environmental Studies Special Topics Geschichte History History Special Topics Spezialthemen Geschichte Spezialthemen Umweltforschung Umwelt Umweltforschung Weltgeschichte World History