A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations - Couverture souple

Ponting, Clive

 
9780143038986: A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
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ISBN 10 : 0143038982 ISBN 13 : 9780143038986
Editeur : Penguin Books, 2007

Synopsis

Clive Ponting?s original and provocative history of human civilization?now in a thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated edition

Years ahead of its time, Clive Ponting captivated readers with A Green History of the World, his study of great civilizations and the causes of their fall. Using the Roman empire as its central example, this classic work reveals how overexpansion and the exhaustion of available natural resources have played key roles in the collapse of all great cultures in human history. With an argument of urgent relevance to our modern society, A Green History of the World offers a provocative and illuminating view of human history and its relationship to the environment.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Clive Ponting?s original and provocative history of human civilization?now in a thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated edition

Years ahead of its time, Clive Ponting captivated readers with A Green History of the World, his study of great civilizations and the causes of their fall. Using the Roman empire as its central example, this classic work reveals how overexpansion and the exhaustion of available natural resources have played key roles in the collapse of all great cultures in human history. With an argument of urgent relevance to our modern society, A Green History of the World offers a provocative and illuminating view of human history and its relationship to the environment.

Biographie de l'auteur

Clive Ponting was until recently Reader in Politics and International Relations at the University of Wales, Swansea. Available in Pimlico are his most recent books: A New Green History Of The World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations; Gunpowder: From the Alchemists of China to the Battlefields of Europe; The Pimlico History of the Twentieth Century; World History: A New Perspective; Thirteen Days: The Road to the First World War; and The Crimean War. He recently took early retirement and now lives on a small Greek island where he is creating a Mediterranean garden and cultivating olives.

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Éditeur
Penguin Books
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0143038982
ISBN 13 
9780143038986
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Nombre de pages
464
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ISBN 10 :  0099516683 ISBN 13 :  9780099516682
Editeur : Vintage, 2007
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