Understanding The Cultural Landscape - Couverture rigide

Wallach, Bret

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1593851200 ISBN 13 : 9781593851200

Editeur : Guilford Publications, 2005

Synopsis

This compelling book offers a fresh perspective on how the natural world has been imagined, built on, and transformed by human beings throughout history and around the globe. Coverage ranges from the earliest societies to preindustrial China and India, from the emergence in Europe of the modern world to the contemporary global economy. The focus is on what the places we have created say about us: our belief systems and the ways we make a living. Also explored are the social and environmental consequences of human activities, and how conflicts over the meaning of progress are reflected in today's urban, rural, and suburban landscapes. Written in a highly engaging style, this ideal undergraduate-level human geography text is illustrated with over 25 maps and 70 photographs.

Note: Visit www.greatmirror.com for many additional photographs by Bret Wallach related to the themes addressed in this book.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bret Wallach teaches geography at the University of Oklahoma. A MacArthur Fellow, he has previously published At Odds with Progress: Conservation and Americans and Losing Asia: Modernization and the Culture of Development. He is presently working on a book about the rural landscapes of Eurasia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Guilford Publications
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1593851200
• ISBN 13: 9781593851200
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 406
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible