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Author Simmons, I. G. (Ian Gordon), 1937-

Title Changing the face of the earth : culture, environment, history / I.G. Simmons
Published Oxford, UK ; New York, NY, USA : B. Blackwell, 1989

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Description xii, 487 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Preface to the First Edition. -- Preface to the Second Edition. -- Acknowledgements. -- Units and References. -- 1. General Introduction. -- 2. Organizing Concepts. -- 3. Hunter-Gatherers. -- 4. The Development of Agriculture. -- 5. Advanced Solar Agriculture. -- 6. Industrialism: Energy after the Nineteenth Century. -- 7. Industrialisation: the Impact on Related Systems. -- 8. New Energies, New Thinking?. -- 9. Meditations. -- Index
Analysis Agriculture and food
Environment Influence of man history
Environment Influence of man, history
Global data
Global population
History
Industrialisation
Nuclear energy
Overseas item
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [397]-445
Includes index
Subject Human ecology -- History.
Human ecology.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- History.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
LC no. 88005031
ISBN 0631140492
0631163514 (paperback)