Humans versus Nature
A Global Environmental History
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 5 March 2020
- ISBN 9780190864712
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages624 pages
- Size 160x243x57 mm
- Weight 913 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 22 illustrations 9
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Short description:
Humans versus Nature relates the history of the global environment from the Stone Age to the present, emphasizing the adversarial relations between human societies and the natural environment in all regions of the world and tracing the current environmental crisis to its roots in the deep past.
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Since the appearance of Homo sapiens on the planet hundreds of thousands of years ago, human beings have sought to exploit their environments, extracting as many resources as their technological ingenuity has allowed. As technologies have advanced in recent centuries, that impulse has remained largely unchecked, exponentially accelerating the human impact on the environment.
Humans versus Nature tells a history of the global environment from the Stone Age to the present, emphasizing the adversarial relationship between the human and natural worlds. Nature is cast as an active protagonist, rather than a mere backdrop or victim of human malfeasance. Daniel R. Headrick shows how environmental changes--epidemics, climate shocks, and volcanic eruptions--have molded human societies and cultures, sometimes overwhelming them. At the same time, he traces the history of anthropogenic changes in the environment--species extinctions, global warming, deforestation, and resource depletion--back to the age of hunters and gatherers and the first farmers and herders. He shows how human interventions such as irrigation systems, over-fishing, and the Industrial Revolution have in turn harmed the very societies that initiated them.
Throughout, Headrick examines how human-driven environmental changes are interwoven with larger global systems, dramatically reshaping the complex relationship between people and the natural world. In doing so, he roots the current environmental crisis in the deep past.
Those of us who teach world environmental history will find this a nearly essential textbook, yet the work is valuable to anyone teaching world history. It may allow whole new environmental units to be placed easily into an existing course framework. At the very least, practitioners can consult chapters to incorporate specific examples or ideas more fully into their surveys. In the end, Headrick's work is the best textbook on global environmental history to date.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Global Environmental History
Chapter 1 The Foragers
Chapter 2 Farmers and Herders
Chapter 3 Early Civilizations
Chapter 4 Eurasia in the Classical Age
Chapter 5 Medieval Eurasia and Africa
Chapter 6 The Invasion of America
Chapter 7 The Transformation of the Old World
Chapter 8 The Transition to an Industrial World
Chapter 9 The West and the Non-West in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 10 War and Developmentalism in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 11 Peace and Consumerism in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 12 Climate Change and Climate Wars
Chapter 13 Plundering the Oceans
Chapter 14 Extinctions and Survivals
Chapter 15 Environmentalism
Epilogue One Past, Many Futures
Notes
Index
