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Author: J. Donald Hughes
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 17.00cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 24.50cm
Weight: 0.520kg
ISBN: 9780415481502
ISBN 10: 0415481503
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 03 August 2009
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""This would be an important addition to shelves of all scholars engaged with environmental research, whether in the humanities or sciences. It augments the recent surge of titles offering a global view of environmental history."" - Frederick S. Milton, Newcastle University"
This book is vintage Hughes: pellucid prose, a clear sense of moral purpose, and stunning historical reach across several millenia and around the world. It is quite simply the best introduction to world environment history yet written. <br>-J.R. McNeill, Georgetown University <br> This slender book takes on the biggest theme facing humankind in the twenty-first century--the global environment challenge that has been centuries in the making. The book is impressive in scope, clear and readable in prose, and compassionate. It represents a brand-new perspective on history, one that is an engaging as a good travel narrative and very much needed. <br>-Donald Worster, University of Kansas <br> Don Hughes has written a lively account of his first-hand experience--with the cultures and nature of so many places and with so many original sources through time...This timely and well-written work will be of value in teaching and for the scholar seeking gateways into different continents and times. <br>-Dr. Verena Winiwarter, Vienna University <br> In this scholarly work Donald Hughes harmonizes human history with the environment. He makes us realize that our community, in the deepest sense, is the community of life. <br>-M.D. Subash Chandran, Dr. Baliga College, Kumta, India <br> [The author's] journeys and experiences provide a unique interpretation of environmental history... This reviewer enthusiastically applauds Hughes' interpretive work on human history from an ecological perspective.. <br>-The Historian <br>
Author Information
J. Donald Hughes is John Evans Distinguished Professor of History, University of Denver. Author of What is Environmental History? (Polity, 2006), The Mediterranean: An Environmental History (ABC-CLIO, 2005), and Pan's Travail: Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans (Johns Hopkins, 1994), he is a founding member of the American and European Societies for Environmental History and past editor of Environmental History
