Contents
| | 1Introduction: history and ecology | 1 |
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| | Community ecology and history | 6 |
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| | The Serengeti: kinship of humans with other forms of life | 14 |
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| | Kakadu, Australia: the primal tradition | 19 |
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| | Hopi, Arizona: agriculture in the spirit of the land | 22 |
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| | 3The great divorce of culture and nature | 30 |
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| | The Uruk Wall: Gilgamesh and urban origins | 33 |
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| | The Nile Valley: ancient Egypt and sustainability | 38 |
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| | Tikal: the collapse of classic Maya culture | 42 |
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| | Athens: mind and practice | 59 |
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| | Xian: Chinese environmental problems and solutions | 66 |
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| | Rome: environmental reasons for the decline and fall | 73 |
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| | Florence and the European scene: the barriers to growth | 86 |
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| | Tahiti, Hawai’i, New Zealand: Polynesian impacts on island ecosystems | 93 |
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Publication information:
Book title: An Environmental History of the World:Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life.
Contributors: J. Donald Hughes - Author.
Publisher: Routledge.
Place of publication: London.
Publication year: 2001.
Page number: vii.
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