ISBN:
0585441812
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9780585441818
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9781474472609
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1474472605
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1474400574
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9781474400572
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 419 pages)
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illustrations, maps
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Simmons, I.G. (Ian Gordon), 1937- Environmental history of Great Britain
Keywords:
Nature Effect of human beings on
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History
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Human geography History
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Environment
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Homme - Influence sur la nature - Grande-Bretagne - Histoire
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SOCIAL SCIENCE - Human Geography
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SCIENCE - Environmental Science
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Human geography
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Nature - Effect of human beings on
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Milieu
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History
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Great Britain
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Life and Environmental Sciences
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History
Abstract:
Of environmental change involving humans. p. 45
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Hunter-gatherers and fisherfolk: 10,000 to 5000 BP -- Shafts of light: agriculturalists -- Closed and open systems, AD 550 to AD 1700 -- Building Jerusalem: the Eighteenth Century -- Industrial growth: material empires, 1800-1914 -- 'A fit country for heroes', 1914-50 -- A post-industrial world, 1950 to the present -- Experience and meaning -- Appendix 1: The changing environment from the air.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-407) and index
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English
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