Japan: An Environmental History, Paperback - Conrad Totman

Reducere. From the outset, society in Japan has been shaped by its environmental context. The lush green mountainous archipelago of today supports a populati...

Presents the history of Japan from c 8000 BC to the present day. This title covers a range of subjects, including geology, climate, agriculture, go...

This book examines ecology and culture in the Carpathian Mountains, with a focus on Ukraine's Galician Hutsul region from 1848 to 1939.Publisher: L...

An Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome - Lukas Thommen

Reducere. As the very first book of its kind, An Environmental History of Medieval Europe provides a highly original survey of medieval relations with the na...

Reducere. DescriptionWestern Oregon's Willamette Basin, once a vast wilderness, became a thriving community almost overnight. When Oregon territory was opene...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. A corrective to the contemporary idea that Buddhism has always been an environmentally friendly religionIn the current popular imagination, Buddhis...

The former Soviet empire spanned eleven time zones and contained half the world's forests; vast deposits of oil, gas, and coal; various ores; major...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mark FiegeForeword by: William CrononIn the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes t...

Reducere. For the last twenty years, The Destruction of the Bison has been an essential work in environmental history. Andrew C. Isenberg offers a concise an...

Reducere. From the arrival of Henry Hudson's Half Moon in the estuarial waters of what would come to be called New York Harbor to the 2006 agreement that lai...

The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his s...

DescriptionPresented here is the final and most coherent section of a sweeping classic work in environmental history, The Unending Frontier. The Wo...

Reducere. In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent important cultural, economic, and ecological transformation...

The Earth has entered a new age--the Anthropocene--in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth centu...

Reducere. How did the Civil War and the emancipation of four million slaves reconfigure the natural landscape in the South and the farming economy dependent ...

What is environmental history? It is a kind of history that seeks understanding of human beings as they have lived, worked, and thought in relation...

The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing ...

Water in North American Environmental History offers twenty-five cases studies that explore the range of uses and perceptions of water throughout C...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 454Collection: Rewriting HistoriesPublication date: 2012Dimensions: 158 x 229 x 25Cover type: Paper...

Since the appearance of Homo sapiens on the planet hundreds of thousands of years ago, human beings have sought to exploit their environments, extr...

From pre-Columbian times to the environmental justice movements of the present, women and men frequently responded to the environment and environme...

For as long as there have been nations, there has been an "international"--a sphere of cross-border relations. But for most of human history, this ...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Wildlife of Japan Mark BrazilIllustration(s): 600+ color photos, illus., and mapsNumber of pages: 3...

An Introduction to Japanese Society provides a highly readable introduction to Japanese society by internationally renowned scholar Yoshio Sugimoto...

Reducere. An illustrated history of tattooing in Japan. Covers from stone age tattooing up through the Edo Era. Rare illustrations of tattooing from the Edo ...

Reducere. Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. As David Soll shows in his finely observed history of the nation...

Reducere. DescriptionRichard Conrad grew up in Washington, D.C., studied engineering and economics at Vanderbilt University, earned a master's degree in Econ...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Keith O'BrienNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 167 x 243 x 43Cover type: HardbackRede...

Reducere. Neurotic Beauty is a remarkable reevaluation of Japan's role in the modern world. It includes a new assessment of the events leading up to the drop...

Japan, 1972 takes an early-seventies year as a vantage point for understanding how Japanese society came to terms with cultural change. Yoshikuni I...

Reducere. DescriptionValley of the Shadow joins a fraternity of published first-person accounts of the fall of the Philippines, including the surrender of Co...

DescriptionThis book discusses the architectural influence that Japan and the West have had on each other during the last 150 years. While the rece...

Reducere. Japan's post-World War II "economic miracle" is well-known and much discussed, as is the collapse of the "bubble economy" and the almost decade lon...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Japan, then keep reading...Japan is one of the most adaptable countries in the world. It is capa...

Reducere. Rights of Nature Rights of Nature Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics a History of Environmental Ethics a History of Environmental ...

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